Callum Laird

Recruitment Consultant

UAE

Callum is a skilled recruiter with a strong background in placing senior finance, tax and treasury professionals within multinational organisations across the Middle East. With a keen eye for talent and a thorough understanding of the regional market, he consistently delivers successful placements that drive growth and success in the finance industry.

CALLUM'S INSIGHTS

What to include on your CV throughout your treasury career

Posted Mai 27, 2026

Contents Share Your CV shapes the first impression you make with hiring managers and recruiters during your job search. In the treasury professional market, employers expect more than a list of processes. They want to see evidence of liquidity management, risk management, financial analysis and sound decision-making across complex environments. Your CV should reflect your ability to […]

Building shared service centre capability: interview with Tim Kwakkenbos, transformation and finance programme leader

Posted Mai 22, 2026

Contents Share Tim Kwakkenbos is a transformation and finance programme leader specialising in large-scale operating model redesign, shared service centre (SSC) implementations and global finance transitions. He’s typically brought in when finance needs to fundamentally change. He has led complex transformations across more than 30 countries for organisations including Nutreco, Carlsberg, FedEx/TNT and AkzoNobel. Known […]

Building modern finance teams: common bottlenecks with data foundations

Posted Mai 15, 2026

Contents Share Finance teams are under growing pressure to deliver faster, more forward‑looking insight, often with data and systems that were never designed for that purpose. Across the market in the Netherlands, finance functions are moving away from manual, backward‑looking processes towards more structured, automated ways of working. But for many teams, progress is constrained […]

In-house tax teams: value creation and best practice in private equity

Posted Mai 7, 2026

Contents Share Private equity firms increasingly expect lean, highly effective in-house tax teams to support value creation within portfolio companies. The narrative has evolved within tax teams from risk management to value protection and furthermore on to value creation. As buyouts become more competitive and valuation sensitivity increases, tax has come to play an even […]