Placing the people who close the books and the people who run the floor.
Berggreen Group is a boutique executive search firm in Atlanta placing finance, accounting, and manufacturing leaders across the Southeast. One firm, a small number of searches at a time, and every candidate screened personally before a single name reaches you.
What I search
Two practices, one firm
Both sides of a business, the people who own the numbers and the people who own the floor. Retained and contingency.
Finance and accounting
Controllers, FP&A leaders, accounting managers, cost accountants, and finance directors. The screen goes past the resume into how someone actually closes a month, builds a forecast, or survives an audit.
Finance and accounting searchManufacturing and operations
Plant managers, production managers, quality and ISO specialists, continuous improvement leaders, and operations directors. Searches run across precast and building products, injection molding, metal fabrication, and industrial manufacturing.
Manufacturing and operations searchHow it works
How a search runs
Four stages, and you hear from me at every one of them.
Scope
We define the role, the comp band, and what “right” actually looks like for your team — not a generic job description.
Search
Real conversations with people who trust the caller. Not applications from strangers.
Present
A short, vetted slate — not a stack of resumes. Every candidate has been screened against your actual requirements.
Close
Reference checks, offer strategy, and staying in the deal through acceptance — not disappearing after the interview.
Why boutique
What is different about working this way
Senior-led, start to finish
Every search is led by a senior recruiter who owns it from scope to close. You get real judgment on each candidate and a single point of accountability the whole way through.
Short slates, not resume volume
Four candidates who genuinely fit beat twenty forwarded resumes. You should be able to read a whole slate in ten minutes and want to meet most of it.
Flags disclosed up front
Comp misalignment, work authorization, tenure gaps, relocation risk. Anything that could kill the hire in week six goes in the write-up in week one.
A limited number of searches at a time
Boutique is not a marketing word here. Carrying fewer searches is what makes the direct outreach and the personal screening possible.
Who I work with
The businesses these searches run for
Most clients are manufacturers or businesses where finance and operations have to talk to each other. That is why both practices sit under one roof.
Manufacturers
Precast and building products, plastics and injection molding, metal fabrication, and industrial manufacturing. Usually single-site or small multi-site operations where one hire genuinely moves the business.
Private equity backed businesses
Portfolio companies building out a finance function or replacing a plant leader on a deadline. These searches usually call for discretion and speed.
Family and founder owned businesses
Companies hiring their first real controller or CFO, or bringing in outside operational leadership for the first time. These need a recruiter who can sell the business as well as the role.
Companies hiring both sides at once
A business adding a plant controller and a plant manager in the same year deals with one search firm that understands both roles and both hiring managers, instead of briefing two.
Questions
Common questions
What people ask before they pick up the phone.
What roles does Berggreen Group place?
On the finance side, controllers, FP&A leaders, accounting managers, cost accountants, audit and compliance hires, and finance leadership up through CFO. On the manufacturing side, plant managers, production managers, quality and ISO specialists, continuous improvement leaders, and operations directors. The common thread is roles where someone owns a number or owns a floor.
Do you work retained or contingency?
Both. Which one fits depends on the seniority of the role, how confidential the search needs to be, and how quickly you need a slate. We settle that at the scoping call before any work starts.
What areas do you cover?
Atlanta and the Southeast are home, and that is where the network runs deepest, across Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Florida. Searches run outside the region and remote when the role calls for it.
What makes a boutique firm different from a large search firm?
At a large firm your search is one of many on a recruiter's desk, and the person who sold you the search is usually not the person running it. Here it is one recruiter carrying a small number of searches, which buys you a longer scoping conversation, more direct outreach, and a shorter slate.