ABOUT
After graduating from the University of Arizona with a finance degree, I started my career as a Wall Street Broker where I learned the value of proactively listening for details and witnessed the rewards of taking a long term investment approach. More recently, I’ve spent the last decade and a half as an executive recruiter with a national firm based in Phoenix. The keys to my sustained success lies in a combination of passion (for life, helping others and learning), steadfast integrity, continuous drive to gain new knowledge & experience, humility and complex problem-solving while always putting my client's and candidate's interests ahead of my own. My goal from the beginning has always been to serve the Arizona market as the best respected and trusted Accounting, Finance, and Operations recruiter.
Originally from a small town in Ohio, I was raised on strong Midwest values and taught to above all, be honest, patient, firm but fair, centered, and view money as a tool or byproduct of the right behaviors, not the bane for all activities. The best way to achieve my goal is to build transparent, trustworthy, and mutually beneficial relationships through the hard work of extensive market research that identifies the most respected companies, candidates, and hiring managers based on reputation, referrals, and in-person meetings.
My greatest communication skill is being a proactive listener and really understanding the underlying intent of someone’s message ... just ask my wife! Everyone has different strengths, experiences, and talents and my gift is to recognize and align them with a client's strategic need or to identify when the right future opportunity arises for my confidential candidates (based on their desired: role, culture, challenge, compensation, commute, etc.).
Both as an Executive Recruiter & Wall Street Broker, I’ve always prized relationships as the real asset and have applied a disciplined, selective, and patient approach to yield the most productive results. I started my own practice because the larger recruiting agencies embody a call center mentality, focused on volume, short term revenue goals, and view both their staff, clients, and candidates as a commodity. Conversely, I view relationships as a valued investment that over time and careful cultivation will produce the most meaningful returns ...and I’ve bet “my farm" on this conviction.
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CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND
Founder & Principal
w: 602.824.8646
m: 602.684.6894
e: christopher@rowlandresources.com
in: christopherrowlandphoenix
MISSION STATEMENT
My mission is to build the most trusted and results-driven Accounting, Finance, and Operations search practice in Arizona ...one handshake at a time.
After 15 years in the recruiting industry, I've gained invaluable experience yet I'm still excited by what new trend, business, or person I'll meet or learn about each day. I’m honored to be trusted by my clients to identify key players for their highly impactful or hard to fill technical roles. I also take great pride in having successfully signed an elite list of F500, private equity & privately held firms and being empowered to negotiate complex executive compensation packages on behalf of the talented professionals I represent.
In the end, I love being the “silent partner” because I'm able to be instrumental in helping individuals find better career opportunities while helping my clients identifying the right mix of skill, leadership, and cultural fit to achieve their organizational goals.
WHY ROWLAND RESOURCES
When you engage ROWLAND RESOURCES search practice you will be represented by a highly driven, ethical, and results focused professional with 15 years of executive recruitment experience that combines a wealth of unique experiences and who’s seamless process yields bullseye results.
Over the course of my career I've always been driven by quality and by leveraging my core values and strength of character able to build lasting partnerships. These characteristics include being honest, transparent, acute listener, highly efficient through meticulous organization, patient and having a genius level emotional intelligence or "EQ". The high EQ coupled with the vast range of personal and professional experiences enables me to quickly ascertain an opportunity based on team culture, leader's character, company's business model, competitive advantage & financial viability and align them with a candidate's select profile (skills, experience, career goals and personal preferences) to save time and ensure both the immediate critical deliverable requirements and long term goals & strategic growth needs are addressed.
FOR CLIENT | COMPANY
One of the best lessons I learned was from a “salty” veteran the first month I started recruiting. He said to always remember to treat every client like it was my first. I took this sage advice and have continuously built my network never forgetting the excitement and value in having a sincere relationship.
In the simplest terms, I view myself as an extension of your team and enjoy learning not only about the open role but your unique business model, leadership philosophy and team culture. This knowledge coupled with active feedback and timely communications will enable me to accurately identify just the right talented professional to bring to your attention.
