Mike Kinsley

New York, NY

ad1tmr@r.postjobfree.com 646-***-****

SUMMARY:

9+ years of full desk, full cycle contingent and retained experience, global executive recruitment and client development professional. Subject Matter Expert with formal training in the field of accounting, finance, FP&A, audit/assurance, M&A deal advisory, transaction services, financial due diligence, accounting advisory (CMAAS), valuation, SEC reporting, technical accounting, tax and additional unrelated industry verticals. Quantifiable track record for effective, ethical management of the entire sales and recruitment process including business development/candidate sourcing, interview coaching and offer negotiations through offer acceptance and ongoing client/candidate relationship management placing elite candidates into company clients across the publicly traded (SEC), private and non-profit sectors with an industry-agnostic approach and training.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

The Atlantic Group LLC., New York, NY November 2022 - July 2023

Director, Accounting & Finance Executive Search

Responsibilities included identifying high caliber senior – executive level accounting & finance/fp&a candidates and sourcing, recruiting, matching, preparing and debriefing both candidates and clients for interviews to be placed into open requisitions for our NYC & CT offices

Successfully placed 4 executive level candidates in collaboration with colleagues with multiple additional candidates at offer stage and in-process

Quickly and efficiently adapted to Atlantic Group’s main industry vertical focus of the asset management sector (previous recruitment/business development career experience being mainly derived from serving clients in the small, medium and large multinational, corporate/commercial space

Tatum by Randstad, Executive Search, San Diego, CA (Fully Remote) May 2021 – February 2022

Executive Recruiter, Accounting & Finance (Full Desk)

Operating a Full Desk, responsible for Business Development in generating new Job Orders/Requisitions and for Accounting, Finance/FP&A and related roles with a minimum $150k base salary

Confidentially and ethically utilized a multitude of efficient strategies to target recruit and place elite Controller, Director, VP, SVP, EVP, CFO, COO, CEO and additional executive level accounting & finance professionals often in a Retained/Contained format with company Clients across the U.S. with a sector agnostic approach

Collected $70k+ in fees via placement of a C-suite executive

KFORCE, San Diego, California (A&F Division dissolved via CV19 layoffs) May 2019 - May 2020

Executive Recruitment & Client Development Specialist, Accounting & Finance

Ranked #1 of all 61 client relationship specialists for KFORCE’s SW region within the first 7 mos. of employment via collected invoices for 3 direct hire (double ended) placements with avg. (collected) fees of $20k+/placement and additional contractors placed with hourly wages of up to $187.50/hr.

Forged strong presence in the Greater San Diego region with Fortune 500, publicly listed, private and non-profits

Sole associate personally responsible for identifying, qualifying and generating all accounting, finance/FP&A and business analytics job opportunities through strategic networking and consistent approach to partner with elite and exciting companies and provided expert consultation to clients in creating multitude of job requisitions

Cultivated and conducted daily (new) client visits with hiring authorities with medium-to-large listed and private conglomerate organizations in the Greater San Diego market yielding high priority job requisitions and cross-sold IT, administrative and additional job requisitions to appropriate divisions within KFORCE

DAB Global Search, New York, NY February 2017 - May 2019

Director, Accounting & Finance Executive Recruitment

Co-launched and operated boutique accounting & finance focused executive search firm. Negotiated and executed retainer and contingency based placements with clients contributing to $2M+ in collected fees

Regularly conducted in-person and internet-based meetings with partner level clients and candidates across the U.S. and U.K. effectively managing recruitment process and overall expectations

Northbound Executive Search, New York, NY August 2016 – January 2017

Senior Executive Search Consultant. Accounting & Finance

Sourced, cold-called and recruited a pipeline of hundreds of highly qualified executive accounting & finance candidates who were passively seeking new opportunities

Regularly exceeded 200 calls/day and effectively conducted in-person candidate intake meetings for a minimum of 2 candidates/day

Lucas Group Executive Search, New York, NY June 2014 - August 2016

Executive Search Consultant, Senior, Accounting & Finance July 2015- August 2016

Executive Search Consultant, Accounting & Finance June 2014 - July 2015

Attended and completed comprehensive, intensive world-class professional intitial 30 day recruitment training program; utilizing newly learned skills, closed 1st double ended placement in 3rd month of employment for a collected fee of $32.5k as a result

Directly responsible for generating client development and recruitment of accounting and finance professionals as a full desk full cycle executive recruiter

Made Presidents Club, earned Sales Trip and Quarterly Sales Trip in 1st year of eligibility producing in excess of $200k in 1st (true) rookie year

Led Accounting & Finance division 1st year Recruiters in generated revenue in 1st rookie year of all 16 nationwide offices and successfully cross-sold with multiple additional verticals within Lucas Groups' nationawide locations

Promoted to senior executive search consultant in 2nd year of employment and exceeded every KPI goal for each proposed milestone Successfully cross-sold with multiple, additional nationwide Lucas Group locations

Effectively managed a “full-desk”; developed and cultivated new clients across a multitude of industry from early-stage start-ups to leading, publicly traded multinational conglomerate Fortune 500 companies in multiple facets of accounting & finance from sourcing, candidate screening, negotiations to employment offer and continual client/candidate relationship management

Personally responsible for the Carve-out of a brand new pre-IPO Financial Due Diligence practice for a prestigious, NYC based Investment Banking firm which yielded $150k in fees paid for 3 candidates placed who were recruited from a Big 4 Accounting firm

HomeTown Heroes, Inc., (hometownheroesny.com) West Islip, NY January 2009 - January 2014

President, Owner & Operator

Raised $110k in capital to transform vacant, distressed commercial storefront into thriving community cornerstone generating $1M+ avg. annual revenue. Hired, trained and managed staff of 16 employees

Intellian Capital Advisors, LLC, Hauppauge, NY January 2008 - January 2009

Associate, Investment Banking

Provided all buy-side due diligence activities pertaining to clients for turnaround, restructuring and working capital bridge loans

Created financial models and databases in MS Excel to analyze the impact of debt/equity financing on capital and ownership structures. Drafted business proposals, financial statements (historical and pro-forma), management strategies, accounting, IT, marketing, and advertising to assess overall financial condition of prospective firm investments

EDUCATION:

Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, Upper Brookville, NY

Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and Finance, December 2008

LIU Post Pioneers, Lacrosse, Midfield/Attack

G.P.A. 3.81/4.0

SKILLS:

Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and all MS suites, Bullhorn, Maxhire, Taleo, Salesforce, ATS Workday, PeopleSoft, LinkedIn, Boolean Black Belt, Google Gmail, Documents etc., E-Recruiting Expert and Bloomberg Terminal certified with additional proprietary recruiting industry software expertise. Fluent in English and Spanish

ASSOCIATIONS:

National Honor Society, Financial Management Association International (FMA), Phi Theta Kappa, Merit Fellowship Program Leader, Dean’s List (all semesters), Division II Collegiate athlete (Lacrosse), nominated and elected by business peers to become the youngest Member (current) for the West Islip (hometown of mine) Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors

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