Finance talent, end to end
The deadline can't move. Your team is at capacity. I'm the third option.
Interim CFOs and finance executives, senior project consultants, finance transformation and ERP specialists, AI and automation talent, and hard-to-fill placements from contract to permanent, serving Chicago's Golden Corridor.
Serving: CFO | CAO | CAE | CTO | CHRO | CPO | COO
Helping Executive Leadership | Placing Interim Leaders & Consultants | Client Solutions Director, Management Resources @ Robert Half
Every finance leader is fighting the same three battles
A project that's behind
The ERP go-live, the integration, the remediation. The date is fixed. The capacity isn't.
A team past its limit
Your best people are doing two jobs. The close slips. Audit fees follow.
A board asking about AI
You can show what you spent. Can you show what it returned?
I sat in your chair for twenty years
Before Robert Half, I spent two decades running Finance, Accounting, and IT as an operator: building controls from scratch, closing regulator and external audits clean, leading system implementations, and automating the back office of a high-growth company. Then I spent four years implementing AI and automation for regulated businesses. So I don't sell staffing. When a leader tells me the close is slipping, the ERP is behind, a critical seat is empty, or the AI spend isn't returning anything, I know exactly what that feels like at two in the morning, and I know exactly which person to send, because I used to be the person they needed.
The engine behind me
30+ million candidates, 2+ million roles placed, 75+ years, 300+ locations. Robert Half. Repeatedly named among the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune and America's Best Employers by Forbes.
Financial leadership, placed
From a single project consultant to the executive seat itself, one relationship covers every way to engage.
Interim & Fractional Executives
Interim CFOs, controllers, and chief accounting officers who stabilize the function in days. Fractional leadership for companies that need the seniority without the full-time seat.
Project & Contract Consultants
Senior finance, accounting, and systems professionals deployed per initiative. The engagement ends when the work does.
Contract-to-Hire
Fill the hard-to-fill seat now, evaluate in the role, convert when certain.
Permanent Placement & Executive Search
Hard-to-find finance and accounting leaders through Robert Half's proven recruitment and retained search.
Managed & Consulting Solutions
Blended teams combining Protiviti consulting expertise with experienced delivery professionals, scaled to the program.
Hard-to-fill is the specialty, not the exception.
Where my bench earns its keep
Accounting, Finance, Tax, Treasury & Audit
Executing business as usual
- Fractional CFO / Controllership
- Consolidations & Month-End Close
- Financial Reporting: Statutory / SEC / Regulatory & Management
- Technical Accounting
- Audit & Tax / SOX / IFRS / Compliance / Remediation & Controls
- IPO Readiness & Financial Restatements
- Treasury & Cash Management
Finance Transformation
Optimizing process and operations
- Order to Cash (O2C)
- Procure to Pay (P2P)
- Record to Report (R2R)
- Shared Services Optimization
- AI-Enabled Financial Workflows
- Accounting Close Acceleration
- M&A Integration & Carve-Outs
Data, Systems & ERP
Enabling with technology
- Data Readiness for AI
- Data Integration & Migration
- ERP & HRIS: System Implementation, BAU & Post Go-Live Support
- EPM Tools: Reporting, Forecasting & BI
- Project Management
- Change Management
Performance Optimization & Business Analytics
Driving ROI through process and analytics
- Process Improvement
- Working Capital & Cost Optimization
- FP&A & Data Analytics
- Pricing, Predictive Modeling & Scenario Analysis
- Supply Chain & Procurement
- HR, Compensation & Benefits
What executives ask us for
When CFOs and controllers brief me on a seat, the same requirements come up. The bench is built for them:
Day-one readiness
No ramp, no training curve. They have done this exact work before.
Public-company rigor
SOX, SEC reporting, 10-K and 10-Q cycles, and audit scrutiny survived firsthand.
Hands-on plus leadership
Senior enough to run the workstream, willing to do the work itself.
