Hayley Hill
With over two decades of accounting experience, Hayley Hill, has driven financial accuracy in firms ranging from large corporations to scaling startups, helping ensure acquisitions, secure safe passage through first-year audits, and more.
To begin her accounting career, Hayley joined a top 20 accounting firm to gain her AAT qualifications while working in audit. Three years later, she took on an entirely new challenge by joining a small practice in North Wales where she completed her ACA exams. As only the seventh member of the company, Hayley suddenly had a lot more responsibility both in terms of volume and variety.
During her time in North Wales, she managed business and personal taxes, stat accounts, account preparation, and more for a diverse group of clients. Her hands-on, personal approach ensured the oversight required for accurate accounts and high customer satisfaction. It also gave her the necessary exposure to take on an Outsourcing Accounts Senior role at a top 10 firm, RSM, in 2010. Back in Reading with RSM, over 8 years Hayley assumed responsibility for numerous accounts and was also influential in internal development by helping guide junior members’ careers.
Growth from the ground up turned out to be Hayley’s occupational passion, and it prompted her to join a local startup, Qmee. As their first finance hire, Hayley once again found herself shouldering a lot of responsibility, but in under two years, she began to grow her team. With Qmee being on an upward trajectory, Hayley’s position of heading up the finance department became pivotal as the company moved through significant milestones, being acquired by a private equity firm in March 2021 and then another acquisition in June 2022.
Enjoying the challenge of growing finance teams at firms with high ambition and potential, Hayley joined Aurum Solutions late in 2023 as a Financial Controller. Due to her love for the sea – which she regularly takes trips to in her campervan – some rumour that she joined Aurum just for its colour scheme of blues, purples, and greens, but really she loves the unique financial challenges of growing firms.