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Fletcher Jones Executive Search

Fletcher Jones Executive Search is a UK-based boutique firm specializing in senior appointments and board advisory services for organizations across financial services, professional practice, and the not-for-profit sector. Founded in 1984 and operating from offices in London and Edinburgh, the firm delivers bespoke executive search assignments for Chairs, Non-Executive Directors, Chief Executives, and other director-level leaders. Its methodology blends targeted headhunting and rigorous original research with the reach of extensive UK and global networks and modern digital sourcing tools. Beyond search, Fletcher Jones provides independent board performance reviews, remuneration reviews, executive leadership team evaluations, and SHL psychometric testing, giving clients a data-informed perspective on governance, leadership capability, culture, and succession. The team works collaboratively on each mandate to ensure a high-touch, human approach focused on cultural fit, cognitive diversity, and a strong candidate experience, often advising clients through nuanced deliberations when multiple strong finalists are in play. Sector strengths include investment trusts, asset management, mutual and building societies, and banking within financial services, alongside professional practices such as legal and accounting firms, and not-for-profit and membership organizations. The firm underscores responsible business practices through a clear commitment to ESG principles, data protection, and cyber resilience, and is a signatory to Chapter Zeros Search Firms Declaration. Trusted by boards for independence, discretion, and thoroughness, Fletcher Jones is known for producing balanced longlists and shortlists that broaden diversity of thought and experience while remaining tightly aligned to role specifications and governance needs. Clients and candidates engage in person, by phone, email, or video, benefitting from a process designed to make key appointment decisions easier, faster, and well substantiated.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementProject ManagementFundraisingSocial Services

HQUnited Kingdom

Active Recruiting Consultants Ltd (ARC)

Active Recruiting Consultants Ltd (ARC) is a niche recruitment consultancy focused on the UK financial services and general insurance markets, providing ethical, effective, high quality recruitment solutions since 2001. The firm supports a broad range of product areas including life, pensions, protection, employee benefits, mortgages, and investments, and hires across front, middle, and back office functions. Typical roles include sales support, IFA administration, paraplanning, compliance, pensions administration and technical pensions posts, as well as marketing, IT, medical underwriting, claims, and customer services. ARC partners with wealth managers, life assurers, pension administrators, fund managers, brokers, fintech firms, and specialist financial technology consultancies, placing talent from graduate and early career levels through to experienced and senior specialists. Their approach is hands on and service led, with detailed interview preparation, transparent communication, and diligent shortlisting that avoids flooding clients with unsuitable CVs. Testimonials spanning many years highlight ARC’s market knowledge, candidate care, and persistence in finding the right cultural and technical fit. The firm has supported candidates into roles such as Senior Pensions Administrator, Pensions Analyst, Paraplanner, Sales Manager, Marketing Executive, Medical Underwriter, Customer Service and complaints specialists, and .NET developers within niche financial technology environments. With hybrid and flexible working now common across many client engagements, ARC remains closely aligned to evolving employer needs while advocating for candidates throughout the process, providing feedback and guidance at every stage. Their model is relationship driven, evidenced by repeat client business since 2006 and referrals rewarded through a structured program, and they continue to operate with the same integrity and focus that have defined the business since its inception. ARC’s commitment is to deliver first class recruitment outcomes that add long term value to both clients and candidates across the financial services ecosystem.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementIT InfrastructureTelecommunicationsCloud Computing

HQEpsom, United Kingdom

Barker Munro Recruitment

Barker Munro Recruitment is an independent UK recruitment company established in 2010 that specialises exclusively in the general insurance market. Built by career professionals with deep sector expertise, the firm has developed a trusted reputation for delivering honest, practical advice to clients and candidates while maintaining a focus on long term relationships and budget conscious solutions. Operating across both Commercial and Personal Lines, Barker Munro recruits nationwide for insurers, managing general agents, brokers, loss adjusters, and dedicated claims management companies. Its core delivery spans four divisions: Claims, Broking, Underwriting, and Insurance Office Support, covering roles from trainee through to director. Typical mandates include commercial underwriters, SME account handlers, insurance brokers and account executives, claims handlers and leaders, underwriting assistants, and the professional office support that underpins successful insurance operations, including administration, customer service, and finance and accounting. For employers, the team provides consultative vacancy scoping, market and salary insight, targeted search, rigorous shortlisting, and smooth offer management. For candidates, Barker Munro offers straightforward guidance, CV and interview preparation, and transparent feedback designed to support sustainable career progression. From its base in Maidstone, Kent, the team works across the UK, combining local knowledge with national reach. Directors Dan Munday and Heather Parkhouse lead a close knit group of specialists who are known for responsiveness, discretion, and consistent delivery. The website provides a live jobs board, the ability to submit CVs and vacancies, set job alerts, and access a knowledge hub. Whether building a claims function, strengthening broking capability, enhancing underwriting teams, or hiring high quality office support, Barker Munro aims to be the agency of choice for general insurance talent. Their guiding belief is simple and consistent with client outcomes: their industry knowledge is your solution.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementFinance & AccountingSales & Business DevelopmentSenior Executives

