An unfilled finance role can lead to financial forecasts that start to drift, budget cycles that run long, treasury and covenant work falling to the CFO and senior leaders waiting on answers from an overloaded finance team. Accounting explains last month; finance has to say what will happen in the next.
Equiliem tests modeling capability and screens for credentials and demonstrated ownership rather than titles. We assess whether an analyst has walked an operator through a disputed variance, whether a treasury candidate has actually managed covenant compliance and whether a candidate using CFA-related language actually holds the CFA charter or has completed only part of the examination process. Employers rely on finance continuity to maintain forecasting accuracy, cash performance and board confidence. Equiliem supports finance leaders with scalable staffing, recruiting and workforce solutions covering both project work and direct placements.
Whether supporting a budget season, an acquisition's diligence period or an ERP migration, Equiliem places contract analysts for the duration and transitions them off when the work is complete. Our finance staffing is flexible and adapts to your cycle.
For long-term hiring needs, we help employers identify analysts, managers and treasury professionals whose experience aligns with your industry, systems and the way your leadership consumes numbers. A specialized finance recruiter validates modeling skills rather than relying on the resume.
An experienced VP of finance or head of FP&A is likely too busy presenting to someone else's board to be looking at job postings. Finance headhunters understand that experienced leaders are often more focused on presenting the next forecast than searching for their next opportunity. Our team maintains long-term relationships across finance functions, helping us discreetly engage FP&A, treasury and finance leaders whose experience aligns with the decisions and challenges they would be expected to own.
Our screening is tailored to the role and assignment: we screen for relevant experience and qualifications, review available documentation, and coordinate applicable client-specific requirements. Depending on the role, that may include CFA charterholder status, CPA licenses, CTP certification, FINRA registrations, degrees and employment history, background screening and employment eligibility verification. Where appropriate, and based on the role, client requirements and applicable law, screening may include an FCRA-compliant credit check for treasury and cash-handling roles.
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
My FP&A team was two people and one of them left the week we kicked off the budget. Equiliem had a contract analyst in here inside ten days who knew her way around a driver-based model without hand-holding. We made our deadline, and I made her an offer.
I've interviewed people who claimed a CFA and had passed one level, so the fact that Equiliem is precise about charterholder status before I ever see a resume matters to me. Everything they say about a candidate has checked out, every time. In finance that's the whole relationship.
Finance people have to translate for operators or the numbers just bounce off, and that's a rarer skill than modeling. The analyst they placed can sit with a plant manager and actually be understood. Our monthly reviews stopped being arguments, which I did not expect a hire to fix.
Three searches with them now, an analyst, a treasury role, and our FP&A director. Each shortlist was small and every name on it was worth an interview, which is rarer than it should be. They've earned the next one without a bake-off.
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For more than 30 years, Equiliem has been a family-owned workforce partner supporting the organizations that keep North America’s infrastructure running. Energy, utilities, logistics, and manufacturing businesses depend on accurate forecasting, disciplined financial planning, and informed decision-making to manage capital-intensive operations. We connect these organizations with finance professionals who provide the analysis, insight, and accountability those decisions require. Our involvement extends beyond placement because we understand that a new hire’s impact is measured not on day one, but through their first budget cycle and the results that follow.
A midstream energy company's board had started asking questions the monthly package could not answer. We closed a director search in 33 days with a candidate who rebuilt the reporting around drivers instead of history. Two quarters later the CFO told us board meetings had gotten shorter, which he meant as a compliment.
A distribution company was drawing on its revolver by instinct because nobody maintained a cash forecast. We placed a CTP-certified treasury analyst in three weeks. The 13-week model she built cut their average draw and the interest expense that went with it.
A hospital system needed two contract analysts for its annual budget build after an HRIS conversion ate its FP&A team's calendar. Both started inside ten days and carried the department templates through the cycle. The budget landed on deadline, and the system asked to keep one of them permanently.
A family-owned manufacturer was heading into a debt refinancing without anyone senior who had done one. We ran a 72-day search for a VP of finance who had been through three. The refinancing closed on schedule the following spring, on terms the owner was happy to describe at the closing dinner.
For Employers
A financial analyst, two to three weeks. A director or VP search runs three to five weeks done properly, and we give you the honest number at the start.
We review applicable professional licenses and certifications where relevant to the role — CFA charterholder status, CPA licensure, CTP, FINRA registrations — as part of screening.
Yes. Budget builds, diligence support, system migrations, an interim analyst while a search runs. Contract finance talent is much of our work.
Contract and interim, contract-to-hire, direct placement, and executive search for finance leadership.
Direct-hire engagements may include a replacement guarantee based on the terms of the specific engagement, and contract staff can be replaced quickly so a deliverable never strands.
For Job Seekers
Analysts through VPs: FP&A, treasury, budgeting, and finance leadership, for contract and direct placement opportunities.
Both. Contract project work is also a fast way to see an industry before you commit to it.
They help, and we review them up front. But we also test modeling, because the work persuades employers faster than the letters do.
We learn your modeling depth, your industries, and what you want next, then put you in front of roles that fit. We stay through the offer and the first cycle.
No. Job seekers are never charged for Equiliem placement services.
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