Featured Opportunities
Here are a few of the active searches that we're working on across California. Many of the roles we place aren't advertised, so please get in touch if you'd like to discuss in more detail.
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Featured search
Tax & Accounting Manager
Murrieta, CA
$150,000
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$185,000
per year
This is the first hire into a brand new office, with the current lead moving to partner next year and real room to grow into a leadership role as the team builds out. Clients are entrepreneurs only, advisory-heavy, not compliance churn. Loads of opportunity for growth, and for the right person this could be a career defining move.
Featured search
Senior Manager - Partner-Track
La Jolla, San Diego, CA
$180,000
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$200,000
per year
The incoming partner inherits an existing San Diego client base built over nearly two decades, not a blank page, and takes on client relationships directly from day one rather than reviewing from behind the scenes.
Featured search
Tax Manager
San Jose, CA
$150,000
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$200,000
per year
This owner has turned down repeat private equity buyout offers to keep the practice independent, and he gives staff real room to work unsupervised, including longtime team members who set their own remote schedules once trust is established.
Featured search
Senior Tax Manager - HNW
San Francisco, CA
$160,000
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$220,000
per year
This firm shares its books with staff, not just its clients. You will see the full financial picture of the business you are helping lead, and a senior hire made partner here within six years of joining.
Featured search
Senior Tax Manager / Director
Petaluma, CA
$150,000
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$220,000
per year
Two partners here are retiring and handing off their books right now, with the local leaders replacing them stepping into national roles. That leaves real leadership gaps at a firm with leadership development training, AI focused executives and a real push towards making tax seasons more sustainable.
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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 Partners
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.
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.
Technical Vetting
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.
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.
Insights
Our observations on hiring, retention, and career movement in public accounting across California.
