3 Things You Can Do When Your CFO Search Goes Off the Rails
Executive search is, at its heart, a service business – you’re paying for the specialized knowledge, experience, and skill of the recruiter you’re hiring.
Executive search is, at its heart, a service business – you’re paying for the specialized knowledge, experience, and skill of the recruiter you’re hiring.
My practice specializes in recruiting CFOs for owner-managed businesses. And for the majority of the searches I conduct, the title CFO usually translates as
Any finance executive who’s had experience with large corporations and who’s also worked for an owner-managed company will tell you that they are two
Understanding the Role of a CFO Hiring your first Chief Financial Officer is a pivotal moment for your business, especially if you’re an owner-manager
There’s an old saying that goes: “Everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” That line could also apply to recessions
There’s a very common arc to the story of how most owner-managers come to decide to hire their first CFO. Accounting 101 Pretty much
My practice specializes in recruiting for the top financial position for Canadian, mid-market, primarily owner-managed companies. I work with companies as small as $5MM
The career path to owner-manager typically follows one of three arcs. They have a background in sales, they have a background in operations/engineering, or
Let’s imagine that you’re the CFO of a largish, successful, auto parts manufacturer located somewhere in Markham. You’ve recently done a bit of reorganization
Every now and again I’ll have a finance executive ring me up and ask me to find them a new position when they’ve only
Job Description: Solve My Problem Take a look at the various CFO job descriptions you see on LinkedIn. There may be a couple that
If you’re an owner-manager who needs to recruit a CFO, it will most likely be for one of these three reasons: You already have
I have a very specialized practice recruiting CFOs for small and mid-sized Canadian companies. The majority of my clients are owner-managed, and the revenue
If you are fortunate enough to own a company with revenues of $250 million, you may have issues with your CFO but you’re not
Every big company used to be a small company. Some of the biggest names in business, Apple, Amazon, Disney and Harley Davidson (among others),
As an owner-manager, you should pose the question as What exactly should my controller do? What your controller actually does and what they should
Your Director of Finance quit a few weeks ago and you’ve done the usual referral/job posting dance and have come up short. So you
Owner-managers who are thinking of either upgrading their head of finance or hiring a qualified professional to head up the accounting function for the
When you started the CFO recruitment process, you put a lot of thought into what you wanted to accomplish by hiring for this position.
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