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Aerio Partners
Finance · Accounting · Corporate Operations · Nationwide

Mission-critical search and talent advisory for complex companies.

Aerio Partners helps companies identify, evaluate, and hire high-impact talent across Finance, Accounting, Corporate Operations, and other business-critical functions. The goal isn't more resumes. It's stronger hiring decisions.

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37–42 days

typical placement timeline, by role complexity and client process

Nationwide

coverage across senior, professional, and mission-critical roles

Finance & Accounting

core specialization, extending to Corporate Operations, Legal, Sales, Marketing & Operations

Fewer, better

aligned candidates over résumé volume, evaluated well beyond the résumé

Experience across public, private, PE-backed, founder-led, multi-site, and multinational organizations.

Searches we run, coast to coast

Chief Financial OfficerChief Accounting OfficerVP of FinanceVP of AccountingCorporate ControllerAssistant ControllerAccounting ManagerDirector of FP&ATreasury
TaxAuditFinancial ReportingCorporate OperationsGeneral CounselHead of MarketingVP of SalesVP of Operations

Services

Three ways in. One standard.

Every engagement starts with the same question: what does this seat actually need? Then we pick the delivery model to match, not the other way around.

End-to-end one partner, start to close

Mission-Critical Search

For the hires you can't afford to get wrong.

Engaged search for the leadership and specialized roles that move the business: CFO, Chief Accounting Officer, VP Finance, Corporate Controller, and the seats around them. We map the market, evaluate finalists against a profile you helped build, and stay accountable after the start date.

  • Role calibration and a written success profile before any outreach
  • A market map of the companies that grow this kind of talent
  • Direct, discreet approach to the right people, on or off the market
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360° market map per engagement

Talent Advisory

Clarity before you open the search.

Sometimes the fastest way to a great hire is better information. We bring market intelligence, compensation benchmarking, and candidate evaluation so you calibrate the role, the comp, and the profile against what the market will actually bear before you commit.

  • Market mapping of where this talent lives and what moves it
  • Compensation benchmarking against real, current data
  • Success-profile and scorecard design for the role
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90-day replacement guarantee (direct hire)

Specialized & Functional Search

Business-critical roles across the org.

Beyond the core Finance and Accounting anchor, we run specialized search across Corporate Operations, Legal, Marketing, Sales, and Operations wherever a role is genuinely business-critical. Same discipline, tuned to the function in front of you.

  • Coverage across Corporate Operations, Legal, Marketing, Sales, and Operations
  • A curated slate of aligned candidates, not a folder of applicants
  • Evaluation against the role's real success profile, function by function
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Why Aerio

Specialized search, built around the business behind the hire.

Most firms hand you resumes and call it a pipeline. We start with the business: the reporting, the forecasting, the margin, the acquisition, the field operation the hire actually has to run. That's what makes the shortlist right.

Specialized, not generalist

We live in Finance, Accounting, and Corporate Operations, and extend into the functions around them. You get a partner who speaks the language of the role, not a generic staffing desk.

We understand the business behind the hire

Reporting, forecasting, inventory, margin, acquisitions, field operations, process improvement. We calibrate the search to the work the seat actually owns.

Relationship-driven, not transactional

The partner you meet runs your search and stays in it. We'd rather do fewer searches well than flood you with volume and disappear at the offer.

Aligned before introductions

We evaluate compensation, motivation, timing, expectations, and business fit before anyone reaches your calendar. The objective isn't more resumes. It's stronger hiring decisions.

The Aerio Approach

Four stages. No mystery.

You'll know exactly where your search stands every week, because we show you the market, the slate, and the reasoning. Here's the shape of it.

  1. 01Week 0

    Calibrate the role

    A working session to define what success in this seat looks like at month twelve, the business context behind it, and a comp band that matches the market. We put the search plan in writing.

  2. 02Week 1

    Map the market

    We build a map of the companies that grow this talent, then identify and approach the right people directly. Discreetly, when the search is confidential.

  3. 03Weeks 2-3

    Evaluate fit

    We assess compensation, motivation, timing, expectations, role fit, and business fit before anyone reaches your calendar, so you meet aligned candidates, not maybes.

  4. 04Offer & beyond

    Present, then support the close

    We present a slate of aligned talent, manage feedback both directions, and support offer, resignation, and onboarding. If a hire doesn't stick, the assurance kicks in.

Representative searches

A sense of the work.

Representative, anonymized examples of recent searches. Details are generalized to protect client confidentiality.

Automotive & Distribution

Senior Accounting Leadership

Senior accounting leadership search completed for a global automotive and distribution business.

Energy

Corporate Accounting

Corporate accounting search completed for a large energy organization.

Environmental Services

Senior Financial Analyst

Senior financial analyst search completed for a large environmental services organization.

Typical placement timeline runs 37–42 days, depending on role complexity and client process.

The Aerio Assurance

A 90-day replacement guarantee.

For direct-hire placements, Aerio Partners offers a standard 90-day replacement guarantee, subject to the terms of the client agreement. If a placement doesn't work out inside that window, we go back to work.

How the guarantee works
  • Standard 90-day replacement guarantee on direct-hire placements
  • Subject to the terms of the client agreement
  • We stay engaged through onboarding, so fit issues surface early

Questions

Asked before every engagement.

The honest versions, not the sales versions. More detail on the FAQ page.

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Mission-critical search and talent advisory for complex companies. Our core is Finance, Accounting, and Corporate Operations, and we extend into Legal, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and other business-critical roles when a client needs them. If a search is outside our lane, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.

National. We run searches for complex organizations across the country, and where we focus by market is an internal producer decision, not a limit on where we'll work. Bring us the role and the location sorts itself out.

Fees are quoted up front, and there are no extras buried in the fine print. The exact number depends on the seniority and difficulty of the role, so bring us the seat and you'll get a straight quote on the first call.

A typical placement runs 37 to 42 days, depending on role complexity and your process, with a calibrated first slate landing well before that. The speed comes from the calibration and market work up front, not from recycling whoever's already in a database.

The seat is costing you more every week it's empty.

Tell us what you're hiring for. You'll get a straight read on the market, the comp, and a realistic timeline within days.

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