The seats we fill in banking, accounting and finance.
Third-party recruiters for banks, accounting teams and finance leaders, based in Hartland, Wisconsin.
Four practices, one focus: financial roles.
Watervale Search Partners recruits for the people who lend, account for and lead the money side of an organization. We work for employers who need to fill those seats, and with the professionals who fill them.
Most of our work is in Wisconsin and the Midwest, and we have clients nationwide. Each practice below has its own page with the roles we recruit for, how a search runs and the questions people usually ask.
Our practices
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Banking
Lending, credit and bank operations.
Commercial and mortgage lenders, credit analysts, treasury management officers, loan servicing managers and bank accounting specialists, for banks of different sizes.
Banking roles -
Community and regional banks
People with range, for smaller banks.
Lenders, analysts and finance staff for community and rural banks, where one person often covers several disciplines and the right hire may need help relocating.
Community bank roles -
Accounting, tax and audit
Accuracy is assumed. Judgement is the difference.
Accountants, tax professionals and auditors, matched to roles that fit their longer-term goals as well as your deadlines.
Accounting, tax and audit roles -
Controllers and CFOs
Quiet searches for finance leaders.
Controllers and chief financial officers, approached confidentially, with a short list you can trust and close attention at the offer.
Controller and CFO roles
What you can expect when we run a search.
Every search starts with a conversation about the role before anything is committed. From there, the work is about giving you fewer, better candidates and keeping the process moving.
- A short list of screened candidates. Several qualified people for each opening, already screened, prepared and serious about the role.
- References in writing. Detailed reference information with each candidate, including written references.
- Interviews and travel arranged. We line up times and travel so nothing stalls.
- Relocation handled. If the right person lives elsewhere, we help them through the move.
- Straight answers on offers. Honest feedback from both sides and a quick response when an offer is made.
Exploring your next role?
Your resume is never sent to an employer without your knowledge. We talk through what you want next, in the short term and the long term, and give you the details of each role and organization before you decide to interview.
When it is time to meet an employer, we help you prepare, and if the role means a move, we help with that too: community information, realtors, moving cost estimates and cost-of-living comparisons.
Wisconsin first, the Midwest, and clients nationwide.
We are based in Hartland, Wisconsin, and most of our work is in the Midwest. In Wisconsin we have recruited for banks in Dane, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Racine, Jefferson, Fond du Lac and Green counties.