Your finance, HR, legal and commercial teams keep the business running. They’re also the hires that are easiest to get wrong.
Specialist recruitment for the commercial functions inside every organisation — finance and accounting, HR, legal, sales and marketing — across PNG, Australia and the Pacific.
Our expertise in corporate & commercial
Every organisation runs on the same commercial functions — the people who manage the money, the contracts, the team and the customers. These are the roles that sit inside a mining house, an FMCG business, a hotel group or a government supplier, and they’re often the hardest to hire well, because a generic recruiter doesn’t know what good looks like in a CFO, a head of legal or a commercial manager.
We recruit finance and accounting, HR, legal, sales, marketing and administration roles — nationals and expatriates, from coordinator to C-suite. Drawing on a 132,000+ candidate database across the Asia-Pacific and our in-market team in Port Moresby, we know who’s moving and what they’re worth before the market does.
Note: this page covers commercial functions across all industries. For recruitment within the financial-services sector itself — banks, insurers and superannuation — see Banking, Finance & Insurance.
What We Recruit
Finance & accounting
CFOs and financial controllers, finance business partners and commercial analysts, management and project accountants, financial and tax accountants, internal audit, risk and compliance, AP/AR and payroll
Human resources
HR directors and managers, HR business partners, talent acquisition, learning & development, organisational development and employee relations, remuneration and benefits
Legal, risk & compliance
Heads of legal, legal counsel, company secretaries, compliance specialists, contracts administrators and paralegals
Sales
Sales directors and managers, account and key account managers, business development and sales representatives
Marketing & communications
Heads of marketing, marketing and campaign managers, communications and PR, events and content
Administration & customer service
Office and administration managers, executive assistants, customer service leaders and officers, reception
Your best commercial people are wanted by every other industry at once.
A strong financial controller, a sharp HR business partner, a commercial manager who delivers — these aren’t sector-specific. The same people are courted by mining, banking, FMCG and government suppliers simultaneously, which makes them some of the most counter-offered talent in the market.
We combine deep local knowledge with an international network across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the Philippines, South Africa, India and beyond to find them, and the immigration and payroll capability to get expatriate hires on the ground.
In commercial roles, keeping people is the other half.
Career development — not salary — is the number-one reason PNG professionals say they’d move, and more than half have already been approached by a competitor.
Yet most employers set pay without knowing the market. Every brief we work comes with salary benchmarking built in, drawn from our PNG Salary Guide & Workforce Intelligence Report — so you make the right offer the first time and keep the people you’ve invested in.
From our 2026/27 PNG Salary Guide & Workforce Intelligence Report
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59% of PNG professionals name career development — ahead of salary — as the main reason they’d change employer.
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58% have already been approached by a competitor, and 47% are planning to leave within 12 months.
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Only 24% of employers benchmark salaries against the market — the rest are setting commercial pay blind.
How you work with us
Permanent recruitment
Backed by McQuaig profiling for senior and leadership hires.
Contract & on-hire
Interim finance, project and commercial cover, mobilised fast.
Executive search
Discreet, market-mapped search for senior commercial and C-suite roles.
EOR & payroll
Employ and pay expatriate hires compliantly, with or without a PNG entity.
Building local capability
The next generation of PNG finance, HR and commercial leaders has to be built, not just imported. Through graduate programs, structured development and McQuaig-led succession planning, we help you grow national capability in the functions your business depends on.
The commercial team behind the operation
We’ve placed finance leaders, HR and commercial professionals across some of PNG’s largest employers — from CFOs and financial controllers to HR business partners, company secretaries and commercial managers — national and expatriate, permanent and contract.
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CFO & controller placements
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Finance, HR & legal
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National & expat
The people who run the business behind the business.
Finance, HR, legal and commercial leaders placed across some of PNG's largest employers, national and expatriate.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. This is the finance function inside every other business — CFOs, financial controllers, finance business partners, management accountants and the wider finance team. Recruitment within financial-services institutions sits on our Banking, Finance & Insurance page.
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