The best talent doesn't apply. It's found.
Talent Haus is a boutique search partner for companies building finance and accounting teams.
What we place
Accounting and finance. Only accounting and finance.
Industry agnostic, function specific. From the first staff accountant to the CFO who takes the company through its next chapter.
Leadership
- Chief Financial Officer
- VP of Finance
- Controller
- Director of Finance
Management
- Accounting Manager
- Finance Manager
- FP&A Manager
- Cost Accounting Manager
Core & analysis
- Senior Accountant
- Staff Accountant
- Financial Analyst
- Cost Accountant
- Accounts Payable / Receivable
Who we work with
The people who own the hire.
Hiring managers
Controllers, VPs of Finance and CFOs who need a specific person on the team and do not have weeks to screen for them.
Founders & owners
Leaders at smaller and founder-led companies making a first senior finance hire, or replacing one that did not work out.
Investors & operators
Private equity and venture teams building out portfolio finance functions, often across several companies at once.
Industry agnostic. Function specific.
- Private Equity & VC Portfolio
- Technology & SaaS
- Manufacturing & Aerospace
- Real Estate
- CPG & Food and Beverage
- Healthcare & Biotech
- Professional Services
- Nonprofit & Higher Education
- Startups & Founder-Led
How we work
Consultative from the first call. Involved through the offer and beyond.
Large firms hand you from the person who sold you to whoever is working the requisition that week. Here, the recruiter you meet is the recruiter who runs your search.
Discovery
A real conversation about the business: the pain points, the team, the good, the bad and the ugly. We will not mislead a candidate, so we need the whole picture before we start.
Market calibration
What the role pays, who is actually available, and what is realistic. Honest coaching up front, so you do not spend six weeks interviewing people who are not close.
Targeted search
Our network plus direct, creative outreach to people who are employed and not looking. Nobody on the shortlist came from a job board.
The shortlist
Two or three candidates who check most of the boxes, technically and culturally. Each one comes with context on why they fit and what to probe.
Interviews & debriefs
We prepare both sides and debrief after every conversation, so nothing gets lost between rounds and no one is surprised at the offer stage.
Offer, onboarding & beyond
Guardrails through negotiation and start date, then check-ins with you and the hire once they are in the seat. Placements that stick are the whole point.
Ways to work together
Choose the model that fits the search.
Pay only when we place.
Performance-based search. No fee until the right person accepts your offer and starts. A low-risk way to see how we work.
A dedicated, prioritized search.
For senior and hard-to-fill roles, a retained engagement puts your search first in line and gives us the mandate to go deep into the market on your behalf.
A strategic partner for ongoing hiring.
A retained volume model for teams with several roles to fill, at pricing more competitive than a search-by-search agency relationship.
Client satisfaction, guaranteed. If a placement does not work out, we backfill the role at no cost. We also set guardrails from day one and stay in close contact with both you and the hire, so problems surface early and rarely get that far.
What past clients say
Don't just take our word for it.
Client story
“Don't even think twice. Give Jessica a chance, because she will change your life.”
“I've worked with a lot of recruiters. Jessica was the one who actually took time to understand what mattered and stayed involved the entire way through. I can't recommend her enough.”
“Jessica is hard-working and goal-oriented, with warmth that makes everyone comfortable. She's excellent at keeping things moving even through tight deadlines and unexpected changes.”
“Jessica has been a key player for us. After our fundraise we needed to build out our finance team fast, and she consistently found the right people for the right roles.”
For candidates
The roles worth having are rarely posted.
If you are a senior accountant, controller, FP&A lead or CFO thinking about what comes next, we would like to know you before the right search opens. Confidential, and never a fee to candidates.
Working with candidates
Founder
Jessica Kovacevich
A decade recruiting exclusively in finance and accounting, from the first staff accountant to the CFO.
Jessica founded Talent Haus after rising from executive recruiter to award-winning director at a specialist accounting and finance search firm, where she placed controllers and CFOs for companies across the country. She chose the function deliberately: finance is the backbone of every business, and the people who run it well are worth finding the hard way.
Let's connect
Tell us about the search.
Jessica reviews every inquiry personally and follows up to schedule a discovery call.
- Emailtalent@talent-haus.com
- LinkedInTalent Haus on LinkedIn
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