Nationwide
Accounting & Finance Recruiting
Founders with More
Than 20 Years in Recruiting
Direct Hire and
Permanent Placement
Contract and
Contract-to-Hire
Retained
Executive Search
Based in Winter Park, Florida, we support employers throughout Orlando and Central Florida while recruiting nationwide for permanent, contract, contract-to-hire, and executive positions.
Your Finance Team Cannot
Be Built from Job Titles Alone
An accounting or finance title can mean very different things from one company to another.
One Controller may oversee financial reporting for a single business. Another may manage multi-entity consolidations, lender reporting, audit coordination, system improvements, and a growing accounting team.
One Financial Analyst may prepare recurring reports. Another may build forecasts, test business scenarios, and present recommendations to senior leadership.
Trova begins by understanding the work behind the title:
- Why is the position open?
- How has the role changed?
- What must the new employee accomplish?
- Which experience is essential?
- What can the right person learn after joining?
- Why would a strong candidate choose this opportunity?
- What could cause an otherwise qualified person to struggle?
These conversations help Trova turn a job description into a more accurate recruiting profile.
Our process helps your organization avoid limiting the search to people who match the right keywords but may not fit the actual responsibilities.
Accounting and Finance
Roles Trova Recruits
Trova recruits experienced professionals, specialists, managers, directors, vice presidents, and executives across accounting and finance.
Instead of treating finance as one broad talent category, we organize searches around the function, level of responsibility, and work the organization needs completed.
Financial and Accounting Leadership
These professionals lead financial strategy, reporting, planning, controls, and accounting operations.
The right leadership profile may depend on company size, ownership structure, reporting requirements, department maturity, transaction experience, and the relationships the leader will manage with owners, executives, boards, lenders, or investors.
- Executive finance leadership: Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance
- Accounting leadership: Corporate Controller, Assistant Controller, Vice President of Accounting, and Director of Accounting
- Planning and finance leadership: Director of Finance and Head or Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Corporate Accounting and Financial Reporting
These professionals maintain financial records, support the close, prepare reports, reconcile accounts, and help keep financial information accurate and usable.
Relevant experience may include close management, financial statements, consolidations, account reconciliation, revenue recognition, technical accounting, audit support, or process improvement.
- Accounting management: Accounting Manager, General Ledger Manager, and Financial Reporting Manager
- Experienced accounting professionals: Senior Accountant, Staff Accountant, General Ledger Accountant, and Technical Accountant
- Transaction and reporting operations: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and related accounting operations leaders
Financial Planning, Analysis, and Credit
These professionals help organizations understand results, develop budgets and forecasts, evaluate scenarios, and support financial decisions.
These searches may require more than financial modeling ability. The right person may also need to explain findings, challenge assumptions, work with operational leaders, and turn financial data into useful business guidance.
- FP&A leadership: Head of FP&A, FP&A Director, and FP&A Manager
- Financial analysis: Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Analyst, Budget Analyst, and Forecasting Analyst
- Credit: Credit Director, Credit Manager, Senior Credit Analyst, and Credit Analyst
Internal Audit and Controls
These professionals evaluate processes, test controls, identify risk, and help organizations prepare for internal or external scrutiny.
The search should account for the organization’s reporting environment, risk profile, control framework, audit cycle, and level of interaction with executives, audit committees, and external auditors.
- Audit leadership: Vice President of Internal Audit, Director of Internal Audit, and Internal Audit Manager
- Audit professionals: Senior Internal Auditor, Internal Auditor, and Audit Manager
- Controls: Internal Controls, SOX, compliance, and financial controls professionals
Tax
Tax professionals help organizations manage compliance, reporting, planning, and the tax implications of business activity.
The position must be defined around the tax work involved. Experience with one area of tax does not automatically translate to another.
- Tax leadership: Vice President of Tax, Tax Director, and Tax Manager
- Tax professionals: Senior Tax Accountant, Tax Accountant, and Tax Analyst
- Specialized tax needs: Corporate tax, state and local tax, sales and use tax, tax provision, international tax, and related specialties
Treasury, Payroll, and Financial Operations
These professionals manage important functions connected to cash, banking, employee pay, financial deadlines, and daily business operations.
The right experience may depend on transaction volume, workforce size, geographic reach, banking structure, payroll jurisdictions, reporting relationships, and financial systems.
- Treasury and cash management: Treasurer, Treasury Director, Treasury Manager, Treasury Analyst, and Cash Manager
- Payroll leadership: Payroll Director and Payroll Manager
- Payroll professionals: Payroll Accountant and Payroll Specialist
- Related financial operations: Credit, collections, cash application, and other finance operations positions when relevant to the search
Do not see the exact title you need?
Talk with Trova about the responsibilities, level, and experience required.
Trova Looks Beyond
the Résumé and the Polished Interview
Accounting and finance searches require technical qualifications. However, matching titles, systems, and certifications is not enough to predict how someone will perform after being hired.
