Fidelis Search LLC — It's your move — Finance and Accounting
Atlanta — Est. 2007

The right hire, not just the available one.

A retained executive search firm for accounting and finance leadership. We run full-market mandates — from CFO succession to controllership builds — calibrated to your operating model and your board’s expectations.

Employers: start a searchCandidates
Est. 2007Nearly two decades of Atlanta finance placements
Retained by the Big FourBig Four accounting firms retain Fidelis Search LLC for executive search
CPC, CERSLed by Brian Swaney, trusted advisor to CEOs and executive leadership teams
Trusted by the firms that audit everyone Retained by Big Four accounting firms across Atlanta

For clientsFinance leaders who own the outcome

Every engagement starts with calibration: we map your operating model, your bench, and the mandate — then run a full-market search and deliver a vetted shortlist. Retained, confidential, and fast.

  • Off-market access: the passive CFOs and controllers who never touch a job board
  • Workforce planning across the full finance stack — technical accounting to FP&A
  • Compensation benchmarking grounded in live Atlanta placement data
  • A shortlist you can defend to your board — every candidate referenced and vetted
Discuss your mandate

For candidatesYour career is our concern

At Fidelis Search LLC, your career is our concern. We represent accounting and finance leaders to Atlanta’s best employers — from first-time controllers to sitting CFOs weighing their next chapter. Confidential, and always at no cost to you.

  • Introductions to Atlanta employers you’d never reach on your own — including unlisted mandates
  • A confidential search run entirely off-market
  • Positioning: we frame your track record the way boards evaluate it
  • Candid guidance on comp, timing, and your next move — including relocation to Atlanta
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Why the Big Four call us

When the hire cannot miss, Atlanta calls Fidelis Search LLC.
Retained by Big Four accounting firms

Recommendations

In their words

“I would strongly recommend Brian for all of your staffing needs. He has helped our firm out tremendously over the years and he has always had the utmost integrity. He continues to deliver time and time again.”
— CPA, client

Most of our engagements begin with an introduction. If you know a CEO, board, or CFO who could use this caliber of search, we welcome the conversation.

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The firm

About Fidelis Search LLC

We specialize in helping organizations by connecting them with exceptional leaders, top talent, and proven expertise.

Fidelis Search LLC — It's your move — Finance and Accounting
Brian Swaney, CPC, CERS — Managing Director, Fidelis Search LLC

Brian Swaney

CPC, CERS — Managing Director

“A trusted advisor to CEOs and executive leadership teams.”

Fidelis Search LLC is a retained executive search firm for accounting and finance, headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. For nearly two decades we have mapped Atlanta’s finance talent market — who runs the close, who owns the audit relationship, who’s ready for the next chair — and that map is our clients’ advantage.

Beyond the placement, we advise on the full mandate: internal audit builds, M&A integration, ERP implementations, SOX readiness, and enterprise risk. The search is the entry point; the relationship is the practice. Clients know us for one thing above all: the right person, in the right environment and culture — not just the right résumé.

CPC credentialed since 2008, followed by 5,000+ on LinkedIn.

Practice

Functional expertise, one market

The global firms organize by function. So do we. One difference: every one of these searches happens in Atlanta, where we have placed leaders since 2007.

Financial Officers

The flagship practice. Full-scope CFO mandates — P&L owners, operators, strategists — plus the deputy bench beneath them. This is the work the Big Four send our way.

Controllers & VP Finance

Controllership, FP&A, treasury, and tax leadership. The layer where the close gets owned and the numbers get trusted.

Succession planning

Confidential, year-out succession mapping. Bench strength built before the board asks for it.

Board & audit committee

Audit committee financial experts and board-ready finance leaders. Governance-grade talent for governance-grade rooms.

Positions

Every seat in the finance organization

The full finance org chart — from the back office to the boardroom — placed across Atlanta.

Finance Positions

  • Accountant
  • Accounting Manager
  • Assistant Controller
  • CFO
  • Chief Accounting Officer
  • Controller
  • Cost Accountant
  • Financial Analyst
  • Internal Audit Professionals
  • Public Accounting Professionals
  • SEC Reporting
  • Senior Accountant
  • Staff Accountant
  • Tax Professionals

Accounting Positions

  • Accounts Payable Clerk
  • Accounts Payable Manager
  • Accounts Receivable Clerk
  • Accounts Receivable Manager
  • Billing Clerk
  • Billing Manager
  • Bookkeeper
  • Credit and Collections Clerk
  • Credit and Collections Manager
  • Payroll Clerk
  • Payroll Manager

Insights

Atlanta finance market intelligence

Comp tables, hiring signals, and unfiltered reads on Atlanta’s finance talent market — from the search desk, not a survey.

→Atlanta CFO comp tables

Base, bonus, and equity from live mandates — not last year’s survey.

→The off-market majority

Why Atlanta’s best finance leaders never touch a job board — and how retained search reaches them.

→Succession before the scramble

How Atlanta boards build CFO bench strength a year out instead of a week out.

→Hiring around the audit cycle

When to launch your search so the hire lands before busy season — not during it.

It’s your move.

Building out the finance function or making your own next move — the conversation starts in confidence. Trust Fidelis Search LLC with the mandate.

Contact Brian Swaney, CPC

Connect

Follow the Atlanta finance market with us.

Mandates, market reads, and comp signals — where you already are.

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