An Unconditional Guarantee

We 'put our money where our mouth is', in two ways, not just one:

1. Money back

We offer an unconditional money back guarantee - if at any point during the search process you are unhappy with progress, simply address the fact with us and if you are still not 100% satisfied after that discussion, we will cheerfully and unconditionally, refund every cent you have paid as a retainer. No quibbles, no hassle, guaranteed, period.

2. Twelve month candidate guarantee

All candidates placed by us are guaranteed for a full 12 months. If, during this period they leave your firm, for any reason whatsoever, we will conduct an additional search, completely free of charge, until a suitable replacement has been found.

Quality Search Firm Experience

Our founder, Steve McIntyre-Smith has been a candidate and a client of search firms throughout his career in public accounting and has spent several years in Canada working with one of the GTA's leading 'boutique' CA search firms.

He was Vice President of one of Canada's biggest and longest-established executive search firms, heading their accounting and finance practice, and since early 2002 has been (and continues to be) the human resources columnist for Canada's financial newspaper, 'The Bottom Line'.

Only Public Accounting

MFA Group Inc is a specialist consulting organization who ONLY work with public accounting firms, on marketing, practice management, strategic planning, recruiting, training and mergers & acquisition projects.

As a result, we know the public accounting marketplace better than any search firm in the GTA.

No Learning Curve = Quick Results

This in-depth knowledge means that you have no learning curve to guide us through when discussing a hiring need - we 'get it' straight away.

We also appreciate, when a hiring situation occurs, that time is of the essence, and that you want results from your recruiting partner.

Specialization

Some of our competitors would take on your assignment, but also search for a wide range of other people, from retail store managers to forklift drivers, and from manufacturing workers and labourers to call centre representatives.

That begs the question: 'What do these people really know about the accounting profession?'

The answer often lies within the level of service provided by these firms; the accuracy and detail of the job descriptions, the quality of candidates presented, recruiting methodology used and the time taken to find suitable candidates.

Value For Money

Unlike working for a fortune 500 company, working with a Partner in a public accounting firm means that you are investing your own funds into a search, not dipping into the limitless coffers of a public company.

So a fee scale based on 30% to 33% of the successful candidate's first year salary just doesn't cut it for you.

We fully appreciate that, with Steve having been a partner in a public accounting firm and a sole practitioner for many years, so we have developed a service menu and pricing system designed to deliver maximum value for money to our clients.

Exit Interviews

We offer to conduct, free of charge, exit interviews with people leaving your firm, in order to get a deep insight into what the reasons were for their decision to see if anything can be learned from this experience that will help make the firm a better place to work in the future.

Realistic Salary Counsel

As we know the public accounting field intimately, we are able to offer counsel on salary levels for your firm, to help keep ahead of the curve and ensure that you are aware of what is available elsewhere for your staff. This helps you to develop a winning employee value proposition.

We publish an annual salary guide, available as a 'pdf' file from this site, free of charge.

Staff Coaching

We can help you identify the rising stars within your firm and develop tailored programs to help you develop them. This helps you to provide a more rewarding, enjoyable and professionally challenging work environment.

Talent tends to gravitate towards (and then stay at) places where people are continually stretched and growing as professionals and individuals.

In turn, these professionals provide a better return on investment to their employers by being more productive and capable of managing higher value projects sooner than their less capable peers.

Mentoring Tomorrow's Partners

Public Accounting is a tough profession. First an individual has to tackle highly demanding professional exams, while still performing at their peak in a full-time job.

Once qualified, if they want to make it to Partner level, they will have to acquire some critical new skills, fairly quickly as they start to take on more responsibility with clients and provide leverage for today's Partners:

• People skills
• Communication skills
• Delegation skills
• Time Management
• Practice Development skills
• Networking Skills

Fortunately these skills can be acquired through an effective mentoring program, but usually the very people within the firm that have the capability to pass-on such valuable experience are the ones who least have the time to do so. That's why we created www.partnerbootcamp.com!

Rising Stars

We work with a number of firms, to provide a mentoring service to their rising stars, teaching the key skills they will need to develop their careers within the firm and to add value to the clients they work with in the interim.

This service is usually sponsored by their employers, but we also work directly with some CAs and CGAs who see the value in investing in themselves.

This is also covered by our 100% satisfaction guarantee.

To get your project started today, or if you just want an informal, confidential discussion, please call our Steve McIntyre-Smith at 905-842-2284, or visit our brand new CA recruiting web site at: www.ifindcas.com.

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