We proactively identify and discreetly engage accomplished finance executives, including leaders who are performing well and may never respond to a traditional job posting.
Accounting & Finance Executive Search Firm Services
Finance & Accounting Executive Search
Hire the Finance Executive Your Next Stage Demands.
Nationwide retained executive search for CFOs, Chief Accounting Officers, FP&A leaders, Treasury executives, Tax leaders, restructuring executives, Controllers, and senior finance talent aligned to your business model, industry, growth stage, financial mandate, and leadership needs.
Nationwide retained search • Active and passive executive outreach • Serving organizations since 2006
Strategic Finance Leadership Dashboard
Decision Intelligence
Visibility
Forecast + FP&A
Control
Accounting + Risk
Strategy
Capital + Growth
Profitability
Margin discipline
Liquidity
Cash & capital
Scale
Systems & leadership
98%
Finance placement success at one year
800K+
Finance professionals in Scion's private network
16M+
Executive candidate network access
50 States
Nationwide executive search reach
Since 2006
Executive recruiting experience
Strategic Finance
Better decisions through visibility
Accounting Leadership
Controls, reporting, and rigor
Capital Strategy
Liquidity, investment, and growth
Transformation
Systems, scale, M&A, and change
Why Employers Choose Scion
A Finance Search Built Around the Business Outcome.
The right finance executive is defined by far more than title. Scion builds each search around the financial challenges, strategic priorities, stakeholders, industry dynamics, operating environment, and results the new leader must deliver.
Scion combines a broad executive network with hundreds of thousands of finance professionals spanning accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, investment, transformation, risk, and strategic finance.
Our recruiters conduct national searches across major U.S. markets, helping employers access relevant executives rather than limiting the search to candidates already nearby.
We evaluate leadership against your revenue model, margin structure, ownership environment, reporting needs, regulation, systems, transactions, and operating complexity.
Candidates are assessed for technical depth as well as judgment, communication, strategic influence, leadership style, team building, stakeholder management, and change leadership.
Our retained model focuses on successful executive alignment, including the mandate, organization, leadership environment, expectations, culture, and long-term outcomes.
Proactive Executive Search
The Finance Leader You Need May Never Apply.
High-performing finance executives are often busy delivering results inside successful organizations. A retained search should reach beyond the visible applicant market.
Scion proactively maps relevant organizations, adjacent industries, comparable operating environments, ownership structures, transaction profiles, and leadership backgrounds to identify executives whose experience aligns with your actual mandate.
Market 01
Comparable Companies
Executives operating at relevant scale, complexity, and growth stage.
Market 02
Adjacent Industries
Transferable leadership experience beyond the obvious competitor set.
Market 03
Passive Executives
Proven leaders not actively searching or responding to postings.
Market 04
Specialized Profiles
Industry, transaction, technical, ownership, transformation, or growth expertise.
Finance Leadership With Business Impact
Hire Beyond the Numbers.
Exceptional finance executives create more than accurate reporting. They give leaders the visibility, discipline, judgment, and forward-looking insight required to allocate capital, manage risk, improve performance, and act with confidence.
Our search process evaluates both technical finance depth and the executive's ability to influence strategy, communicate with stakeholders, build teams, and lead through change.
Build teams, systems, forecasting, controls, and decision support that can keep pace with growth.
Recruit leaders who connect finance to pricing, margin, productivity, working capital, and business performance.
Secure executives experienced in diligence, integration, capital markets, financing, investor communication, and transactions.
Find leaders who can strengthen close, reporting, ERP, data, automation, compliance, and scalable financial operations.
When Organizations Engage Scion
Finance Leadership Searches Often Begin at a Point of Change.
Whether the business is growing, restructuring, preparing for a transaction, replacing a key executive, or upgrading its finance infrastructure, we align the search to what must happen next.
Executive Transition
CFO or Finance Leadership Replacement
Conduct a discreet search for a stronger or differently experienced financial leader.
Rapid Growth
The Business Has Outgrown Its Finance Structure
Build financial leadership capable of scaling reporting, planning, controls, systems, and teams.
Private Capital
Investor or Sponsor Expectations Have Changed
Identify executives experienced in value creation, reporting, professionalization, M&A, leverage, and exit readiness.
Transaction
M&A, Capital Raise, IPO or Exit
Recruit finance leadership with relevant diligence, markets, integration, investor, and transaction experience.
Transformation
Finance Systems or Processes Need Modernization
Find leaders who can improve ERP, close, reporting, controls, analytics, automation, and operating models.
Specialized Need
The Candidate Profile Is Difficult to Find
Reach executives with specific technical, industry, ownership, geographic, regulatory, or leadership experience.
Forecasting
High
Controls
Core
Capital Strategy
High
M&A / Growth
Varies
Team Leadership
Core
Illustrative executive scorecard visualization. Each retained search is
calibrated to the client's actual financial mandate, stage, and
business model.
A Better Finance Executive Scorecard
Match the Finance Leader to the Business Model.
