Finance & Legal
Qualified finance, risk and legal professionals for regulated and high-growth businesses.
Our view of this market
Our finance and legal desk covers qualified accountants, risk and compliance specialists, and in-house legal counsel. The common thread is regulation: most of our clients operate somewhere that a mistake carries a fine, and they hire accordingly.
We do not recruit transactional finance. Our work starts at qualified level and runs through to Finance Director and General Counsel, with a significant amount of financial crime, regulatory reporting and commercial contracts work in between. Financial services clients make up around half the desk, with the balance in manufacturing, technology and energy businesses that need genuine sector understanding rather than a generic accountant.
Counter-offers are more common in this sector than any other we handle, and we manage for it deliberately: motivation is tested early, and we would rather lose a placement at week two than at offer stage.
What we recruit
Finance
Financial Controller
Finance Business Partner
Group Reporting Manager
Head of FP&A
Finance Director
Risk and compliance
Financial Crime Analyst
Compliance Manager
Regulatory Reporting Specialist
Operational Risk Manager
MLRO
Legal
In-house Counsel
Commercial Contracts Manager
Data Protection Officer
Company Secretary
General Counsel
Open roles in this sector
/Sector lead
Principal Consultant, Finance & Legal
Where we place in this sector
A search we ran in this sector
They told candidates about the regulatory finding before we did, and it turned out to be the right call. We wanted people who ran towards it.
Ryan Osadebe, MLRO, Brightmoor Financial
6
financial crime hires in 4 months
100%
retention at 18 months
2
internal promotions identified
Reading from this desk
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