Financial hiring in San Antonio expected to increase
San Antonio Business Journal
Local chief financial officers are anticipating adding staff during the first quarter of 2009, according to the most recent Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index.
The hiring of full-time accounting and finance professionals in the San Antonio area is expected to increase as 9 percent of local CFOs surveyed say they plan to add staff during the quarter while 5 percent anticipate reductions in personnel.
The net 4 percent increase is up one point from the area’s fourth-quarter 2008 forecast and three points above the national average.
The local results reflect a two-quarter rolling average based on interviews with 200 CFOs from a stratified random sample of companies in the San Antonio area with 20 or more employees. More than 1,400 CFOs were queried for the national data.
“Even though weakness in the economy is affecting hiring in many fields, accounting and finance expertise in key functional areas remains in demand,” says Max Messmer, chairman and CEO of Robert Half International. “While no job category is completely immune to economic changes, professionals skilled at identifying cost efficiencies and enhancing profitability are a perennial need for firms of all sizes.”
Robert Half has been tracking financial hiring activity in the United States since 1992.
Robert Half International was founded in 1948 and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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