What Canadian Owner-Managers Need to Know About Recruiting a CFO
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What We Do
As an executive search firm specializing in finance and accounting, we know that hiring a CFO who’s going to help your business prosper is kind of a big deal.
Whether it’s a Director of Finance or VP of Finance, we can ensure that you hire a finance executive who will help you take your company to the next level.
How We Do It
Step One
Analyze the Need
We do a full 360 of your business and every aspect of the position you want to hire for.
Create Preferred Candidate Profile
This is the template of all the technical qualifications, experience and personality traits that you want in your new CFO.
Research and Identify Possible Candidates
We map out all the possible candidates that might fit the preferred candidate profile.
Reach Out to Possible Candidates
We’ll reach out to between 100 and 300 potential candidates on your behalf.
Present Benchmark Candidate
We’ll show you a candidate early in the search who we feel fits your technical and personality profile, to make sure we’re all on the same page.
Fine-tune Search Criteria if Required
If you like what you see, we’ll find three or four more candidates like the benchmark. If you want to make adjustments to the candidate profile, now’s the time.
Interview Long-List Candidates, Osborne Financial Search Team
We’ll interview between fifteen and twenty-five potential candidates.
Step Two
Present Short List of Candidates
We present the best four or five candidates out of the twenty or so we interviewed.
Conduct First Interviews
After you meet the full short list, you pick the two you’d like to take to the next stage.
Move on to Second and Third Interviews
This is where you have any other stakeholders, if any, interview the final one or two candidates.
Offer to Final Candidate
We work with you and the candidate to lay the groundwork for all parts of the offer.
Step Three
Candidate Accepts Offer
Expect your new hire to give three weeks to a month’s notice.
Your new CFO starts to work for you!
Who Does It?
Meet Our Team
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Lance Osborne has been the acknowledged leader in the recruitment of finance and accounting executives for over thirty years. Over the course of his career, Lance has helped hundreds of companies attract top financial talent.
Lance Osborne
Recruiting CFOs since 1985.
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Marilyn started her career in executive search in 2000 and has worked on senior finance searches in industries ranging from manufacturing to food service to distribution to financial services.
Marilyn Osborne CPA CA
Recruiting CFOs since 2000.
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Kelley began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1997, where she obtained her CPA, CA designation. She held numerous positions in the pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods industries.
Kelley Wagner CPA CA
Recruiting CFOs since 2003.
What Our Clients Say
Alan Burger
HR CPA Canada
Having known Lance Osborne in his professional capacity as an executive recruiter for over 20 years, I can attest to the fact that he is one of the best around. Lance has an in-depth knowledge of the industries he services, an entrepreneurial bent and an innate ability to understand client issues and sensitivities and guide them accordingly. He relates well to his clients, is very personable and above all else, provides effective results in a timely manner.
Jeanne Ye
VP Finance & Administration Vet Strategy
My experience working with Jill to find my next position was great. She did an outstanding job in working with me to determine whether the opportunities she presented would be a good professional and cultural fit and she kept me very well informed during the interview and selection process. Jill clearly understood what I was looking for and never tried to pitch me on a position that wasn’t in my strike-zone.
Wendy Lockyer
Principal Accessibil-IT Inc
Having worked with him on both the candidate and client side, it is my experience that more than any other executive recruiter I’ve worked with, Lance really takes the time to understand what the client needs and how the candidates he presents can fulfill those needs. He recognizes it is essential that the candidate fits with the culture and is onside with company objectives. He keeps the process on track and works very hard to ensure that both the client and the candidate make the right decision.
Jeff Dawley
Vice President of Finance BridgePoint
I can recommend Jill without reservation. Jill’s professionalism and market knowledge puts her far ahead of most of other recruiters in the finance and accounting market. She took the time to understand my career goals and only introduced me to opportunities that fit all of the criteria I was looking for.
Terri Smyth
VP Planning OshKosh Canada
I was very impressed with the diligence and insight that Jill invested in my job search. I truly felt that she listened, kept me informed, introduced me to some terrific opportunities and acted as a trusted advisor during the entire process.
Alex Gallacher
MBA, CHRP, SHRP, ICD.D
I’ve worked with Lance many times over the years and have always found him to be very service oriented, straightforward and easy to work with. His professionalism, market knowledge and thorough understanding of what it takes to hire successfully put him miles ahead of most executive recruiters in the finance space.
