Alternative Asset Manager Finance Search

Finance leadership for alternative asset managers.

The people who keep the funds, the investors, and the auditors in order.

Alternative asset managers are a focus and a growing practice for Hazeltine Executive Search. We run retained searches for finance leaders at hedge funds, private credit, real estate and infrastructure managers, multi-strategy platforms, and fund-of-funds.

Roles we recruit

Fund CFOs, fund controllers, chief accounting officers, and heads of fund accounting and finance at the management company level.

Fund CFO

Fund and management company finance, investor reporting, audit, and regulatory readiness.

Fund Controller

NAV review, administrator oversight, capital calls and distributions, waterfall and carry.

CAO and Head of Fund Accounting

Policy, valuation process, audit lead, and a team that scales across funds.

What's different about these roles

These roles are different from operating company finance.

The person you hire has to oversee the fund administrator, not just trust it.
They own investor reporting that LPs read closely.
They work through valuation policy and the audit that tests it.
They keep the firm ready for SEC exams and regulatory filings.
They get carry and waterfall calculations right, because mistakes there are expensive and public.

When these hires happen

These hires often come at a turning point. A firm goes from one fund to several, adds a strategy, or brings work in-house that used to sit with an administrator. The finance leader who fit the first fund may not be the one to build the platform.

How we search

The right experience. We screen for people who have done that work at a firm like yours, at your stage.
Quiet searches. We don't post the role and we don't name the client in early outreach.
A Position Package candidates watch. Candidates hear about the role from your hiring manager on video, before the first call.
We pick up the phone. We build a targeted list for every search, and our first outreach is a phone call.

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Questions

Do you recruit for management companies or the funds?

Both.

How is this different from your private equity work?

PE work focuses on sponsors and their portfolio companies. This is a separate, growing practice for managers across hedge funds, credit, real assets, and multi-strategy.

How we reach candidates

We pick up the phone.

A lot of recruiting is LinkedIn InMails and emails sent out in bulk, hoping something sticks. We build a targeted list for every search, and our first outreach is a phone call. The best finance leaders aren't scrolling job boards or talking to five recruiters. They get plenty of messages and very few calls. Across hundreds of searches, the phone call has found our best candidates, the ones who weren't looking. Then the Position Package lets them see the hiring manager and the role on video before the first interview.

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Hiring a fund CFO or controller?

Call our office at (832) 371-6235.

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