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The Controller who finally closes month-end. The BDO who builds the production. The CFO who earns the seat at the table. Fletcher Search places the hire that moves your business forward — or the contract professional who covers the gap while a permanent search runs. Every engagement is personally run, start to finish.

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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 — 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 — built across six-plus years of active searching, not occasional forays.

Seniority range

Full Stack

Every level of the CFO organization — manager through C-suite — which means I understand how roles connect and what good looks like at each level.

Repeat client rate

Majority

Most F&A revenue comes from clients who've hired through me before. Repeat business in recruiting is a direct signal of candidate quality and search execution.

Seniority Range — Full CFO Organization

CFO

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

C-Suite

VP of Finance

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

VP Level

Controller

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

Director / Sr. Manager

Director of FP&A

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

Director Level

Finance & Accounting Manager

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

Manager Level

Sr. Financial Analyst / Sr. Accountant

High-impact individual contributors. Often the most difficult profiles to find — strong technical skills, low ego, high output.

Senior IC

Industries I've Placed In
Real Estate & CREPrivate Equity & Fund Management Technology & SaaSEnergy & Oil and Gas Financial ServicesBanking & Lending ManufacturingProfessional Services Growth-Stage & Venture-BackedCommodities & Trading HealthcareInsurance
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 — and 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 BDOSBA Underwriter Credit AnalystPrivate Credit Associate Bank CFOChief Lending Officer Loan OriginatorCRE Underwriter Relationship ManagerPortfolio 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 my own 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 TraderProp Trader Trading OperationsRisk Manager ETRM SpecialistEnergy Credit Risk Trade SettlementsQuantitative Analyst Trading Technology

Sell-side FX background, systematic strategy research, and active recruiting relationships inside prop firms and ETRM environments.

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. Every conversation, every screen, every candidate brief comes from the same person who took your intake 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. I know who the top performers are, what good looks like, and what your hiring manager is actually going to ask.

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. You know exactly who you're meeting — and why — before the first call.

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. That discipline is why the majority of my revenue comes from clients who've hired me more than once.

Services

How I can help.

Every engagement is handled personally. The model adjusts to what you actually need — permanent placement, contract coverage, or employer of record infrastructure.

Flagship

Executive Search

A retained-quality search process: deep intake, active market mapping, rigorous vetting, and the Fletcher Candidate Brief on every submission. I work a small number of searches at a time so none gets deprioritized. Permanent, direct-hire placements across all practice areas.

Available Now

Contract & Interim Placement

When you need coverage fast — an interim Controller while a perm search runs, an SBA underwriter to keep production moving, or an ETRM specialist for a defined implementation window — I place vetted contract professionals quickly from my active network. No compromise on quality because the timeline is short.

Infrastructure

Employer of Record & Payroll

Hiring in a new state, bringing on a contractor, or navigating a cross-border engagement? I offer EOR and payroll services so you can move fast without standing up new HR infrastructure. Particularly useful for international firms hiring U.S.-based talent.

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.

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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 Bayyouk

Director, Financial Services · MMC Group

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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 Rice

CFO · 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.

Financial Services · SBA Lending

What to Look for When Hiring an SBA Business Development Officer

Production numbers tell part of the story. Here's what CLOs and Regional Presidents should actually be evaluating — and why most SBA BDO searches go wrong before they start.

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Finance & Accounting

How to Hire a Controller for a Mid-Market Company

The Controller role has evolved. It's no longer just a technical accounting hire — and treating it like one is the most common mistake mid-market CFOs make in the search process.

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Finance & Accounting · DFW Market

Finance and Accounting Recruiting in Dallas-Fort Worth — What's Different

DFW isn't just a big talent market — it's a specific one. What's working, what isn't, and what hiring executives in North Texas need to know right now.

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About Bryan Fletcher

I've been in the room.

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 my 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
Bryan Fletcher — Fletcher Search
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Ready to find the right person?

Whether you're filling a critical seat, need contract 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.

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