As Trova co-founder Tim Lesnick explains in Stop Hiring the Best Interviewer, traditional interviews can reveal who prepared the best answers without revealing who will make sound decisions, adapt, solve problems, or contribute after joining the company.
Trova uses conversations and follow-up questions to explore the experience behind a candidate’s résumé.
Credentials strengthen a candidate profile when they support the actual work. They do not replace relevant experience, judgment, communication, or performance.
Technical Application
We look at how the candidate applied accounting or finance knowledge in real situations.
That may include how the person handled a close, improved a forecast, addressed an audit finding, corrected a reporting issue, strengthened a control, managed a deadline, or worked through a system change.
Scope and Complexity
We consider the environment behind the candidate’s title.
Company size, transaction volume, number of entities, team responsibility, reporting relationships, ownership structure, and financial complexity can reveal more than title alone.
Judgment and Accountability
Accounting and finance professionals often work with sensitive information, competing deadlines, incomplete data, and decisions that affect other parts of the business.
Trova looks for examples that show how candidates evaluate information, take ownership, respond to mistakes, manage pressure, and follow work through to completion.
Communication and Business Partnership
Finance professionals frequently communicate with executives, operating leaders, employees, auditors, lenders, boards, and investors.
We consider whether a candidate can explain financial information clearly, ask useful questions, challenge assumptions appropriately, and work productively with people outside the finance department.
Motivation and Career Alignment
A candidate can be qualified and still be wrong for the opportunity.
Trova works to understand what motivates the professional, why the person is considering a change, what type of environment supports their best work, and whether the position fits their longer-term goals.
Professional Credentials
Trova recruits talent with credentials such as CPA and CFA when those qualifications are relevant to the position.
A CPA may be particularly relevant for accounting leadership, reporting, audit, and technical accounting positions. A CFA may be more closely aligned with investment analysis, valuation, portfolio, risk, or certain strategic finance roles.
Recruiting Relationships
Built Before the Position Opens
Many experienced accounting and finance professionals are already employed. They may not be searching job boards or submitting applications, but they may consider an opportunity that fits their experience and career goals.
In his interview about Trova’s growth, co-founder Tim Lesnick explains that he and Beau McGlamery have spent decades building professional networks and relationships. When clients need talent, Trova can draw on those connections instead of relying only on public job postings.
That approach matters in accounting and finance, where a trusted introduction can open a conversation with a Controller, financial leader, auditor, tax professional, or experienced accountant who was not actively planning a job change.
Trova combines those relationships with targeted research, referrals, and direct outreach. We do not limit a search to people already in our network, but our established connections give each search a stronger place to begin.
We Learn What Makes
the Opportunity Worth Considering
Recruiting is not only about what the employer wants from a candidate.
Qualified accounting and finance professionals also want to understand:
- The work: What will they own, improve, or help build?
- The opportunity: Why is the position open, and where can it lead?
- The environment: How does the team operate, and how are decisions made?
- The expectations: What should the new employee accomplish during the first six to twelve months?
- The support: Which people, systems, and resources will help the person succeed?
Trova helps clarify these points during the intake process. This gives our recruiters a more compelling and accurate opportunity to present when approaching professionals who are not actively applying.
It also gives candidates the information they need to make a thoughtful career decision.
Accounting and Finance Recruiting
Experience in Central Florida
Trova’s accounting and finance specialty is supported by recruiting experience developed over decades.
Trova advisor Stephen Smith has more than two decades of retained and contingency recruiting experience. His background includes placing finance executives and spending 13 years leading accounting and finance permanent placement operations throughout Central Florida.
Trova co-founders Tim Lesnick and Beau McGlamery also bring decades of recruiting, consulting, business development, and business ownership experience. Their work has shaped a recruiting approach built around cultivated networks, deeper discovery, hands-on involvement, and long-term relationships with clients and candidates.
Together, that experience helps Trova understand both sides of an accounting and finance search: the technical and organizational requirements of the employer and the career considerations that influence experienced professionals.
A Hiring Partner
Focused on What Happens
After the Interview
Trova does not define success by producing the largest number of résumés or introducing the person who gives the smoothest interview.
The goal is to help your organization hire someone who can perform the work, contribute to the team, and support the business after the interview process ends.
That requires more than matching keywords. It requires understanding what the company needs, reaching professionals who may not be actively applying, asking better questions, gathering useful feedback, and helping both sides make an informed decision.
Let’s Find the Accounting or Finance
Professional Your Business Needs
Whether you are replacing a key employee, building a finance department, adding specialized expertise, or preparing for a leadership transition, the search should start with a clear understanding of the work and the business need.
Tell Trova why the position is open, what the person must accomplish, and where the current hiring process is falling short.
We will help you define the search and determine whether Direct Hire, Staff Augmentation, contract-to-hire, or Retained Executive Search is the appropriate next step.
Looking for Your Next
Accounting or Finance Position?
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