Executive search
FP&A, Audit & Tax Professionals
No postings. No stacks of resumes. No chasing. You choose from a short list of people who have done this before.
No upfront fee. You pay only if you engage someone we present.
Interim Headhunters starts with the work behind this request: This family combines planning and analysis, audit and control, and tax. They sit close together in a finance organization and are frequently grouped in requests, but the people are different.
This is what we do all day: place interim executives, interim managers and contract professionals.
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- The seat is open and the work is piling up on you.
- A job posting brings in hundreds of resumes and none of them have done the job.
- You do not have weeks to screen, chase and schedule.
- You need to know the person can do it before they start, not after.
- No upfront fee
- 2 to 3 vetted consultants per assignment
- Matched to your industry
- You choose
- Interim plus permanent search
FP&A, Audit & Tax Professionals titles we fill
Titles with a page link through to it. The rest are titles we also fill; choose one and we pass it to the form with your request.
- Contract Financial AnalystSpecialist search for Contract Financial Analyst. Discuss the scope, relevant experience and several vetted options. No fee unless you engage someone we present.
- Interim FP&A ManagerSpecialist search for Interim FP&A Manager. Discuss the scope, relevant experience and several vetted options. No fee unless you engage someone we present.
- FP&A ManagerSpecialist search for Interim FP&A Manager. Discuss the scope, relevant experience and several vetted options. No fee unless you engage someone we present.
- Contract Financial ModelerSpecialist search for Contract Financial Modeler. Discuss the scope, relevant experience and several vetted options. No fee unless you engage someone we present.
- Contract Financial Reporting AccountantHire a contract financial reporting accountant for period-end reconciliations, balance sheet integrity, and the preparation of compliant financial statements.
- Contract Internal AuditorSpecialist search for Contract Internal Auditor. Discuss the scope, relevant experience and several vetted options. No fee unless you engage someone we present.
- Contract IT AuditorEngage an IT Auditor to stress-test your control environment, ensure data integrity across enterprise systems and prepare for external reviews.
- IT AuditorEngage an IT Auditor to stress-test your control environment, ensure data integrity across enterprise systems and prepare for external reviews.
- Contract SOX AnalystEngage a Contract SOX Analyst to handle testing, documentation and remediation of internal controls during audit cycles or system implementations.
- SOX AnalystEngage a Contract SOX Analyst to handle testing, documentation and remediation of internal controls during audit cycles or system implementations.
- Contract Forensic AccountantEngage a specialized accountant to trace misappropriated funds, investigate ledger discrepancies, and produce evidence-based reports for internal audits.
- Contract Tax AccountantSpecialist search for Contract Tax Accountant. Discuss the scope, relevant experience and several vetted options. No fee unless you engage someone we present.
- Senior Financial AnalystHire a Senior Financial Analyst to lead budget cycles and variance investigations. We screen for technical model construction and operational reporting skills.
- senior financial analystHire a Senior Financial Analyst to lead budget cycles and variance investigations. We screen for technical model construction and operational reporting skills.
- FP&A AnalystHire a specialist FP&A analyst to manage budget models, perform variance analysis, and bridge gaps between technical data and operational decision making.
- FP&A analystHire a specialist FP&A analyst to manage budget models, perform variance analysis, and bridge gaps between technical data and operational decision making.
- Budget AnalystBudget analysts create models and explain performance variances. We identify specialists who build durable, transparent, and accurate financial reports.
- budget analystBudget analysts create models and explain performance variances. We identify specialists who build durable, transparent, and accurate financial reports.
- Business Finance AnalystFind a Business Finance Analyst to manage budgeting, variance reporting and BI model maintenance for your specific operational cycles.
- Commercial Finance AnalystHire a Commercial Finance Analyst to own budget models, variance reporting, and BI tool integration without training overhead.
- Pricing AnalystEngage a specialized pricing analyst for margin modeling, competitive price analysis and variance reporting.
- pricing analystEngage a specialized pricing analyst for margin modeling, competitive price analysis and variance reporting.
- Finance ManagerHire a Finance Manager to stabilize reporting, lead the annual budget cycle, and improve financial modeling standards for your executive team.
- Planning ManagerHire a Planning Manager to oversee your annual budget and monthly forecasting. We ensure your candidate builds credible reporting for leadership and lenders.
- Senior FP&A ManagerEvaluate and hire a Senior FP&A Manager to control your budget cycles, direct your analyst team, and deliver accurate reporting for stakeholders.
- Financial Modeling ConsultantFinancial Modeling Consultants provide the structural accuracy needed for sensitive capital decisions, audits and transactional deal flow.
