We place senior finance leaders, SAP S/4HANA consultants, and data & AI engineers into PE-backed and transformation-driven businesses where hiring decisions carry real consequence.
Charja works with PE-backed portfolios, mid-market companies, and organisations undergoing transformation — where getting the hire right first time is the difference between value creation and value destruction.
"We don't just find candidates — we evaluate context, consequence, and cultural alignment."
We don't just match CVs to job specs. We evaluate people, context, culture, and consequence.
AI surfaces signals. Humans make decisions.
Charja supports organisations where hiring mistakes carry real financial, operational, and reputational consequence. We operate where judgment matters more than volume.
What this means in practice
Every candidate has been briefed on the operational reality, understands the stakeholder context, and has the track record to back it up. You interview fewer people. They're the right people.
We've placed CFOs into PE portfolios, SAP architects into S/4HANA migrations, and data engineers into AI-driven platforms. We know what "good" looks like because we understand the work, not just the job spec.
We understand that senior hires are made under pressure, uncertainty, and scrutiny. Our process reflects that reality. We don't add complexity – we reduce it.
We place interim and permanent CFOs, Finance Directors, and senior finance leaders into PE-backed portfolios and mid-market businesses undergoing transformation.
Interim-first. We understand that PE-backed businesses move fast. When a deal completes, finance leadership needs to be in place within weeks, not months. Our interim bench gives you immediate access to proven operators who have delivered in PE environments — while we find the permanent hire in parallel.
No volume recruitment. No transactional shortcuts. Just long-term partnerships with investors and businesses that need to get the hire right first time.
Portfolio companies scaling through acquisition, buy-and-build, or organic growth
Companies moving from founder-led to institutional governance and investor-readiness
Businesses preparing for sale, IPO, or secondary buyout — where finance must be investor-ready
We work on both interim and permanent placements.
Immediate senior finance leadership for PE-backed businesses
The most critical hire in the first 100 days after an acquisition.
Our interim CFOs have delivered in PE environments — they understand value creation plans, investor reporting, and the pace that private equity demands.
They are not a stopgap. They are a strategic solution: stabilising the finance function, building capability, and bridging to the permanent hire.
Before we search, we clarify what you actually need:
Strategic finance leadership for complex, high-stakes environments
We place permanent CFOs and FDs who have already navigated PE complexity — portfolio companies, transformation environments, high-stakes governance — and can deliver strategic finance alongside operational grip.
The worst CFO brief we hear: "We need someone to take stress off me."
Stress doesn't disappear. It just moves. The question isn't whether they can handle pressure — it's whether they are solving the right problem. Hire the wrong archetype and you'll feel relief for a month. Then it gets expensive.
Senior finance operators building capability for scale
Senior finance operators who can run the function day-to-day while building capability for scale.
Strong on systems, controls and team leadership, and pragmatic about what "good enough" looks like at different growth stages.
We place specialist SAP contractors into S/4HANA migration programmes, cloud modernisation projects, and enterprise transformation — where the 2027 ECC deadline means the right people need to be in place now, not next quarter.
SAP migrations are complex, multi-year programmes that require deep functional and technical expertise. The supply of experienced S/4HANA consultants cannot keep pace with demand, particularly in transformation-critical modules. We specialise in finding the consultants your programme actually needs — not the ones who happen to be available.
We focus on contractor placements for active SAP programmes. No generalist IT recruitment. No CV blasting. Just targeted delivery of qualified SAP professionals, technically assessed and ready to start.
Portfolio companies migrating from legacy ERP to S/4HANA as part of value creation plans
Supporting SIs with overflow demand and specialist module expertise for live programmes
Mid-market and large enterprises running their own S/4HANA programmes and needing direct contractor support
We work on contractor placements for active SAP programmes.
Core module expertise for S/4HANA migration and optimisation
Experienced consultants across the full suite of SAP functional modules — FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, and beyond.
We source contractors who have genuine S/4HANA experience, not just legacy ECC knowledge, and who understand the differences that matter in a conversion project.
The bottleneck roles that define whether your programme delivers
These are the hardest SAP roles to fill — the modules where demand far outstrips supply and where a vacancy can delay an entire programme.
We invest disproportionate sourcing effort here because this is where clients need us most.
Solution design, integration, and data migration leadership
The senior technical roles that set the architectural direction for the entire programme.
Solution Architects, Integration Architects, Data Migration Leads, and Basis specialists who have delivered S/4HANA transformations end-to-end.
We place Data Engineers, ML Engineers, AI Engineers, and MLOps specialists into businesses building production-grade data platforms and AI systems — not proof-of-concepts, but infrastructure that runs at scale.
Our practice is led by a recruiter who builds AI platforms. That means when we speak to a Data Engineer about their Databricks pipeline or an ML Engineer about their MLOps setup, we're not reading from a script — we're having a technical conversation. That changes the quality of who we attract and how accurately we assess them.
No generalist tech recruitment. No CV spray. Just technically credible contractor sourcing for data and AI teams that need people who can build, not just talk.
Portfolio companies building data platforms for analytics, reporting, and AI-driven decision-making
VC-backed and growth-stage businesses with AI at the core of their product or operations
Mid-market and large businesses migrating to cloud data platforms, building lakehouses, and deploying ML at scale
We work on contractor placements. Typical engagements 3–12 months.
The foundation of every data platform and AI initiative
Data Engineers who build and maintain the pipelines, warehouses, and lakehouses that make everything else possible.
We source contractors with hands-on experience across Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Kafka, and the major cloud platforms — and we can technically assess the difference between someone who lists these tools and someone who has built production systems with them.
Production machine learning and AI system builders
ML Engineers and AI Engineers who deploy models into production, build inference pipelines, and create the systems that turn research into business value.
We focus on engineers with production experience — not just notebook prototypers — who understand MLOps, model serving, monitoring, and the full lifecycle.
The infrastructure that makes AI reliable and scalable
MLOps Engineers and platform specialists who bridge data engineering and machine learning — building the CI/CD pipelines, model registries, feature stores, and monitoring systems that turn experimental ML into production-grade AI.
One of the scarcest skill sets in UK tech.
We learn your business, not just the job spec.
Targeted outreach to proven operators, not database blasts.
We qualify for capability, not just credentials.
The right person, first time.
Whether you need an interim CFO for a PE acquisition, SAP consultants for an S/4HANA migration, or data engineers to build your AI platform — we should talk.
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