Meet Accounting Staff

Est. 1998  ·  Upper Midwest

We introduce careful people to careful firms.

For twenty-six years, our little outfit has helped family businesses and local CPA shops find the bookkeeper, controller, or tax preparer who actually fits. No big database. No cold calls. Just folks we know, placed with folks we know.

26years placing
140+firms served
4of us, total
0cold calls, ever

The short version.

We're a four-person shop — my mother started it at the kitchen table in '98 — and we do one thing: we help small accounting departments and local tax practices find good staff. Not "candidates." People. People with names and kids and favorite diners.

Our rolodex isn't big, but it's deep. When a controller in the region is thinking about a change, we usually hear about it over coffee six months before anybody posts a job. When a family firm needs a second set of eyes on the books come tax season, they call us because we already know a semi-retired EA who'd be tickled to help.

That's the whole pitch. It's slower than the big agencies. It's quieter. It works because everyone involved already knows somebody who knows somebody.

What folks come to us for

Bookkeeping placements

Full-charge, part-time, or seasonal. Mostly for construction outfits, clinics, farms, and the odd nonprofit. Folks who know their way around a reconciliation and don't mind a messy file cabinet.

Controllers & CFO-for-a-day

When a growing business outgrows its bookkeeper but isn't quite ready for a full-time CFO. We know several veterans who'll come in one or two days a week and keep the wheels on.

Tax season help

Every February the phone starts ringing. We place preparers and reviewers — EAs, CPAs, and a few sharp seasonals — into local practices that need an extra pair of hands through April 15th.

A way we like to work.

We don't take listing fees. We don't post jobs on the big boards. We don't send you a stack of resumes to sort through on a Friday afternoon.

What we do is: we listen to what you actually need — the personality of the office, the software you're stuck on, whether Grandma still signs the checks — and then we make one or two careful introductions. Usually over coffee. Usually the right fit the first time.

When it works, it works for years. We've got bookkeepers who've been in the same family firm since the Clinton administration, placed by my mother, still sending us Christmas cards.