Finance and accounting talent. Placed by people who've done the job.
For hiring managers and finance professionals, fit is everything. We recruit the way a CFO hires — because that's who runs our searches.
CFO-led · 15+ years in finance leadership.
Practice areas
We have closed the books, built the forecast, defended the tax position, and presented to the board. That is how we know which candidates can do it too. Six practice areas, one standard.
Why Schwartzman Group
Every search is run by a finance executive with 15+ years as CFO across healthcare, SaaS, e-commerce, logistics, and manufacturing. We know what the role demands because we have carried it.
Every candidate is assessed on the actual work — close cycles, reconciliations, forecast models, tax positions — before you see a resume. Keyword matches do not make the shortlist.
U.S. and Canada finance and tax hiring, including candidates fluent in both jurisdictions. If your entity structure crosses the border, your recruiter should too.
For employers
Three ways to hire. One screening standard.
Permanent placements from staff accountant to director. We take a real brief, screen for the work, and send a short list you can interview this week. You pay only when your hire starts.
Learn moreA controller on leave, an audit that needs hands, a system migration with no owner. We place interim and project professionals on a contract or contract-to-hire basis, scoped to the deliverable and the timeline.
Learn moreRetained search for Controller, VP Finance, and CFO. Led personally by a CFO-turned-recruiter who knows what the board will ask, what the lenders will want, and what the team needs.
Learn moreFor candidates
You have spent years getting good at the close, the model, or the return. We match you to roles where that skill is the point, not a line on a checklist.
Insights
The job description says "10 years of experience and an active license." The job needs something else entirely. Here is what to screen for instead.
Read article: What a controller actually needs to know in 2026 — and what hiring managers keep getting wrongThe wrong call costs months. A simple framework for deciding whether the gap in your finance team needs a contract professional or a permanent hire.
Read article: Interim vs. direct hire: how to decide when your finance team is short-staffedFewer graduates, more retirements, and a profession that spent decades making itself unattractive. The shortage is not going away. Your hiring approach has to change.
Read article: The accountant shortage is structural. Here's what it means for your next hire.Salary ranges for staff accountant through CFO, contract rates, and what's moving. Built from real searches and real offers, not scraped job posts.
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