- Three-Statement ModelerHire a Three-Statement Modeler to build auditable financial logic. Avoid errors with experts who prioritize structural integrity and clear decision outputs.
- Transaction ModelerEngage a transaction modeler to build auditable, three-statement, debt, and returns models that withstand rigorous diligence and third-party scrutiny.
- Real Estate Financial ModelerHire a specialist real estate financial modeler to build auditable debt, equity, and asset cash flow models for institutional transaction requirements.
- Senior Internal AuditorFind and hire a Senior Internal Auditor to execute SOX testing and operational audits. Our vetting process ensures objective, audit-standard documentation.
- SOX TesterHire a skilled SOX tester to handle control testing and process walkthroughs. We provide auditors who produce clean workpapers for immediate compliance.
- Interim Tax ManagerHire an interim tax manager to handle complex filing seasons, ASC 740 provisions, and multistate nexus compliance without the overhead of permanent hiring.
- tax managerHire an interim tax manager to handle complex filing seasons, ASC 740 provisions, and multistate nexus compliance without the overhead of permanent hiring.
- Tax Season AccountantHire experienced tax accountants for seasonal filing needs. We verify technical proficiency in return preparation, ASC 740, and multistate compliance.
- Sales & Use Tax SpecialistHire a Sales and Use Tax Specialist for immediate relief during filing seasons, managing complex nexus thresholds and active audit notices.
- Tax Provision SpecialistHire a Tax Provision Specialist to handle your ASC 740 calculations, deferred tax assets, and complex multi-state income tax compliance during seasonal peaks.
- tax provision specialistHire a Tax Provision Specialist to handle your ASC 740 calculations, deferred tax assets, and complex multi-state income tax compliance during seasonal peaks.
- treasury analystHire a treasury analyst for cash forecasting, banking operations and debt compliance. We focus on technical modeling and operational liquidity.
- SEC accountantHire an SEC accountant for budget models, variance analysis, and audit readiness. We ensure technical rigor in financial reporting and compliance.
- sales and use tax specialistHire a contract sales and use tax specialist to handle state-specific filings, audit defense and compliance reconciliations during periods of high growth.
- Contract Senior Financial AnalystEngage a Contract Senior Financial Analyst for precise budget management and variance reporting. We provide vetted specialists for immediate integration.
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Three disciplines, three different searches
This family combines planning and analysis, audit and control, and tax. They sit close together in a finance organization and are frequently grouped in requests, but the people are different. A planning professional builds forecasts, models and management reporting. An audit professional tests whether controls and records can be relied on. A tax professional handles filings, provisions and positions with authorities.
Decide which discipline you need before anything else. If you tell us you need a finance person for the audit, we need to know whether you mean someone to prepare for the external audit, someone to run internal audit, or someone to support an investigation. Each leads to a different pool.
Many requests span two disciplines, such as forecasting for a lender and control testing for an investor. Splitting them lets us find strong people in each instead of a compromise who is average at both.
Manager or analyst
An interim FP&A manager owns the planning cycle, the relationship with business leaders and the reports the owner relies on. A contract financial analyst or modeler builds specific outputs under direction. The manager shapes what is asked. The analyst answers it.
If your planning is weak because nobody is accountable for it, you need the manager. If you have a clear question, such as a model for a financing or a pricing study, an analyst or financial modeler can deliver it. A modeler in particular should be able to explain the assumptions and leave a structure others can use.
Reporting accountants sit between finance and external reporting. They prepare statements, disclosures and supporting schedules. They are different from analysts and need a formal accounting background.
Technical differences in audit and control
Internal audit, IT audit, SOX analysis and forensic accounting are separate fields. Internal auditors plan and perform reviews of processes and report to a committee or senior leader. IT auditors examine access, change management and system controls. SOX analysts document and test controls for public company reporting. Forensic accountants investigate suspected misstatement or misconduct and need discipline about evidence and confidentiality.
These differences matter because an excellent internal auditor may not know system controls, and a forensic specialist may have little patience for routine testing. State the framework you use, the scale of the organization and who the work reports to.
Independence is an important point. An auditor who reports to the person being reviewed cannot do the job properly. Tell us the reporting line you intend, and we will look at candidates comfortable with it.
Tax: provision, compliance and indirect
Tax is not one skill. Income tax compliance prepares returns and supports estimates. Tax provision calculates the tax expense and deferred balances in the financial statements. Sales and use tax deals with taxability, exemption and filings across jurisdictions. A tax manager reviews and decides positions.
