Our Services
We are your resource for hiring financial professionals, servicing clients in Ontario since 2002.
Hiring Consultants
Job Posting Service
Financial Professionals Network
Hiring Consultants
How We’re Different
We do not work for commission or retainer. We only work in the best interests of our clients as an objective consultant. We are not a sales organization/employment agency/head hunter.
We do not sell resumes, nor do we represent job candidates. Unlike employment agencies/search firms, job candidates do not ‘register’ with us, which prevents conflict of interest. We only work for the interests of the hiring executives.
We do not negotiate salary on behalf of the preferred finalists. To ensure that our client’s best interests are maintained throughout the entire hiring process, we do not become involved in employment contract/salary negotiations.
We will not try to coax anyone’s employees away by calling them up to say, “Our client has heard great things about you and wants to meet you for an interview.” Our email job postings are compelling, sent directly to the correct audience and are a rich source of helpful data for employed CPAs – they are read and passed along to other financial professionals.
Unlike employment agencies, we do not coach job candidates with the kinds of questions they should be prepared to answer during client interviews.
We never try to convince clients to hire a particular candidate or wear them down with volumes of candidates.
What We Do
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Screen Candidates
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- Prepare a Job Analysis based on your input
- Advertise the job using highly-targeted communication within the Financial Industry
- Host an e-mail address to receive resumes, which allows your company to remain anonymous during the job posting (if desired) and limits your contact to only final candidates
- Provide first round screening of candidates, and objective, thorough reference checking on the finalist candidates
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Deliver Objective Evaluations of Candidates
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- Strategically Interview candidates
- Conduct Individual Behavioural Assessments of candidates
- Provide Detailed Reports on final candidates, which will include early coaching and initial training suggestions that can enhance their performance
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Create a Positive Impression of Your Company
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- Allow your company to remain anonymous (if desired) in the job posting
- Notify all candidates who submit a resume that it has been received and is being considered
- Clearly explain the process for selection to all short-listed candidates, and share the results with them, as appropriate
- Promptly notify short-listed candidates as they are eliminated from consideration
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Assess Staff
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- To enable you to promote from within in a competitive staff environment. Your Chief Financial Interviewer, Inc. consultant is trained to provide truly objective assessments of your staff.
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Career Counselling
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- For employed senior and mid-level CPAs who want to learn more about their strengths, limitations, career best directions and establish a superior action plan so they can reach the next level.
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Job Posting Service
How We’re Different
Most employers prefer to hire candidates who are actively employed. Yet, these in-demand candidates are the least likely to be looking at job boards or recruitment sites. To reach them, you need to tap into an extensive CPA network whose Members have opted into to receive job postings delivered right to their inboxes.
How It Works
- No contract is required to initiate a stand-alone job posting to our permission-based, private network of southern-Ontario based CPAs.
- We will help you develop a job description/posting that attracts the attention of our Members.
- Your hiring manager will receive quality applications delivered directly to their inbox for confidential consideration.
- You don’t pay our very reasonable success-based advertising fee until you hire one of our Members or their qualified friends.
financial professionals network
How We’re Different
Our network of Financial Professionals is 15,000 and growing. Current members are primarily comprised of senior and mid-level financial professionals in southern Ontario, who want to stay up-to-date on current, genuine salary and job description data. Members receive a maximum of 30 job-posting emails per year.
How To Join
Membership is free and confidential. To be considered for the network, please send an email to info@financialinterviewer.com (Subject: Membership Request).
Confidentiality is assured and resumes are never shared with clients until formal job applications are received for a particular career opportunity. Please see our Privacy Policy for more assurances about what won’t happen to your information as a valued member our network.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between a Controller and a CFO?
A Controller helps integrate systems and people resulting from M&A activities. A CFO strategically leads, negotiates with external M&A deals advisors and/or confidentially analyzes the potential merger target, or provides confidential financial data to the acquiring organization’s representatives.
How to hire a Controller, Director, Finance, VP, Finance or CFO?
Advertise the job to market passive financial professionals via the Chief Financial Interviewer, Inc., private & confidential job posting service. Screen and interview candidates of initial interest using proven questions that objectively draw out relevant achievements; look for behavioural matching candidates to the role’s requirements; then reference check at a very deep level without giving up control of the reference process to the candidates.
When does a company typically need to hire a dedicated financial professional?
In industry, typically, when a company reaches the $10 million in revenue mark, hiring an dedicated financial professional makes economic sense.
How to determine a topnotch job applicant from the average?
Even if the resumes do not state candidate accomplishments, an interview draws that information out. Career-stable professionals often don’t have great resumes, even when they have achieved great things for their employers.
What is the best way to advertise a CPA and/or CFA career opportunity?
The best way to effectively advertise jobs to market passive CPAs and/or CFAs in Ontario is to email the career opportunity to the Financial Professionals Network of Chief Financial Interviewer, Inc. private & confidential job posting e-mail network of thousands of employed and career stable local CPAs & CFAs.
How do I reach more market passive CPA and/or CFA candidates without hiring an agency/head-hunter/search firm?
Advertise on the private and confidential, employed and career stable job posting (to home emails) to the Financial Professionals Network of Chief Financial Interviewer, Inc.
How to hire a quality, career stable CPA or CPA without using an agency?
Engage either the job posting service or full advertising, screening, interviewing and reference-checking services of Chief Financial Interviewer, Inc.
How to access local CPA and/or CFA career opportunities?
Ask to join the private & confidential, no-cost Financial Professionals Network to receive job postings (to your home email) from Chief Financial Interviewer, Inc.
Contact Us
Please contact Chief Financial Interviewer, Inc. to discuss how we can be Your Resource for Hiring Financial Professionals or to become a member of our Financial Professionals Network.