HQMaidstone, United Kingdom

Calidus Group

Calidus Group is an Australian recruitment partner focused on delivering high caliber talent across Accounting and Finance, Sales and Marketing, Human Resources, and executive leadership roles. Founded in 2018, the firm combines deep functional expertise with a personal, relationship-led process that prioritizes culture, values, and long-term fit. From an initial discovery session to define objectives, through rigorous screening and intelligent matching, Calidus goes beyond resumes to understand motivations, competencies, and attitude and aptitude, enabling precise introductions that endure. The team supports a wide spectrum of professionals, from recent graduates to experienced managers and C-suite leaders, and collaborates with clients ranging from high-growth startups and mid-market companies to national professional services firms and technology businesses. With coverage across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth, Calidus has built a strong national network and a reputation for transparent communication, thorough reference checking, and hands-on partnership that acts as an extension of each client brand. The firm specializes in permanent recruitment and executive search for roles such as Partner, C-suite, Director, and key supporting positions within corporate functions. Clients value the consultative approach, market insight, and ability to align technical capability with culture add, while candidates consistently cite supportive guidance and clear communication throughout the process. With more than one thousand successful placements across industries, Calidus Group is committed to building healthy, progressive, and happy workplaces by connecting people and opportunities that are genuinely well matched. Whether a company is scaling a finance function, building a performance-driven sales and marketing engine, strengthening its HR capability, or appointing senior leaders, Calidus provides an efficient, precise, and human-centered recruitment experience designed to create lasting impact for both clients and candidates.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)TelecommunicationsCloud ComputingTelecom

HQSydney, Australia

Grafton Banks Finance Recruitment

Founded in 2008 by Nigel Jeyes and Alex Gregory, Grafton Banks Finance is a specialist recruitment firm focused exclusively on accountancy and finance talent across Sussex, Surrey and Kent, with reach into Hampshire, London and surrounding areas. The firm delivers permanent, contract and executive search solutions for qualified, part qualified and non qualified finance professionals, from developing talent through to Finance Director, CFO and Partner appointments. Its consultants have deep market knowledge from recruiting across Commerce and Industry, Accountancy Practices, the Public Sector, Financial Services and Legal Firms, enabling targeted shortlists and informed advice on career moves, market salaries and hiring strategy. Grafton Banks Finance covers core and niche disciplines including financial and management accounting, audit, tax, treasury, financial planning and analysis, project accounting, systems accounting and finance transformation, and supports clients with interim and IR35 compliant solutions. The team operates a high touch, relationship led model: they meet clients and candidates wherever possible, offer out of hours availability seven days a week, and maintain strict confidentiality, gaining consent before any submission. Candidates benefit from honest feedback, CV guidance, aptitude and competency based interview resources, and proactive introductions that reflect long term goals as well as immediate fit. Clients can expect a thorough briefing process, culture and team fit assessment, and consistent communication that balances transparency with pragmatism, evidenced by case studies and testimonials highlighting delivery on time sensitive and hard to fill mandates, including senior finance leadership roles. With a reputation built on communication, commitment, understanding and trust, Grafton Banks Finance partners with businesses and practices of all sizes, from high growth scale ups to established groups, to secure finance talent that drives performance, governance and long term value across the organizations they support.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)FinTechGovernment AdministrationLaw Enforcement

HQHove, United Kingdom

Appella Recruitment

Appella Recruitment is an IT recruitment specialist focused on the banking and wider financial services sector, serving major European financial centers including London, Frankfurt, and the Benelux region. The company delivers tailored hiring solutions that help banks and financial institutions secure high caliber talent across contract, interim, and permanent needs. Its solutions portfolio spans interim programme and project management to provide high quality, flexible management resources, managed team solutions covering operations and legacy environments such as Unix, NT, Lotus Notes, and platforms from IBM, ICL, and Unisys, and product implementation expertise across Oracle Applications for Finance, HR and Payroll, business intelligence, CRM, and workflow. Appella Recruitment has a strong track record sourcing specialist technical and banking contractors in niche areas such as Murex and Intellimatch, as well as security consultants and architects, ensuring cultural fit and value for money. Permanent resource solutions range from executive and middle management through to hands on technical staff, reflecting deep understanding of technology demands within regulated financial institutions. The firm takes a consultative approach with candidates, securing permission before submitting CVs, offering interview coaching, assisting with country specific compliance for international roles, and providing candid feedback throughout the recruitment life cycle. After placement, Appella stays engaged to ensure outcomes meet client and candidate expectations. Testimonials from senior industry leaders, including at the European Central Bank and major European banks, reference Appella Recruitment as a responsive, trustworthy partner that goes the extra mile, pre screens candidates rigorously, and reliably follows up through onboarding and beyond. Based in Richmond upon Thames with accessible interview rooms at Parkshot House, the company combines market reach, domain depth in financial technology, and a relationship led approach to consistently deliver tailored, on budget, and timely resourcing outcomes.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementIT InfrastructureTelecommunicationsCloud Computing