Choose by the problem. A backlog of returns needs a preparer. An audit by an authority needs someone who can handle correspondence and support positions. A new state registration needs an indirect specialist. A change in structure needs a person who can advise, not only prepare.
Name the entity types and the jurisdictions involved. These facts decide whether a candidate has relevant experience, and they change the pool more than the title does.
How we screen and who we look at
For analysts and modelers we draw on contract finance professionals and people between permanent roles. For managers we look at former planning leads, controllers who built planning functions and finance leaders who stepped back from larger roles. For audit and tax we consider public accounting alumni, in house specialists and independent practitioners.
We screen with work samples described in conversation, not just resumes. We ask how a model was built and checked, what a finding looked like and how it was reported, how a tax position was supported. We look for people who can explain their work to someone who does not share their training.
We also check that they are comfortable with your tools and your reporting line. You see several options and make the choice.
Dependencies and common briefing mistakes
These functions depend on accounting operations for clean data, on business leaders for assumptions and on the owner or board for decisions. Planning without access to operating leaders produces numbers nobody believes. Audit without access to records produces nothing. Tax without complete books produces estimates.
The common mistakes are mixing disciplines in one title, omitting reporting lines, failing to name tools, and asking for analysis without saying what decision it supports. Another is asking for an auditor who is also a friendly adviser, two jobs that conflict.
Write the question the work must answer. Write who will read it. If you can do those two things, the rest of the brief follows, and the candidates we present will make more sense to you.
Questions
How do you distinguish between planning and accounting roles?
Planning roles focus on forward-looking models and management reports. Accounting roles prioritize historical data, regulatory filings, and financial statements.
Can I request someone for a project-based audit?
Yes, we source specialists for specific internal or IT audits. Define the specific control framework and reporting requirements in your brief.
How do you handle different tax jurisdictions?
We identify candidates based on their specific experience with your required state or entity types. Please clarify the geographic scope when submitting your request.
What documentation should I provide for an FP&A request?
Include the primary business decisions the analysis supports and your reporting structure. Specify the tools the person must use to access your data.
Are candidates available for both interim and contract roles?
Yes, we present professionals for various durations based on your immediate needs. You review options and decide the scope for each individual.
What replacement terms apply?
We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.
How are recruiting fees agreed?
No upfront fee. You pay only if you engage someone we present. We scope the assignment before quoting; the fee page explains our model.
How soon can we see options?
Availability depends on the assignment and the people who fit it. We qualify interest and commitments rather than promising a shortlist date before the search is scoped.
What if the scope grows?
Discuss new responsibilities before adding them to the engagement. Agree the priorities and record any change to the brief and terms.
Can we extend an engagement?
Discuss what remains unfinished and whether the same responsibility is still needed. Extensions depend on the person's commitments and the agreed engagement terms.
Can the appointment become permanent?
A permanent move can be discussed if both sides want it. Review the future role and the applicable agreement instead of assuming that temporary coverage automatically converts.
How is a confidential search handled?
Tell us what can be disclosed and whom we must not contact. We agree those boundaries before approaching people; do not send sensitive records with an initial brief.
What are the replacement terms?
We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.
What do you not do?
We do not sell job-board reposting as a search or bill hourly for recruiting work. We do not take a retainer unless expressly agreed, and an introduction does not authorize an engagement.
Tell us the seat
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. Share the title, the situation and the timing. A person reads it.
The Six-Step Search
What do you get at each step of the search?
We agree what the person must own before contacting anyone. You see how the search is scoped and which backgrounds we pursue. We speak with candidates about the work before presenting them. The Six-Step Search gives you useful written notes and support through interviews, rather than a pile of applications.
- 01
Scope call
We talk through the seat, the business and what has to change.
You get: A one-page role brief you approve before we search.
- 02
Market map
We work out where people who have done this job actually sit.
You get: A short note on the pool and how we plan to reach it.
- 03
Direct outreach
We approach people who are not looking at job boards.
You get: Progress updates so you are never chasing us.
- 04
Screening
We interview every candidate on the work, not the resume.
You get: Written notes on fit, availability and terms for each person.
- 05
Shortlist and interviews
You meet a short list. We handle the scheduling.
You get: Several vetted options and a debrief after each interview.
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Offer and start
You choose. We help settle terms and the start date.
You get: Confirmed terms, a start date and check-ins after day one.
Tell us who you need.
No upfront fee. You pay only if you engage someone we present.
Send us the seat. We will take it from there.
No upfront fee. You pay only if you engage someone we present.