Hartland, Wisconsin · the Midwest · nationwide

A finance recruiting firm for banking and accounting teams in Wisconsin.

Watervale Search Partners is a third-party recruiting firm. We fill seats for banks, accounting firms and finance teams, and we talk with professionals weighing their next move.

For employers For candidates

Three colleagues at a bank or accounting firm reviewing a role description together

For employers

A seat to fill at a bank, an accounting firm or a finance team?

Tell us about the role. We will talk through the seat, the team and the market, and how a search would run, before anything is committed.

Book a conversation The seats we fill

A banking, accounting or finance professional on a call about her next career move

For candidates

Weighing your next move in banking, accounting or finance?

Introduce yourself in confidence. We will tell you plainly whether there is a fit, and nothing is shared without your say.

Submit your resume

Services

Three disciplines. One kind of attention.

We work as recruiters for banks, accounting firms and finance teams. Each area has its own kind of candidate and its own kind of employer, and we keep the list short on purpose.

Banking

Lenders, credit analysts, treasury management and the people who keep a bank running.
Community and regional banks

Smaller institutions where one person often covers more than one discipline.
Accounting, tax and audit

Accountants, tax professionals and auditors for firms and finance departments.
Controller and CFO recruiters

Finance leadership, from controller to chief financial officer.

All services

A community bank recruiter's candidate helping a customer at a small-town Wisconsin bank branch

Our niche

Community banks hire differently.

In a community or rural bank, one person often covers more than one discipline, and the people they work beside are the people they serve. We recruit with that in mind.

Lenders, credit analysts and treasury management roles
Wisconsin first; the Midwest and nationwide as the role requires
A direct conversation before any search begins

Talk about a community bank search How we recruit for community banks

How a search runs

Four conversations, in order.

No portal and no stack of resumes. A person on each end of the line, from the first call to the offer.

First

We learn the role

The seat, the team and the market, before any search starts.

Then

We find and screen

We reach the right people and speak with them ourselves.

A few well-prepared candidates, with our honest read on each.

Finally

We stay through the offer

Feedback, scheduling and the final conversation.

About

A Wisconsin firm of banking, accounting and finance recruiters, working across the Midwest.

Watervale Search Partners is based in Hartland, Wisconsin. We work primarily across the Midwest and with clients nationwide, recruiting in one world, the financial one. We know the difference between a community bank and a regional one, a controller and a CFO, a tax seat and an audit seat.

We are a small firm by design. The person you speak with first is the person who runs your search.

Erick Gorecki
Watervale Search Partners, Hartland

Two banking and accounting professionals in conversation by a tall office window, autumn trees outside

Based in Hartland. Working across the Midwest and with clients nationwide.

Hiring or exploring, the first step is the same: a short, direct conversation.

Contact

Start with a conversation.

Tell us a little about the seat or the move, and we will come back to you to set up a call.

Watervale Search Partners
155 E Capitol Drive, Suite 5C
Hartland, WI 53029
262-370-4105