Executive Search for CPA Firms
Senior hires who perform and stay.
We help public accounting firms hire leaders and specialists who fit your books, your culture, and your growth plan. We cover roles at every level—Staff through Partner.
- We’ll map the market for your role and show a clear plan.
Who this is for
For CPA and public accounting firms. That includes:
Firm needs
- Firms that need reliable hires at all levels.
- Firms building an executive bench.
- Firms moving toward an ESOP, exit, or partner retirement.
- Firms building an internal leadership team.
We go after every role you need
- Staff & Seniors: Staff accountant; Senior staff.
- Managers: Tax manager; Audit manager; Senior manager.
- Leadership: Director; Practice leader; Partner; CFO.
- Specialties: Estate & trust specialist; CAS lead; Bookkeeping leads.
- Also: Any niche or hybrid role you run
If your firm hires it, we’ll run the search.
What we deliver for CPA firms
We solve the full problem, not just one hire. We build a repeatable hiring system you own. That means:
- A clear, performance-first job brief and an ideal candidate scorecard.
- A living talent pool for the role (active and passive candidates mapped, tracked, and refreshed).
- A recruitment marketing engine that makes your firm easy to find. Career pages, ads, videos, PR, and social media that attract quality candidates.
- Deep vetting and evidence-based measurement. Structured interviews, assessments, reference checks, working interviews, and objective scorecards.
- Onboarding and early performance plans so new hires ramp quickly.
- A dedicated recruiting expert assigned to your firm to run the work and coach your team.
We aim to remove the guesswork.
Our process improves the odds that the person you hire will be the person you keep.
How we build talent pools and attack the market
We cover the market from every angle so you engage every viable candidate.
Employer story and career page
We make your firm easy to find. Clear messaging, testimonial videos, and role pages that speak to tax and audit pros, partners, and practice leaders. Candidates find you. They respond.
Multi-channel inbound marketing
We run coordinated campaigns: SEO and Google Jobs, targeted job boards, LinkedIn content, PR, employee testimonial clips, and email nurture sequences. These channels bring passive candidates into your pipeline and turn website traffic into engaged prospects.
Outbound and sourced pools
We map every local and regional CPA candidate who fits your needs. We mine databases and competitor lists and reach out by phone, email, and LinkedIn. We maintain a living pool of names and contacts. If someone moves, we already know their next move.
Candidate nurture & automation
We follow up. We use automated follow-ups, scheduled touchpoints, and content that keeps top talent warm. This turns one-off interest into a real pool you can pull from when timing aligns.
Metrics and account management
Weekly updates and clear activity logs. Candidate funnels you can read. No guessing. We hold the work to a timeline and show progress.
These steps reflect how we run contained searches using the FACT Driven Hiring system.
Deep vetting — no guesswork, only evidence
We don’t hire on impressions. We measure what matters:
- Structured interviews: We teach and run career-history interviews and score them against the candidate scorecard.
- Assessments: Integrity, behavioral, aptitude, and technical tests. Objective data replaces hype.
- Reference checks: We coach you on the right questions. We help you get honest answers from former supervisors.
- Working interviews: Task-based previews that show how a candidate actually performs on your work.
- Hiring manager coaching: We train your leaders to run great interviews. They learn to probe history, test judgment, and make evidence-based hires.
These layers let us spot red flags early and surface strengths you can act on.
Is CPA executive search right for your firm?
Get a market audit and a clear plan for your next hire. No pressure, no fees.
The long goal: a repeatable hiring machine
We don’t want you to need us forever. We build and install systems you run yourself. That means:
- A recruitment playbook built from the campaign.
- Repeatable job templates and scorecards.
- A candidate pool you control.
- Trained leaders who can interview and onboard with confidence.
- Tools and automation so you never pay a big agency fee for the same work again.
You get the capability to fill the next hard hire without starting over.
Tools and access you get
Every contained and retained campaign includes:
12 months access
to our Discovered.ai recruitment automation software.
World-class training and support after you hire
We stay involved during the ramp and beyond.
A dedicated recruiter
who runs sourcing, initial screening, and all candidate-facing work.
Hiring Tools & Resources we hand you
After the discovery call, you’ll have what you need to move fast:
- Job descriptions designed to drive real results.
- Job ads that lift candidate volume and quality by 10x–50x.
- Candidate scorecards that define the ideal hire.
- Interview guides aligned to the scorecard.
- Integrity, behavioral, aptitude, and skill tests.
- Recruitment marketing plans.
- Career page templates you can launch in minutes.
- Employee referral program setup.
- Candidate nurturing systems and automated follow-up.
- Interview scheduling automation.
- Offer letter templates and onboarding checklists.
- First-year training plans and performance evaluation tools.
Dedicated expert recruiter
Your recruiter will:
- Source top accounting talent.
- Run initial screens and career-history interviews.
- Build and refine job content (descriptions, ads, scorecards, interview guides).
- Lead technical/work-sample and working interviews.
- Manage references, background checks, and candidate handoffs.
- Coach your hiring team on interviewing, selection, and onboarding.
Proof we do the work
Ready to stop guessing?
Book a free consultation.
We’ll audit one role, map the talent pool, and give you a clear campaign plan you can act on. No pressure. Just a clear path.
- We’ll show you how to install a hiring machine for your firm.