Accounting & Finance Hiring Insights

Practical guides on hiring, compensating, and retaining Controllers, Tax Managers, and Accounting Managers — written for Minnesota manufacturers and distributors.

Hiring guides & industry insight

Hiring Guides

How to Hire a Controller

A practical guide to scoping, sourcing, and screening a Controller hire for a manufacturing or distribution business.

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Hiring Trends

Why Controller Searches Take Longer Than Expected

The real, structural reasons Controller searches are running past their planned timeline — and what it means for how you budget the search.

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Hiring Trends

The Growing Demand for Tax Managers

Why Tax Manager has become one of the hardest accounting roles to fill, and what's driving demand higher every year.

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Hiring Guides

Signs It's Time to Hire an Accounting Manager

The practical signals that your finance team has outgrown what a Controller can manage alone.

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Salary Guides

Controller Salary Guide for Minnesota

What Controller compensation actually looks like across the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota, and what drives the range.

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Hiring Trends

Tax Manager Hiring Trends

How the Tax Manager market is shifting, and how companies are adapting their searches to compete for a shrinking pool of candidates.

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Hiring Guides

Accounting Leadership Hiring Guide

A practical overview of the Controller, Tax Manager, and Accounting Manager roles, and how to build a hiring plan around them.

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Hiring Guides

Interview Questions for Controller Candidates

A practical set of technical, leadership, and judgment questions to evaluate Controller candidates beyond the resume.

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Team Building

Building a High-Performing Finance Team

How to structure an accounting and finance team so it scales with the business instead of becoming the bottleneck.

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Team Building

Retaining Accounting Leaders

Why Controllers and Tax Managers leave, and what actually keeps them — especially in a market this tight to replace them in.

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