Revenue Advisory for FinTech & Financial Services
Strategic Revenue Audit and fractional CRO support for FinTech and InsurTech scale-ups, including investor-readiness work pre-Series B / PE.
Financial services is the second-largest professional sector in the North of England and one of the fastest-growing FinTech regions in the UK. Leeds is the second-largest financial centre in the country by employment, anchored by First Direct (HSBC), Yorkshire Building Society, Lowell, Provident Financial and a deep wider mutual and challenger-bank base. Manchester adds a heavy FinTech and payments cluster, and York anchors the insurance market via Aviva and Hiscox.
FinTech commercial hiring blends regulated-sector experience, deep enterprise sales cycles and increasingly product-led GTM. Evara's partners have placed across challenger banks, payments, lending, wealth-tech and insurance. We understand the specific compliance, risk-and-controls, and regulator-friendly hiring profile required for senior FinTech commercial seats.
FinTech commercial salaries in the North run close to or above mainstream SaaS for equivalent seats. A FinTech CCO in Leeds or Manchester typically earns £130k-£190k base with OTE of £200k-£320k plus equity. Insurance commercial salaries in York and Leeds run slightly below FinTech for equivalent seniority.
How we work
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A two to four-week Strategic Revenue Audit. Interviews across leadership, sales, marketing and CS. Pipeline, forecast and CRM data review. Output is a written diagnostic with a prioritised set of interventions, not a generic playbook.
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We translate the diagnostic into an operating-model design: structure, segmentation, role design, compensation, forecasting cadence, tooling decisions. Reviewed with the CEO and board before any change is made.
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Working back from revenue targets, we model the headcount, ramp, attainment and hiring plan needed to deliver. This becomes the joined-up commercial plan against which decisions are made.
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Where useful, an Evara fractional revenue leader steps in to run the change. Where the in-house team has capacity, we support from alongside. Either way the work gets done, not just recommended.
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Monthly commercial reviews against the plan. Quarterly board pack. Annual re-plan. The advisory engagement winds down as the in-house function gets stronger; it is not designed to be permanent.
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FAQs
Yes. Our partners have placed senior commercial leaders into FCA-regulated FinTech, payments, lending and wealth-tech businesses. Regulator-friendly hiring profiles are a standard part of our brief design.
Leeds is the largest single FinTech commercial market in the North, followed by Manchester. York is the natural home for senior insurance commercial talent.
A structured two to four-week diagnostic of the full revenue function: strategy, structure, process, comp, pipeline, forecast, tooling and people. Output is a written diagnostic with a prioritised set of interventions.
Most fractional CRO engagements run between 4 and 10 days per month. Heavier at the start to install the operating model, lighter once the cadence is in place.
Email Rachel Lunn and the team. We will reply within one working day with a sector-specific market read for the role you have in mind.
Email Rachel Lunn/revenue-advisory/sectors/fintech
Sales recruitment, GTM recruitment and revenue advisory for SMEs UK-wide. We reply within one working day.
Email Rachel Lunn