Stafford King Wiese, a thriving Sacramento architecture firm that specializes in the design of education, healthcare, civic and community facilities, recently engaged Strogoff Consulting to recruit a Controller / Accounting Manager following the departure of a financial professional who held the position for five years.

Gregg Rock, Chief Operations Officer at SKW, had this to say:

Mary Anne McKernie’s deep knowledge of financial management, coupled with her ability to match people to our distinctive culture,
resulted in our hiring two top-notch accounting professionals five years apart.  Her process was thorough yet efficient and required
very little of my time, and she accomplished in weeks what might have taken us many months.

James Fowler, a CPA early in his career, brings broad accounting experience to SKW, having provided accounting and management consulting services to businesses as a consultant since 1992. James has vast experience advising executives and managers as well as performing management functions.   Similar to how SKW focuses on its clients’ aspirations and stakeholders’ needs to arrive at creative solutions to design challenges, James is skilled at counseling managers about business and financial issues, often arriving at innovative solutions to vexing problems.

Strogoff Consulting worked closely with SKW to analyze the firm’s accounting department and to recommend the recruiting of an individual at the appropriate skill level. Once recruited, Strogoff Consulting assisted SKW with the onboarding process.