CFO and Finance Executive Focus
Over the past decade, Clarity has successfully placed CFOs and Finance Executives in high-growth companies. We understand the needs of scale-ups and start-ups and help build out their senior finance and accounting teams to fuel their growth.
Hire Top CFO and Finance Executives
We invest in behavioural science research and proprietary hiring technology - Luma-Fi, to better discover what is needed and assess senior leader fit for the company, which enables our clients to make better hiring decisions.
Our Executive Search Approach
- Explore where your company has been, is now, and where it’s going
- Assess risk and complexity and skills and experience required
- Complete search strategy to identify target companies
- Visualize the career path of the ideal candidate
- Define a Market Map of target companies and candidates to approach
- Assess all qualified candidates using our proprietary hiring technology - Luma-Fi
- Screen candidates based on established criteria
- Provide regular progress reports
- Determine shortlist
- Meetings are organized with a client hiring panel
- Interviews begin
- After the shortlist meetings, a finalist candidate will be selected and an offer will be made
- Conduct due diligence and reference checks
- 12-month replacement guarantee
Completed CFO and Finance Executive Searches in Canada's Growth Companies
Technology, SaaS
Chief Financial Officer
Start-up
5 Million
High growth, potential IPO, the incumbent did not have the skills needed to manage growth
Technology
Head of Finance
Scale-up
50 Million
Drive a complete transformation within the finance function and maximize newly acquired debt financing
Consumer Goods, Retail
Chief Financial Officer
Scale-up
90 Million
Hire a CFO to assess the current finance team and rebuild finance function from scratch
Private Equity
Chief Financial Officer
Scale-up
25 Million
Private Equity purchased a technology company, needed profitability analysis and recommendation on underperforming asset
Cannabis, Retail & Production
Chief Financial Officer
Scale-up
20 Million
Rapid growth, country-wide expansion, changing regulatory environment, no CFO in seat
E-Sports
CFO
Start-up
200+ Million
Hire a CFO to complete an audit, establish the finance function and navigate the company through IPO
Consumer Goods, Retail
CFO
Scale-up
50 Million
Structure the buyout transaction and help set the company up for long term success
ALCOHOL & BEVERAGES
VP of Finance
Scale-up
20 Million
Become a strategic partner to the company and build out the necessary processes and systems to enable scalable growth
Entertainment
VP of Finance
Enterprise
3 Million
Hire a finance executive to rebuild the Finance function for a high growth content division
Our CFO and Executive Search Leadership Team
Russell Axford
Shane Gagnon
Behind the Numbers
Russell Axford, Head of Executive Search at Clarity Recruitment, is on a mission to capture the human stories of tenacity, grit and resilience behind the numbers that come with being a finance executive in growth companies.
Behind the Numbers with Gordon Dyer
Gordon Dyer, CFO at Destiny Solutions, shares his experiences as a finance leader in a high growth software company
Behind the Numbers with Judy Kudla CA, CPA, CIA
Judy Kudla CA, CPA, CIA is an experienced risk & internal audit leader and a strategic problem solver discusses Audit as a career
Download a CFO Hiring Case Study
Finding the successor for any outstanding finance employee is a challenge, not to mention when that employee is your CFO. For companies looking to hire someone to step into such a complex, sophisticated role, the task can be daunting.
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Contact Clarity Executive Search
Speak with our CFO and executive search recruitment team about your start-up or scale-up's specific finance leadership needs.
I've worked with many agency recruiters, and Russ and his team stand out as top notch people to partner with. They helped me secure my role and would recommend them for any growing copmany looking for a CFO.Daniel Im, CPA, CA, JDCFO, Riwi
Russell Axford and his team were professional, responsive, and thorough. Russell and his team were so easy to work with, represented us out in the market very well, brought a ton of insight into the search, helped guide our thinking and I was confident that they would find us the right person.Marieta MendozaVP, Human Resources, Multiplex