Every search is run by a founding partner. No junior recruiters, no resume-blasting, and no conflicting interests.
We don't start a search when we receive a brief - we're already in the market. We maintain ongoing relationships with qualified tax professionals across California, including candidates who aren't actively looking but are open to the right conversation. When you brief us, we're typically matching against a pipeline we already know.
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Define the Role
We work directly with the Partner or Hiring Manager to align on seniority, specialism, compensation, and what makes your firm the right move for a candidate who isn't actively looking.
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Shortlist Presentation
Every candidate is interviewed before you see them. You receive a small number of qualified profiles, not a stack of resumes to sort through.
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Candidate Management
We manage expectations on both sides, which materially reduces counter-offer risk and late withdrawals.
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Post-placement Support
We stay in contact through the start date, throughout the guarantee period, and beyond.
Meet The Team
Every search is led by one of our Partners, here's a bit about them.
Why Faycroft?
A deliberately focused search model, built around technical credibility and commercial alignment.
Partner-led search
Every search is run directly by a Faycroft partner, not delegated to junior recruiters or researchers. We've built our experience in tax recruiting over multiple years, and we run the full process - intake, sourcing, qualification, and delivery.
Vetting by Tax Experience
Our screening is shaped by real tax complexity: K-1 partnerships, Form 1041 estates and trusts, FBAR reporting, passive activity loss rules, Section 1031 exchanges. We assess what candidates have actually prepared and supervised, not just titles or years served.
California Focused
We work exclusively with public accounting firms across California. This gives us deeper market knowledge, stronger candidate relationships, and better alignment on both technical requirements and firm culture.
What People Say About Us
We run searches properly. Here's what that looks like to the people we work with.
How We Can Help
Although tax search is, and always will be, our core offering - here are the different ways we support Partners and Tax Professionals.
Tax Headhunting
Most independent CPA firms hire reactively - post a job description, review whoever applies. The problem is that the best tax professionals aren't browsing job boards. The ones actively applying often have a reason.
We don't start from scratch. We maintain active relationships with qualified tax professionals across California - Senior Associates through Directors/ Partners - including people who aren't looking but are open to the right conversation. When you brief us, we're typically matching against candidates we already know.
Where the right person isn't already in our pipeline, we headhunt directly into the passive market.
The result: shortlists of 2–4 candidates who are genuine fits, most of whom wouldn't have applied to a posting, all interviewed before you spend time on them.
Confidential Candidate Advisory
Most tax professionals can't afford to have their current firm know they're exploring options - especially in tight-knit markets like California where partners talk to each other. We structure our process to protect that confidentiality.
Initial conversations are exploratory and off-the-record. We discuss what you're looking for, what you'd need to see to make a move worth considering, and how firms would likely evaluate your background. No resumes shared, no introductions made, no commitment required.
If we identify a genuine fit, we manage the process discreetly from there. You control when your name gets attached to anything. Nothing moves forward without your approval at each stage.
Talent Market Insight
We speak to tax professionals across California every week - Senior Associates through Partners, across HNW individual, partnership, trust and estate, and corporate specialisms. That gives us direct visibility into compensation benchmarks, firm growth trajectories, partnership track timelines, and what's actually driving people to explore moves.
That intelligence works in both directions. For firms, it means we can tell you what comparable roles are offering, which firms are actively recruiting in your market, and how candidates are weighing opportunities beyond base salary. For candidates, it means we can tell you which firms are genuinely growing their tax practices versus backfilling turnover and where partnership track promises are credible versus aspirational.
This isn't aggregated salary survey data or LinkedIn job posting analysis. It's direct market intelligence from real conversations, updated continuously as we work the market.
