Family Office Finance Search

Finance leadership for single-family and multi-family offices.

A growing part of our work. CFOs, Controllers, and finance leaders for single-family offices, multi-family offices, and the businesses they operate.

Hazeltine Executive Search places finance leaders for single-family and multi-family offices. That includes Controllers for the operating businesses a family office owns and CFOs and Controllers for the office itself. It is newer than our energy and industrial work and growing, mostly by referral.

What we place


Operating company Controllers and CFOs

For the businesses a family office owns, often in distribution, logistics, food, industrial, and energy.

Family office CFO and Controller

Multi-entity reporting, investment accounting, tax coordination with outside advisors. Family office CFO search →

Multi-family office finance

CFO and Controller roles covering consolidated reporting across client families, fee billing, and investment accounting.

Hiring for an alternative asset manager? See Alternative asset managers →

What's different about these searches


  • Discretion. Many family offices don't want their name in a job post or a recruiter's pitch. We don't post these roles and we don't name the client in early outreach.
  • Two bosses. An operating company Controller answers to the business and to the family. We screen for people who can do both.
  • Long tenure. Families think in decades. We look for people who want to stay.
A family office had worked with other firms for 12 months and seen 68 candidates without a hire. We placed their CFO in a few months.Search example

Questions


Do you work with single-family and multi-family offices?

Yes.

Can you hire for the businesses a family office owns, not just the office?

Yes. That is where most of our family office work started.

How do you keep these searches quiet?

We don't post the role, we don't name the client in early outreach, and candidates agree to confidentiality before they see details.

Is this your main focus?

Our core is energy and industrial companies and their PE sponsors. Family offices are a growing area for us.

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.

Why we pick up the phone →

What clients say


“Hazeltine has been a wonderful partner in helping us identify high level candidates in developing our organization.”President, single family office

Family office hiring finance leadership?

Call our office at (832) 371-6235.

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