Insights

Jim Swartz joins JES as Partner, leading CFO and senior finance search for PE-backed clients.

Buyouts self-select on who has options, not who you can spare. The mechanism, and the fix.

CFOs call capital allocation broken and rarely check results. Three questions that test it.

Roll-up finance is integration work. Four things to test before you hire the platform CFO.

Plans drafted on rate cuts met a hike. Four hiring assumptions that quietly broke.

Merit budgets are flat at 3.5%. The pool that retains leaders is 0.5%. Fix it now.

CFO hires are younger because the experienced pool ran dry. Four signals of readiness.

These three roles are not a ladder. Four questions that reveal which one you need.