Industry fluency
Manufacturing cost accounting, SaaS revenue recognition, fund and nonprofit accounting, financial services, healthcare, distribution.
Global reporting range
US GAAP and IFRS, multi-entity and multi-currency consolidations, foreign parent close packages.
Transformation scar tissue
ERP implementations, EPM builds, automation rollouts, and the post-go-live cleanup nobody advertises.
Documentation discipline
Process notes, knowledge transfer, and desk procedures left behind, so the value stays when the engagement ends.
Measurable outcomes
Close days cut, forecasting accuracy raised, reconciliations automated, audits passed. Numbers, not adjectives.
Systems fluency across the bench
Our consultants arrive fluent in the platforms you already run, including but not limited to:
ERP & GL Platforms
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP ECC and R/3
- Oracle Cloud and E-Business Suite
- NetSuite
- Workday
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Great Plains
- JD Edwards
- PeopleSoft
- Infor
- Epicor
- Sage Intacct and Sage ERP
- Acumatica
- Deltek
- QuickBooks
- Industry ERPs across manufacturing and distribution
Close, Consolidation & Reporting
- BlackLine
- FloQast
- Workiva (Wdesk)
- Hyperion HFM
- Essbase
- OneStream
- Trintech-class reconciliation tools
- SEC reporting platforms
Planning & EPM
- Anaplan
- Adaptive Planning
- Planful
- Hyperion Planning
- DataRails
- Vena
- Prophix
- Cognos TM1
- Board
- Longview
Automation & Analytics
- Alteryx
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Domo
- QlikView
- SQL
- VBA and advanced Excel automation
- Microsoft Access
- Business Objects
- UiPath-class RPA
- AI copilots for finance (Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise)
AR, AP & Treasury
- HighRadius
- Concur
- Coupa
- Bill.com
- Ramp
- Brex
- Tipalti
- Kyriba and Modern Treasury-class treasury platforms
- Banking and cash management systems
Payroll, HRIS & Tax
- ADP
- Workday HCM
- Paylocity
- UKG
- Rippling
- Gusto
- Deel
- CCH
- Avalara and Vertex-class tax engines
If your platform isn't listed, ask. With a national bench, it's on someone's resume.
From scoping call to deployed talent
Scope the gap
One call. We define the deliverable, the deadline, and the metric that means success.
Profiles in 48 hours
Vetted, senior-level matches. You interview only people who fit.
Deployed in days
On-site or remote. The engagement ends when the work does.
Chicago's Golden Corridor is my home field
Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Itasca, Elk Grove Village, Rosemont, Barrington, and the I-90 corridor out to Rockford, plus fully remote finance teams anywhere. I live in this market, I know its companies, and I publish a monthly brief on what's moving here.
When companies call
Our CFO resigned
Interim financial leadership in the seat within days while the search runs.
Our controller is retiring
Coverage, knowledge capture, and a bench for the transition.
We're behind on our ERP implementation
Project talent and BAU backfill so the go-live and the close both survive.
We have a material weakness to remediate
SOX and technical accounting consultants who have passed auditor retesting.
We just acquired a company
Integration accountants for the opening balance sheet through the first consolidated close.
Our AI tools aren't paying off
Automation specialists who fix data readiness and make the tools return.
Before you book the call
How fast can an interim controller or CFO start?
Typically within days. One scoping call, vetted profiles within 48 hours, and the consultant on-site or remote shortly after.
What types of engagements are available?
Interim and fractional executives, project-based consultants, contract-to-hire, permanent placement and executive search, and blended consulting teams with Protiviti.
What areas do you cover?
Chicago's northwest suburbs including Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Itasca, Elk Grove Village, Rosemont, and the I-90 corridor to Rockford, plus fully remote finance teams nationwide.
What systems do your consultants know?
See the full systems fluency breakdown in the Where I Help section above. If your platform is not listed, ask. With a national bench, it is on someone's resume.