Why Storytelling is a Crucial Skill for Finance and Accounting Professionals
Why does storytelling matter in the finance world? Here are some major reasons, and what you can do to better tell the stories that matter to your team.
How to Win the Trust of an Insecure Hiring Manager
How to spot an insecure hiring manager and what you can do to avoid frustration and win their trust. Use these tips to turn an uncomfortable interview into a job offer.
How to Set Goals as a Finance Manager (and Help Your Team Achieve Them)
Not everyone can score goals like Sidney Crosby or Wayne Gretzky, but if your finance team doesn’t meet expectations, the impact is widespread. That’s why it’s so important as a finance manager to set goals that include accountability and recognition. Here are some tips..
5 Things to Think About Before You Hire a Finance Recruiter
You’ve decided to hire a finance recruiter who specializes in the finance and accounting space. That’s a good first step, as recruiters with specialized knowledge will have a deeper understanding of what’s needed to succeed in a given role. They’ll also have a broader base of finance
How Timing Impacts Your Chances of Landing a Great Finance Candidate
In 800 BC Hesiod, a Greek poet wrote, the “…right timing is in all things the most important factor.”
Variations of this phrase have been quoted by everyone from John Sculley, former CEO of Apple, to Pierre Trudeau who claimed that the essential ingredient of politics was timing. But how does
3 Reasons Your Finance Hiring Process Fails
As tenured finance and accounting recruiters in Toronto, we are often called to the table when a hiring process has been unsuccessful.
Interestingly, there seem to be three underlying reasons that cause ineffective results. While there are certainly challenges to hiring accountants, here are three things you want to avoid
How to Hire a Finance Manager
A finance manager plays a critical role on your team and in your organization. If you’re looking to hire a finance manager, consider these tips.
How to Stay on Top of Industry Trends
There’s a whole world beyond your company’s office. It’s vital for accountants to be clued into that world – to be au courant with the wider trends and developments in their industry. Here’s how you can stay up-to-date.
Part of excelling in an accounting role is becoming
The Importance of Ongoing Professional Development
Whether you’re a CA, CGA or CMA, your work as an accountant will never be just about the numbers.
Sure, your expertise in taxation, finance and auditing is invaluable, but often, what really sets you apart in this industry is versatility. That means a truly successful accountant will possess
Dressing for a Finance Interview
So you’ve jumped through the preliminary hoops and impressed—on paper, at least— the powers that be enough to bag a job interview. Now for the hard part: not only are you facing tremendous pressure to be charming, competent and utterly on in the flesh, you’re also expected
Managing a Top-Performing Finance Team
A good, top-performing finance team today isn’t just about bean-counting or number-crunching — it’s about building value for the business.
“The times,” Bob Dylan once crooned, “they are a-changing.” And so, too, the face of finance. Once regarded simply as the fiscal conscience of an organization, the finance department has
7 Tips for Switching Industries as an Accountant in Toronto
If you’re an accountant in Toronto who has extensive experience in one industry, but are considering switching industries, you know (or else, are about to learn) that making that kind of move can sometimes be a real struggle. You may have worked
