Accounting & Financial Search
Financial executives, middle management and individual contributor professionals
Relationships matter
With decades of combined recruiting experience in the Connecticut marketplace, the partners at Vision Search Partners have developed long-term relationships with many of our area’s leading accounting and financial professionals. We recruit for financial executive, middle management and individual contributor positions across the accounting and finance function, including:
- CFOs & Controllers
- Accounting Policy
- SEC & Financial Reporting
- General Accounting
- Financial Planning
- Internal Audit
- Tax
- Treasury
Recent accounting and financial search engagements
Controller
Publicly-Traded Biopharmaceutical Company
The client required a Controller to execute their SEC reporting requirements while building out the financial infrastructure to support significant anticipated growth. VSP arranged interviews with four candidates, including the selected candidate, within three weeks of starting the search. VSP advised both the client and candidate through the offer/acceptance process and helped all parties navigate a complex and unusually long pre-employment period.
Accounting Policy Professionals
Financial Accounting Foundation
VSP recently made its 40th placement with the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF). We are particularly proud of our 20 year relationship with the FAF. Over the years, we have identified and recruited policy professionals from the Big Four, national firms and corporate accounting policy functions to lead projects related to revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, leasing, financial instruments, the conceptual framework, XBRL taxonomy and private company initiatives, among others. We are proud of the significant contributions that the people we placed have made to the standard-setting process at both the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Government Accounting Standards Board.
Chief Financial Officer
Renowned, CT-Based Non-Profit
The client sought a well-rounded financial professional to replace a long-tenured incumbent and oversee the finance, administration, IT, legal and human resources functions. VSP introduced five candidates, all of whom were interviewed. The client would have been comfortable hiring two of the three candidates who advanced to the finalist stage. The entire process, from executed engagement letter to signed offer letter, took 51 calendar days.
Accounting Operations Build-Out
Private Equity-Backed Consumer Goods Company
The client was seeking to close two remote offices and consolidate their North American accounting operations at their Fairfield County headquarters, while integrating three ERP systems into one. The company tasked VSP with replacing more than twenty FPA, financial reporting, financial systems, general accounting and transactional accounting professionals over a two-year period. VSP successfully rebuilt the company’s finance function locally, overcoming challenges which included a historically competitive job market and a zero remote-work policy.