Another way I’m able to assure mutual success is the fact that over the course of my career I’ve developed a thorough screening process that will reveal an individual's character, technical prowess & degree of experience, ambition, motivation for change, sense of urgency, and level of effective communication skills, etc.. When I’m engaged on your search, my passion and natural curiosity loves to solve these types of complicated equations and I’ll efficiently and effectively be able to match in-depth profiles with opportunities to find the ideal blend of technical skills, career development & timing and cultural fit for your team.
The final way I’ve always been successful lies in my steadfast respect for following a time-tested process for each phase of the recruiting process (including: taking job specs, client visits, complete candidate profile screening, interview prep, debrief, references, presenting offers, negotiating terms/contracts, etc.). I don’t cut corners which means some competitors have been able to find success quicker but it’s never sustainable. My optimized process is seamless and built to last. I will also follow and respect your organization’s recruitment process or protocols because I understand they are put in place for good reason.
I look forward to hearing from you and discussing your search criteria as I would enjoy solving this impactful equation for your team.
Types of Titles: Actively cover and have successfully place professionals in the following specialized search categories, including but not limited to all Senior, Manager, Director, Vice President and Executive/C-Suite level roles:
Accounting: Accounting, Audit, Assurance, Attestation, Financial Reporting - Internal, Management & SEC, Compliance, Controls, Risk Management (2nd & 3rd line of defense), Cybersecurity, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM); Technology Audit (IT, ERP, Infrastructure, Data, or Systems), ITGC or General Controls (Applications, Security Access, Mainframes, Serves), Sarbanes-Oxley or SOX, Fraud, Audit Committee Reporting, Cost (Construction), Standard Cost/Costing (Aerospace, Plant & Manufacturing), CPA, CIA, CISA, CISSP, FinOp - Series 24, Principal’s License (Real Estate & Financial Services), PhD’s, Equity Research, Fixed Assets, and Equipment & Real Estate/Lease Accounting.
Finance: All levels of Financial Management and Analysis, Corporate Development, Acquisitions, M&A, Valuations, Due Diligence, Leveraged Buyouts, Buy-Side & Sell-Side, Quantitative & Qualitative Analyst, Transaction Advisory, FP&A, Financial Planning, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Capital Markets, Lending, Debt & Equity (Capital Raising), Sourcing, Mezzanine, Underwriting, Investor Relations “IR”, Board or BOD Reporting, Business Analyst, and Asset & Portfolio Management.
Operational: General Manager (GM) or Management of: Operations, Production, Supply Chain, Procurement, Process, Contract Negotiations, Logistics, Shipping, Distribution, Transportation, Cargo, Packaging, Continuous Process Improvement, Vendor Management, Demand Planning, Inventory, Controls, Six Sigma, Black Belt, Lean, Manufacturing, Warehouse, Facility, Factory, Plant, Materials, Goods, Site, Cost, Line, Training, Program & Project Management, Purchasing, etc..
FOR CANDIDATE
After speaking with more then 10,000 professionals over my career, it’s evident that the 3 most important priorities in most everyone’s life is their faith, family, and career. I take great pride in being trusted to represent your strategic career interests and the confidence placed in me to find, fight, and negotiate on your behalf once the ideal opportunity has been identified.
Another distinctive difference is my disciplined approach to client selection. Since starting in this industry back in 2005, I've been very deliberate and selective with whom I work and by being patient and building strategic relationships, I’ve been fortunate to have gained partnerships with a select list of target client-companies. The criteria that draws my attention to these organizations, beyond having a dynamic or disruptive product / service offering, is a shared standard of ethics, strong thought-leadership, a culture that values & rewards employee contributions and clearly communicates a business plan that personifies sound business judgement. The criteria for my engagement on any opening is one where it’s a unique opportunity that offers my confidential candidates career growth, challenge with an acceptable risk tolerance, building marketable & sought-after technical skills, positive & collaborative culture in a highly visible or impactful role.
Bottom-line: If I’m not excited or wouldn’t personally want this specific opportunity, then neither will you.
CONTACT
I always enjoy meeting talented professionals and discussing market trends, strategic openings, or career goals and would to love to hear from you. Please email or complete the form below and I’ll follow up within 24 hours. Thank you for visiting my site.