Career advice, interview tips, and industry insights to help you navigate your next move.
The search took six months. You wrote the job description, screened the shortlist, negotiated the offer, and finally got a signature. That was the hard…
A controller owns the integrity of your numbers: the close, the controls, the reporting your leadership team actually trusts. But what does a controller do…
Hire a strong general accountant into a property company and watch them stall the first time a CAM reconciliation lands on their desk. They know…
You can pressure-test a CFO candidate in an afternoon. Hand them your model, watch how they stress the assumptions, and you’ll know within an hour…
In food and ag, the inventory rots, the yield never matches the recipe, and there’s a tax credit most owners leave on the table. Your…
Your first-counsel offer isn’t competing with another fund. It’s competing with a partnership track the candidate has been running toward for six years. That’s the…
It’s a familiar problem at a growing investment firm: seventy or so people, a growing contract pile, a compliance exam on the horizon, and budget…
Retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) look simple from the outside. Products go out, cash comes in. Then you open the books and go looking…
Search “average general counsel salary Toronto” and you’ll get a number around $200,000. For a 60-person fund, it’s the wrong number twice over. Too high…
Most owners hire finance roles reactively. A payroll error, a botched month-end, a lender asking for statements nobody can produce. Then a panicked hire. Companies…
