Chief Accounting OfficerRecruitment Case StudyThe ChallengeFind a Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) with multi-entity and multi-country accounting management experience. Our client, a publicly traded $135M business services company, asked for our assistance in recruiting a CAO to manage the accounting team for multiple business units spanning five countries. Our challenge included finding candidates with recent SEC and GAAP experience, strong leadership and management skills, experience managing multiple business entities, a willingness to travel internationally and a willingness to relocate to Los Angeles.
ActionOur team felt the biggest challenge for this search would be finding candidates willing to relocate to Los Angeles due to the cost of living. Initially, we focused on identifying candidates with public accounting management experience in Southern California. Shortly thereafter we expanded our efforts to identify qualified candidates who once lived in California and would have interest in returning. Finally, we further expanded the search outside of California to include executives who were currently managing international accounting organization for public companies.ResultsThe search took longer than twelve weeks; however, after continued persistence we were able to successfully recruit an accounting executive away from a large organization in Southern California.Back from Chief Accounting Officer Case Study
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