The ideal CFO for a SaaS company is not the same as the ideal CFO for a manufacturer, healthcare organization, private equity portfolio company, financial institution, or global consumer brand.
We build the search around revenue model, margin structure, capital needs, transaction activity, reporting complexity, investor expectations, regulatory environment, systems maturity, team structure, and the financial outcomes leadership must deliver.
Finance & Accounting Leadership
Executive Titles We Recruit
Build the Finance Leadership Bench the Business Needs Next.
Executive titles vary considerably across organizations. Scion searches across title conventions and leadership structures to identify senior finance executives whose actual responsibilities and experience align with the mandate.
Finance & Accounting Leadership
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
CFO | Chief Financial Officer | Chief Finance Officer | EVP, Finance |
SVP, Finance | Chief Financial & Administrative Officer |
Chief Financial & Operating Officer
Finance & Accounting Leadership
Chief Accounting Officer (CAO)
CAO | Chief Accounting Officer |
Chief Accounting & Finance Officer |
Corporate Controller | Chief Controller
Finance & Accounting Leadership
FP&A Leadership
Chief FP&A Officer | Head of FP&A |
VP, FP&A | SVP, FP&A |
VP, Financial Planning & Analysis |
Senior Director, FP&A |
Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
Finance & Accounting Leadership
Treasury Leadership
Chief Treasury Officer | Treasurer | Corporate Treasurer |
SVP, Treasury | VP, Treasury |
Senior Director, Treasury |
Senior Director, Corporate Treasury
Finance & Accounting Leadership
Chief Tax Officer / Head of Tax
Chief Tax Officer | Global Head of Tax |
Head of Global Tax | Head of Tax |
EVP, Tax | SVP, Tax | VP, Tax |
Senior Director, Tax
Finance & Accounting Leadership
Chief Restructuring Officer
Chief Restructuring Officer | Chief Turnaround Officer |
Chief Transformation & Restructuring Officer |
EVP, Restructuring | SVP, Restructuring |
VP, Restructuring | Senior Director, Restructuring
Finance Executive Search Expertise
Financial Leadership Across the Full Enterprise.
Our network spans finance leaders with experience across complex operating models, public and private companies, investor-backed businesses, regulated markets, and rapidly scaling organizations.
Strategic Finance
FP&A & Business Partnership
Forecasting, planning, analytics, scenario modeling, operating
metrics, and strategic decision support.
Accounting
Controllership & Reporting
Close, GAAP, reporting, consolidation, policies, systems,
technical accounting, and controls.
Capital
Treasury & Capital Markets
Cash, liquidity, debt, financing, banking, capital structure,
FX, and capital deployment.
Transactions
M&A & Integration Finance
Diligence, valuation, deal support, integration, purchase accounting,
synergy tracking, and exit readiness.
Governance
Audit, Risk & Compliance
Internal audit, SOX, enterprise risk, controls, compliance,
governance, and regulatory readiness.
Modernization
Finance Transformation
ERP, automation, data, AI-enabled finance, process redesign,
shared services, and scalable operations.
Finance Leadership by Industry
Industry Context Matters in Finance Search.
We match financial leadership experience to the economics, reporting environment, operating model, regulation, ownership structure, and strategic priorities of the organization.
Private Capital
Private Equity & Portfolio Companies
Value creation, leverage, M&A, integration, sponsor reporting, and exit readiness.
Technology Technology, SaaS & AISaaS metrics, fundraising, recurring revenue, growth economics, data, and investor readiness.
Industrial Manufacturing & IndustrialsCost accounting, inventory, working capital, CapEx, supply chain, and operating margin.
Consumer Consumer, CPG & RetailInventory, pricing, channel economics, ecommerce, supply chain, and brand investment.
Energy Energy & InfrastructureProject finance, commodities, capital programs, regulatory dynamics, and infrastructure investment.
Life Sciences Healthcare & Life SciencesR&D funding, clinical economics, reimbursement, regulatory complexity, and capital planning.
Services Professional & Business ServicesUtilization, recurring revenue, project economics, people costs, and scalable delivery models.
Financial Services
Banking, FinTech & Investment Management
More
Additional Industries
Capital, regulatory compliance, risk, markets, investment products, and financial institutions.
Explore Scion's broader executive search capabilities across specialized industries and organization types.
Private Equity Finance Leadership
Finance Executives for Portfolio Company Value Creation.
Sponsor-backed organizations often need finance leaders who can create operating visibility quickly while preparing the company for its next growth, acquisition, financing, or exit milestone.
Scion can target CFOs and senior finance executives with experience working alongside investors, boards, lenders, management teams, and operating partners in demanding value-creation environments.
Portfolio Company Finance Mandates
Sponsor & board reporting
Value creation planning
FP&A professionalization
M&A and add-on integration
Working capital improvement
Debt & lender management
ERP & systems modernization
Exit readiness
Retained Finance Executive Search
A Search Process Built to Find, Assess, and Close Proven Leaders.
