Accounting & Finance Staffing in Miami, FL

Contract accountants bill at a loaded hourly rate, and direct-hire placements run a percentage of first-year base, usually 20% to 25% depending on role seniority and the Miami market. We quote the number upfront.

No padded fees, no surprise line items, and every direct-hire placement carries a replacement guarantee. Miami keeps steady pressure on the local finance pool because the banks, the multinationals, and the cruise lines all recruit from it at once, and a bilingual accountant with cross-border chops is rarely idle. According to the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, accountant and auditor employment keeps growing through 2033, and a magnet metro like Miami feels that pull early. We price from real local numbers, not a national flat rate.

Average time-to-fill across our placements over the past 12 months is 17 days. Staff accountants trend shorter. Senior, controller, and specialized cross-border or fund searches trend longer.

Sourcing speed is rarely the bottleneck. Interview cadence is. Miami teams that run one 30-minute screen inside the first 48 hours close searches fastest, and the ones that schedule interviews three weeks out tend to watch their first choice sign somewhere else, because a good accountant in this metro isn’t on the bench for long.

Yes, and it’s the deepest lane we have here. We regularly place accountants fluent in functional-currency remeasurement, intercompany consolidation across foreign subsidiaries, transfer pricing, and the FCPA control environment that comes with a Latin American footprint.

Miami is the financial gateway between the United States and Latin America, and the accounting under that is a genuine specialty. A senior accountant who can remeasure a foreign subsidiary, run intercompany eliminations across a dozen countries, and keep the transfer-pricing documentation clean is not the same hire as a domestic GL accountant, and a generalist board rarely tells them apart. We keep a warm bench across the regional headquarters in Coral Gables, the trade companies around Doral, and the multinationals that route their Americas finance through this metro. Bilingual, where the role needs it.

Local recruiters read this market the way a national desk working off regional averages can’t. We know metro comp bands, the active candidate pool, and which employers are quietly heading into a freeze.

The mix here is unusual, and a generalist misses it. Take a fund accountant at a Brickell hedge shop. Now set a cross-border consolidation accountant at a Coral Gables multinational next to a revenue accountant at a cruise line by the airport. Three different hires, and not one of them reads like a Fort Lauderdale back-office role, so a national desk working off one blended average tends to misprice the lot. The blend is the point. Florida runs its own tax rules, and you can check current ones with the Florida Department of Revenue, so a relocating candidate reads a Miami base carefully. The local CPA pipeline runs through bodies like the Florida Institute of CPAs.

Hire contract when the work has a finite window, like audit prep, an ERP conversion, leave coverage, or acquisition diligence. Hire direct when the seat is permanent and you need someone to carry institutional knowledge.

Contract-to-hire splits the difference when you want a working trial, or when the work is already on the desk but headcount approval is still moving through the budget. Most Miami transitions land on a blended approach, and we’ll map it with you on the intake call.

We do it regularly. Beyond corporate and cross-border accounting, we place cruise-revenue, fund, and real-estate accountants who live in ASC 606 passenger revenue, partnership allocations, carried interest, and percentage-of-completion.

Roughly a third of our annual finance placements are specialty roles, and Miami is a place where that matters. Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and Norwegian all run their books in the metro, and cruise accounting carries onboard revenue, dry-dock capitalization, and a floating asset base that behaves like nothing else. Brickell’s fund and private-equity shops need partnership and management-company accountants. The developers need percentage-of-completion and reserve work on towers that sell out before they’re poured. Where a local bench is thin, we tell you what the realistic pool looks like before you commit to a search plan. The AICPA has documented how tight CPA supply has become nationally, and a high-growth market like Miami feels it first.