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"The Right Person
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We place the compliance officers, analysts, and CFOs that financial institutions can't afford to get wrong.
VP Compliance
Regional Bank · NYC
Meet Your Recruiters
Five specialists. Five verticals. Every one of them has placed the exact role you're trying to fill — and knows what separates a strong candidate from the right one.
Placements
340+
Margaret Calloway
Senior Managing Director
I'm looking for the person who reads the Fed guidance before their coffee gets cold — not because they have to, but because they're genuinely curious what changed.
Typical Search
BSA officers, compliance analysts, risk managers for regional banks and credit unions with $2B–$20B AUM
Placements
210+
Daniel Reyes
Principal, Fintech Division
The best fintech finance hire I ever made was a woman who'd run treasury at a payments startup through two pivots and a down round. She didn't need a playbook. She wrote one.
Typical Search
First controllers, FP&A leads, and Head of Finance roles for Series A–C fintechs scaling past product-market fit
Placements
185+
Priya Sundaram
Director, Insurance & Actuarial
Insurance finance is its own language. I look for people who understand GAAP and statutory simultaneously — and can explain the gap between them to a board in plain English.
Typical Search
Chief Actuaries, reserve analysts, and CFOs at P&C carriers, life insurers, and reinsurance firms
Placements
290+
Thomas Wentworth
Managing Director, Asset Management
PE back-office builds are quiet, fast, and consequential. I look for people who can stand up an entire reporting function from a blank spreadsheet — and have done it before.
Typical Search
Fund controllers, CFOs, and operational finance leads for PE firms, hedge funds, and RIAs ahead of fund closes
Placements
120+
Claudia Ferreira
Head of Executive Search
A CFO search isn't a search for a title. It's a search for someone who's already navigated the audit, the acquisition, and the board presentation — and came out with their credibility intact.
Typical Search
CFOs, Chief Risk Officers, and Chief Compliance Officers for institutions managing $500M to $10B in assets
Hiring managers at these institutions have trusted Ledger to fill their most consequential finance and compliance roles.
"Ledger found our VP of Compliance in 8 days. We'd been searching for four months on our own."
Head of HR · Regional Bank · $6B AUM
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Candidate availability — active vs. passive pool depth
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We tell you exactly what the market looks like right now.
You leave with a clear sense of timeline and approach.
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