Our retained model combines executive market research, proactive candidate outreach, structured assessment, stakeholder alignment, and close partnership throughout the search.
Rather than waiting for applicants, we identify relevant executives across target organizations, industries, markets, and adjacent talent pools, then evaluate them against the outcomes your business requires.
01
Define the Financial Mandate
Business model, strategic priorities, reporting, systems,
capital needs, stakeholders, and outcomes.
02
Map Relevant Finance Markets
Comparable companies, industries, scale, transaction environments,
and leadership profiles.
03
Engage Proven Leaders
Direct and discreet outreach to qualified active and passive
finance executives.
04
Assess Business and Technical Depth
Financial leadership, strategic judgment, communication,
systems, team development, and results.
05
Curate the Finalist Market
Executive intelligence, references, stakeholder alignment,
and candidate comparison.
06
Guide Offer and Transition
Candidate communication, offer strategy, acceptance,
and support through the hire.
Your Finance Leadership Mandate
Tell Us What Your Next Finance Leader Needs to Accomplish.
Whether you are replacing a CFO, building FP&A, strengthening accounting, preparing for a transaction, upgrading treasury or tax leadership, or navigating restructuring, we can begin mapping the relevant executive market.
National Recognition. Proven Results.
Recognized for the Experience We Deliver to Clients and Talent.
Independent recognition reinforces what matters most in executive search: consistent client service, strong candidate relationships, thoughtful partnership, and successful hiring outcomes.
Client Satisfaction
ClearlyRated recognition reflecting exceptional client satisfaction and the experience organizations receive when partnering with Scion for recruiting and executive search.
Talent Satisfaction
Recognition for the talent experience Scion delivers, supporting strong candidate relationships, executive engagement, and a professional search experience from first conversation through hire.
Talent Recognition
Sustained recognition from 2021 through 2026 reflects Scion's commitment to delivering a consistently strong experience for the professionals and executives we engage.
98%
Finance placement success at one year
16M+
Executive candidate network access
800K+
Finance professionals in private network
50 States
Nationwide reach plus international search
Build Your Finance Leadership Team
Hire the Financial Leader Who Can See What the Business Needs Next.
Tell us about the role, organization, financial priorities, business model, growth plans, systems, reporting needs, transactions, and stakeholders. We'll help define the mandate and begin mapping the relevant finance executive market.
Finance Executive Search FAQs
What Employers Want to Know.
Answers for CEOs, boards, investors, HR leaders, and finance executives evaluating a retained finance executive search partner.
Scion recruits Chief Financial Officers, Chief Accounting Officers,
FP&A executives, Treasury leaders, Tax executives,
Chief Restructuring Officers, Controllers, senior finance leaders,
and related executive positions across finance and accounting.
Yes. Retained executive search can be structured for sensitive
leadership transitions where discretion, targeted outreach,
and controlled candidate communication are important.
Scion proactively researches relevant organizations, industries,
ownership structures, leadership profiles, and adjacent markets,
then directly and discreetly engages executives whose experience
aligns with the search mandate.
Yes. Scion conducts finance executive searches nationally across
the United States and can expand searches beyond an employer's
immediate local market when the mandate requires broader access.
Yes. Scion maintains a dedicated CFO executive search practice
and recruits financial leaders for organizations across industries,
stages, ownership structures, and geographies.
Yes. Scion recruits Chief Accounting Officers, Corporate Controllers,
Chief Controllers, technical accounting executives, and other
leaders responsible for reporting, close, controls, accounting
operations, systems, compliance, and technical accounting.
Yes. Searches can include Chief FP&A Officers, Heads of FP&A,
SVPs and VPs of FP&A, VPs of Financial Planning and Analysis,
Senior Directors of FP&A, and other strategic financial
planning leaders.
Yes. Scion can recruit senior Treasury executives including Chief
Treasury Officers, Treasurers, VPs of Treasury and senior Treasury
directors, as well as Chief Tax Officers, Heads of Tax,
VPs of Tax, and other senior tax leaders.
Yes. Searches can target Chief Restructuring Officers,
Chief Turnaround Officers, transformation and restructuring
executives, and other senior leaders experienced in financial
and operational restructuring environments.
Yes. Searches can focus on portfolio-company CFOs and finance leaders
with experience in value creation, sponsor reporting, M&A,
integration, leverage, operating improvement, professionalization,
and exit readiness.
Yes. Finance search criteria can be calibrated to an organization's
industry, operating model, ownership structure, revenue model,
regulatory environment, systems, transaction history, growth stage,
and other relevant experience requirements.
Retained search is especially valuable for high-impact financial
leadership roles where discretion, specialized experience,
proactive access to passive candidates, market intelligence,
or a highly specific leadership mandate are important.
Scion reports a 98% finance executive placement success rate at
the one-year mark, reflecting its focus on successful long-term
executive alignment.
Begin with a confidential discussion about the organization,
financial mandate, role, reporting structure, business model,
priorities, compensation, stakeholders, and timing.
Start a search here.