Specialist recruiting · Austin · Dallas · Houston
The finance and accounting talent your business runs on.
Founder-led search from senior accountant to CFO: corporate finance, accounting, and alternative investments across Austin, Dallas, and Houston.
Hiring and prefer to talk? Call or text 512-609-8562
What we recruit
One specialty, every level.
We don’t place everything. We place the finance function. From the senior accountant closing your books to the CFO presenting to your board, and the investment professionals in between.
Senior accountant → VP of finance
Accounting & finance
The corporate finance and accounting core: the roles that keep the close on time and the forecast honest.
Senior Accountant · Accounting Manager · Controller · FP&A · Financial Analyst · SEC Reporting · Tax · Audit · VP of Finance
C-suite & VP leadership
Executive search
Confidential, founder-run searches for the leadership seats that can’t afford a miss, with case studies to show for it.
Chief Financial Officer · Chief Accounting Officer · COO · VP of Finance · Investment Director
Visit the executive search practice →Funds & deal teams
Investments
Talent for alternative investment firms and the teams that work with them, from fund operations to front office.
Private Equity · Private Credit · Infrastructure · Venture Capital · Investment Banking · Corporate Development · M&A · Fund Accounting · Investor Relations · Alternatives
How a search runs
A process with no idle weeks.
Step 1
Intake
A call to define the role, the qualification bar, and the hiring stages, so we’re recruiting to your standard, not a guess.
Step 2
Search & evaluation
Market mapping and direct outreach begin the day you engage us. Only the candidates who clear the bar get submitted.
Step 3
Interviews
Your process, your stages. We manage scheduling, expectations, and candidate communication throughout.
Step 4
Placement
Offer strategy, delivery, and onboarding support. We stay involved until the new hire is in the seat and settled.
Founder-led
Every search is run by the person who built the firm.
At the large firms, the partner wins your business and a junior associate runs your search. Green Lion was built to be the opposite: one specialist with 14+ years placing finance talent, personally on every search from intake to offer.
The recruiter you meet on the first call is the one calling candidates that afternoon.
Results
How the hard searches get closed.
Case study · Executive search
CFO for a top-20 US venture capital firm
The firm relocated its headquarters to Austin and needed a CFO to run complex funds and rebuild processes through rapid growth, at a scale with almost no local candidate pool. We sourced five strong candidates from other markets, all ready to relocate.
Hired from NYC. The firm has since come back to us for eight more searches.
Case study · Executive search
First CFO for a PE-backed manufacturer
A high-growth technology manufacturer needed industry experience, PE relationships, international entity exposure, and hands-on leadership, all in one person. We mapped direct competitors and recruited from inside the industry.
Three finalists strong enough to hire. One exceptional placement.
Insights
The 2026 Texas Talent Report
The annual guide to what finance, accounting, and investment roles actually pay in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Built from real searches and the market data behind them.
One report a year. No drip sequence, no spam.