Executive Search · F&A · Financial Services · Trading & Energy · DFW & National

I only work in markets I understand.

Finance & Accounting · Financial Services & Banking · Trading & Energy. Fletcher Search places the hire that moves your business forward, or provides senior interim coverage during a transition, across three productized engagement models built around how you actually hire. Every engagement is personally run, start to finish.

Engagement Models Start a Search
CFO Search· Controller Placement· FP&A Leadership· SBA Business Development· VP Finance· Interim Controller· Prop Trading Professionals· ETRM Specialists· Chief Lending Officer· Fractional CFO Coverage
Core Practice

Finance & Accounting. Where the bottleneck sits.

For most companies scaling through a critical phase, the finance and accounting seat is where growth actually gets stuck. The month-end that won't close. The lender covenant nobody can report on cleanly. The board deck the executive ends up building themselves.

"Most recruiters learn about your world from job descriptions. I learned mine from working in it — and recruiting exclusively within it for years."

Six-plus years and hundreds of searches later, I've placed people across the full CFO organization, from Senior Accountants and Finance Managers up through Controllers, VPs of Finance, and CFOs, for mid-market and growth-stage companies in real estate, private equity, technology, manufacturing, energy, and professional services.

This is industry-agnostic by design. For finance and accounting, the market is the function, not the sector. The CFO organization is substantively similar whether it sits inside a real estate operator, a PE portfolio company, a tech business, or a manufacturer.

Volume of placements
F&A First
More successful finance and accounting placements than any other vertical.
Seniority range
Full Stack
Every level of the CFO organization, manager through C-suite.
Repeat client rate
72%
Majority of revenue from clients who've hired through Fletcher Search before.

Seniority range. Full CFO organization.

C-Suite

CFO

Strategic finance leadership. P&L ownership, board-level communication, capital structure, M&A, investor relations.

VP Level

VP of Finance

Senior finance leadership. FP&A oversight, business partnering, financial strategy, often CFO succession track.

Director / Sr. Manager

Controller

Accounting leadership. Financial reporting, close process, technical accounting, compliance, team management.

Director Level

Director of FP&A

Planning and analysis leadership. Forecasting, budgeting, scenario modeling, strategic business partnership.

Manager Level

Finance & Accounting Manager

Functional management. Team leadership, process ownership, bridge between individual contributors and senior leadership.

Senior IC

Sr. Financial Analyst / Sr. Accountant

High-impact individual contributors. Strong technical skills, low ego, high output.

Specialized Practices

Where I go further than most.

Two practice areas built through years of recruiting exclusively inside these markets. The hires here are referral-driven and judgment-heavy. Most finance recruiters can't credibly operate in either.

01

Financial Services & Banking

Years of recruiting inside banking, private credit, SBA lending, and specialty finance have built a network and market knowledge that generalist firms simply don't have. From SBA production teams and credit analysts to private credit associates, bank CFOs, and chief lending officers, I know what hiring executives in this space are actually evaluating, and I screen for it accordingly.

SBA BDO · SBA Underwriter · Credit Analyst · Private Credit Associate · Bank CFO · Chief Lending Officer · Loan Originator · CRE Underwriter · Relationship Manager · Portfolio Manager
Fluency built through years of active recruiting inside banking, private credit, and SBA lending, not borrowed from a job description.
02

Trading, Energy & Prop Firms

A practice built through years of recruiting for prop trading firms, FX operations, and energy trading and risk management environments, alongside a personal background as a sell-side FX professional. I know the difference between a funded trader and a discretionary desk, what an ETRM implementation actually requires, and how to find trading professionals in markets where everyone already knows everyone.

FX Trader · Prop Trader · Trading Operations · Risk Manager · ETRM Specialist · Energy Credit Risk · Trade Settlements · Quantitative Analyst · Trading Technology
Sell-side FX background, systematic strategy research, and active recruiting relationships inside prop firms and ETRM environments.
Engagement Models

Three ways to engage. Built around how you actually hire.

Search shouldn't feel like an ER bill. Every engagement is handled personally. The model adjusts to what you actually need, with productized pricing that's transparent before kickoff and structured to fit your hiring cadence rather than reset to lottery economics on every search.

Flat-Fee Search

Per Hire · Single Searches

Predictable fixed fee for one-off searches. Controller, Director of Finance, VP, or CFO. Single seats you want filled well, with no surprise invoice tied to comp.

  • Fixed fee, agreed before kickoff
  • Full sourcing, screening, and Fletcher Candidate Brief on every finalist
  • Coordinated interview process and offer support
  • Reference checks up to three per finalist
  • 90-day replacement guarantee
Typical Range
$15K – $40K by seniority
Most Popular

Embedded Talent Partner

Month-to-Month · Multi-Seat

I run as an extension of your team. Dedicated bandwidth, market intel, and continuous candidate flow across the function for companies hiring five or more seats a year.

  • Up to three active searches at any time
  • Weekly cadence with your designated point of contact
  • Monthly market intelligence report
  • Quarterly Business Review
  • 90-day replacement guarantee on every placement
  • Cancel anytime, 30-day notice
  • One name to call across the function
Typical Structure
$5–8K/mo + $7–10K/hire

Annual Cohort

Fixed Annual · Procurement-Friendly

For PE platforms and banks with planned hiring cadence. Fixed annual fee, quarterly billed, with a defined hire cap and overage protection. A budget line item.

