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title: "Internal candidate wins JT CFO role after open recruitment process"
url: https://www.nsfw.info/jt-confirms-hannah-mitchell-permanent-cfo/
published: 2026-11-11T10:00:46+00:00
modified: 2026-11-11T10:00:46+00:00
author: "Chief Editor"
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summary: "JT has appointed Hannah Mitchell as its permanent CFO after a competitive process open to external candidates. She joined the telecoms group in March 2023."
publisher: NSFW (https://www.nsfw.info)
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# Internal candidate wins JT CFO role after open recruitment process

**In brief:** JT has confirmed Hannah Mitchell as its permanent Chief Financial Officer, following a competitive recruitment process that included both internal and external candidates. Mitchell, who joined JT in March 2023 as Head of Finance, had been serving as Interim CFO before securing the role on a permanent basis.

## From Head of Finance to the Top Finance Chair

JT’s appointment of Hannah Mitchell as Chief Financial Officer marks the conclusion of a recruitment process that, in the end, found its answer closer to home. Mitchell joined the telecoms group in March 2023 as Head of Finance and has since risen through the ranks, most recently holding the interim CFO position. In her permanent role, she will sit on JT’s Executive Committee, with oversight of the group’s finance, procurement and legal functions, Channel Eye reports.

It is the kind of internal promotion that companies talk about wanting to make but do not always follow through on, particularly when the brief is opened to external candidates. JT, to its credit, ran a full process and still landed on the person already in the building.

## A Career Built Across Jersey’s Professional Landscape

Mitchell’s CV reads as something of a tour of Jersey’s professional services sector. Before joining JT, she spent seven years at Ogier, working her way through senior finance roles including Group Financial Controller and Head of Financial Governance and Tax. Prior to that, she held several positions at Jersey Post, among them Acting Finance Director and Head of Commercial Finance. She began her career at Ernst and Young LLP.

Since arriving at JT, Mitchell has been closely involved in some of the group’s most significant strategic activity, including the acquisition of Manx Telecom and the financing arrangements that accompanied it. JT’s Chief Executive Officer, Andrew McGrath, described her appointment as “thoroughly deserved”, noting that it reflects “the strength of her experience and the contribution she has already made to JT.”

McGrath added that Mitchell’s progression from Head of Finance to CFO is “a great example of the talent we have within JT and our commitment to giving people opportunities to develop and build meaningful careers here.”

## Mitchell’s Own Words

Mitchell said she is “incredibly proud” to be taking on the role “at such an important point in JT’s development”, and pointed to the culture of internal development as something she values and intends to continue. “One of the things I value most about JT is the opportunity people have to grow, take on new challenges and develop their careers,” she said. “I want to make sure we continue creating those opportunities for others.”

She also struck a forward-looking note, expressing enthusiasm for working with McGrath and the Executive Committee to “build on the strong foundations already in place and deliver the next phase of our strategy.”

## The NSFW Perspective

There is something quietly refreshing about a company that opens a senior role to the market, runs the process properly, and then appoints the person who was already doing the job well. It suggests the interim period was treated as a genuine audition rather than a rubber stamp, which is how it ought to work. For Jersey’s business community, Mitchell’s appointment is also a reminder that the island does produce and retain serious financial talent, even if it sometimes has to compete with the lure of London or Dublin to keep it. JT faces a busy period ahead as it integrates Manx Telecom and pursues whatever comes next in its strategy. Having a CFO who already knows where the bodies are buried, financially speaking, is probably no bad thing.

*Source: [Channel Eye](https://channeleye.media/jt-appoints-chief-financial-officer)*