Partner Jaron Chatterley shares what we really look for in hires

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An accountant who only records transactions won't make it through our interview. Compliance is the bare minimum. What we’re really looking for is what clients pay for.  That's not a knock on the work.

If the financials aren't true, accurate, and timely, the rest of the conversation doesn't happen.  But the part our clients actually pay for sits one level up.  

We hire for two skills at once: zoom in and zoom out.  

Zooming 𝗜𝗡 is competence and discipline. Three engagements running in parallel. None of them slipping. Every entry right. Every deadline held.  

Zooming 𝗢𝗨𝗧 is courage. Clients bring us in because they've hit a wall they couldn't get past themselves. If they could've, they would've already.

So we have to call the hard thing in the room and back it up. The accountants who do both see two things at the same time: the work paper and the strategy. They understand what a transaction means for the business, beyond how it gets recorded.

Compliance is the floor. Insight is what Connor Group clients come back for.

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