Interim CFO & Finance Leaders Practice Lead

Career Group Search; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Group Search seeks an Interim & Consulting CFO Practice Lead to build and own a new line of business, placing interim, fractional, and project-based finance executives with clients including CFOs, VPs of Finance, and Controllers.

You will partner with senior consultants to meet urgent finance needs, define pricing, and craft engagement playbooks. This is a true 0→1 build with significant autonomy and impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of recruiting, search, or staffing focused on senior finance and accounting talent.
• Strong network of CFOs and senior finance leaders; ability to build relationships.
• Experience structuring and managing contract, interim, or consulting engagements; rate negotiation.

Responsibilities

• Own the full cycle for interim and consulting placements from intake to onboarding and extension.
• Build and maintain a bench of vetted interim finance executives ready to deploy quickly.
• Develop new client relationships and cross-sell the interim practice alongside retained search work.
• Structure engagements including scope, rates, duration, and conversion terms; manage the commercial relationship.

Skills

Senior finance recruiting

Networking

Contract/consulting engagements

Finance knowledge

Business development

Communication

Results oriented

Talent placement

Tools

Bullhorn

Job description

Career Group Search seeks an Interim & Consulting CFO Practice Lead to build and own a new line of business, placing interim, fractional, and project-based finance executives with clients including CFOs, VPs of Finance, and Controllers.

You will partner with senior consultants to meet urgent finance needs, define pricing, and craft engagement playbooks. This is a true 0→1 build with significant autonomy and impact.