  • Annual commitment, quarterly billing
  • Defined hire cap with overage protection
  • Same scope and SLAs as Embedded
  • Cancel anytime, pro-rata credit on unused months
  • Designed for procurement and finance teams
  • Sponsor- or portco-level engagement
Typical Structure
$120 – 200K/yr up to 10–15 hires
Fletcher Interim Finance Network

Senior interim coverage when you need it.

In addition to permanent search, Fletcher Search operates a small, curated network of senior F&A leaders available for interim and fractional engagements. Interim CFOs, Controllers, VPs of Finance, and Fractional CFOs for PE-backed and founder-led mid-market companies.

For Clients

Senior interim coverage during a transition, an active search, a special project, or post-acquisition integration. The network is built around quality of bench rather than size. Fewer, better matches.

For Senior Advisors

Retired, semi-retired, and independent senior F&A leaders interested in substantive engagements without rebuilding the marketing, contracting, and collections side of independent consulting work. The Network handles the rest.

Discuss an Interim Engagement For Senior Advisors
My Edge

What separates this from every other recruiter you've tried.

01

You work with me. Start to finish.

You hire Bryan Fletcher and Bryan Fletcher works your search. No handoff, no junior associate running screens in the background, no bait-and-switch after the kickoff call.

02

Real market knowledge. Honestly earned.

A decade on the sell-side in spot FX and as an NFA-registered fund manager across seven asset classes. Years of recruiting exclusively inside banking, private credit, SBA lending, prop trading, and ETRM environments.

03

The Fletcher Candidate Brief.

I don't send resumes. Every candidate submission includes a plain-English write-up: production metrics or technical depth, leadership indicators, compensation context, and a direct recommendation.

04

Fewer searches, worked harder, finished.

I take on fewer searches than most because I finish them. When I commit to a search, it gets completed with the same urgency and quality on week six as week one.

The Process

From intake to offer. No surprises along the way.

1

Deep Intake

Not a form. A real conversation. I want to understand the role technically, culturally, and strategically before making a single outreach call.

2

Active Market Mapping

Direct outreach to passive candidates in my network. I target people who are performing well, not just those who happen to be looking.

3

The Candidate Brief

Multi-stage vetting followed by the Fletcher Candidate Brief: a plain-English assessment of each finalist before you spend an hour of your time.

4

Close & Transition

Active management through offer, counter-offer, and resignation. I stay involved until day one, not just until you say yes.

Client Testimonials

What clients say.

"

I have not been able to stump him yet in dozens of searches over 6+ years working with him. He is unmatched in how quickly he turns around high-quality candidates with detailed write-ups on each which make it easy to quickly identify which I want to interview most. Bryan keeps at it too; he never stops screening and presenting the best candidates until the search is complete. I highly recommend Fletcher Search to any busy hiring executive who needs high quality with speed and who is tired of the spray-and-pray approach of most recruiters.

Richard BayyoukDirector, Financial Services · MMC Group
"

I have had the pleasure of working with Bryan on multiple occasions over the last few years. Bryan has consistently and quickly produced top-quality prospects in a very competitive hiring environment. To take this further, I am willing to speak as a reference anytime to people especially if they seem on the fence.

Adam RiceCFO · SWK Holdings
Insights

From the desk of Fletcher Search.

Market observations, hiring guides, and plain-English advice from six-plus years of finance and accounting search. The Fletcher Brief, my monthly market and hiring dispatch, drops first Tuesday of each month.

The Fletcher Brief · Monthly Newsletter

Markets · Hiring · Dallas.

A five-block dispatch covering what's moving in the markets I work in, what that means for hiring in DFW and nationally, and the trend-following frame I apply to recruiting that nobody else in executive search is writing about.

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About Bryan Fletcher

I've been in the room.

Bryan Fletcher, Fletcher Search

Fletcher Search exists to place the hire that moves your business forward, in markets where most recruiters wouldn't know where to start. Before recruiting I spent a decade in financial services: sell-side in spot FX at FXCM, then as an NFA-registered fund manager across seven asset classes. That background is why I recruit the way I do. I know what real performance looks like in a market, not just on a resume.

I started Fletcher Search to work directly with clients and candidates, not to build a firm and step away from the work. Several years in, I still personally work every search, and the majority of revenue comes from clients who've hired me more than once.

Finance and accounting is the core of what I do, the function where I've placed the most people, built the deepest relationships, and developed the most market knowledge. The specialized practices in banking, trading, and energy came from years of recruiting exclusively within those markets, developing fluency that most finance recruiters simply don't have.

The practice is deliberately narrow and the workload is deliberately constrained. I take on fewer searches because I finish them, and because the work I want to do can't be done at volume.

If you're a CFO trying to fill the seat that's holding the business back, a CLO building a lending production team, or a prop firm COO looking for trading operations talent, the conversation will feel different from the first call.

6+
Years in Search
10+
Years in Finance
7
Asset Classes
100%
Personal Execution
Markets I've worked in or recruited exclusively within Spot FX · Sell-Side Fund Management · SBA Lending · Prop Trading · FX Brokerage Operations · Energy Trading & ETRM · Private Credit · Community Banking
Get In Touch

Ready to find the right person?

Whether you're filling a critical seat, evaluating an embedded talent partner engagement, need contract or interim coverage fast, or looking for a specific professional in a specialized market, reach out directly. I personally respond to every inquiry, usually the same business day.

Bryan Fletcher, Managing Principal

Fletcher Search
Dallas–Fort Worth, TX · Nationally Active

bryan@fletchersearch.com
469-994-9924
linkedin.com/in/bryanfletcher01

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