HQRichmond, United Kingdom

Datatech Analytics

Datatech Analytics is a UK based specialist recruitment agency focused exclusively on data science, analytics, and data enabled technology roles. From its base in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the firm partners with organizations across the UK to hire sought after talent spanning data engineering, machine learning and AI, digital analytics, credit risk, marketing and customer insight, statistics, operational research, econometrics, data visualization, and data leadership. With a candidate database and professional network built over 25 years in the data industry, Datatech combines deep market knowledge with rigorous shortlisting to deliver relevant, well screened shortlists that save clients time and raise hiring quality. Its employer services cover contingency search for active candidates, referred search and confidential introductions, executive search for hard to reach senior leaders, and consultative third party advertising that blends brand storytelling with targeted campaigns across data events, industry journals, aggregators, social media, job boards, specialist groups, and forums. Alongside recruitment delivery, the firm places diversity and inclusion at the heart of its approach, having founded Women in Data in 2015 and supporting Girls in Data to inspire the next generation of data professionals; Datatech also advises clients on inclusive hiring and leadership practices. Typical appointments range from graduate and early career analysts through seasoned data engineers and data scientists to heads of data and C suite data leadership. Clients span sectors where analytics creates competitive advantage, including financial services, media, advertising, ecommerce, and technology led businesses. Whether building a new capability or scaling a mature function, Datatech provides market insight, transparent process management, and candidate care that turns successful placements into long term relationships for employers and professionals alike.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceContent CreationPublic RelationsAdvertising

HQBasingstoke, United Kingdom

FJN Solutions

FJN Solutions is a UK based recruitment partner dedicated to the insurance sector, known for combining specialist market knowledge with a friendly, partnership led approach. With over 30 years of collective experience recruiting for insurance, the team focuses on building long term relationships with clients and candidates, often working with organizations for many years as their needs evolve. While headquartered in the UK and delivering most assignments domestically, FJN Solutions has a proven international reach and has supported key hires across Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Middle East. Clients choose FJN for its honest, expert career advice, its enthusiasm for the markets it serves, and its commitment to guiding both sides through every stage of the hiring journey. The firm supports growth agendas and team expansion by delivering permanent hires, senior and executive appointments, and flexible contract solutions, ensuring that each engagement is grounded in transparent communication and a detailed understanding of role requirements. Candidate care is central to the process, reflected in responsive support, clear feedback, and proactive advocacy throughout interviews and offer negotiation. The team recruits across a broad range of insurance functions, as illustrated by successful placements in areas such as claims and marketing, and adapts swiftly to new mandates as clients diversify or scale into new regions. FJN Solutions shares insights and updates through its newsroom and remains actively engaged in its community, all while maintaining a pragmatic, results oriented focus on connecting the right people with the right opportunities. Whether an insurer or intermediary seeking to expand a team or a professional exploring the next step, FJN Solutions brings the specialist expertise, market reach, and personal service required to achieve successful outcomes.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior ExecutivesMarketing & Creative

HQHorsham, United Kingdom

Cara Personnel Employment

Founded in 1988, Cara Personnel Employment Ltd is a privately owned recruitment agency based in Harrow, London, known for a hands on, personal service that supports both employers and candidates across temporary and permanent hiring. The firm specializes in accounts, administration, banking, construction, and secretarial roles, placing office professionals at every stage from entry level to experienced managers, and has built long standing client relationships, many spanning more than 20 years. Cara takes time to meet candidates, understand long term career plans, and provide practical guidance, from CV advice to relocation support for newcomers to London, while also offering regular follow up after placement to ensure a smooth transition and ongoing success. Employers value the consultative approach, shortlists focused on true fit rather than volume, and competitive fees, with testimonials highlighting responsiveness, attention to detail, and progress checks with both hiring managers and placed staff. The agency sources and screens talent for finance teams, HR and office support, buyer and commercial functions within construction, and banking and financial operations, and it supports temp to perm pathways when the opportunity is right. Local knowledge of the Harrow and wider London market enables quick turnaround on urgent assignments, while a broad network built on referrals ensures access to reliable, vetted candidates. Cara advertises live vacancies and invites candidates to register and upload CVs for consideration, and the team remains accessible by phone and email for fast assistance. By combining sector know how with personal accountability, Cara Personnel delivers practical, bespoke recruitment solutions that help organizations hire with confidence and help people build sustainable careers.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementConstructionArchitectureInterior Design

HQHarrow, United Kingdom

Chilworth Partnership

Chilworth Partnership is a UK executive search and interim management consultancy that connects outstanding leaders with next level organisations. Headquartered at the University of Southampton Science Park, the firm delivers bespoke, relationship led services that combine rigorous search, deep market insight, and an extensive corporate network to secure high impact leadership appointments. Its core capabilities span permanent executive search across the C suite and senior leadership, interim management for urgent coverage and mission critical change, and access to proven business transformation leaders who can plan, mobilise, and deliver complex programs. Chilworth Partnership complements leadership hiring with tailored career transition support that helps senior professionals navigate change, strengthen personal brands, and land their next role with confidence. The firm has built particular strength around finance leadership, regularly advising on CFO, Finance Director, and senior FP&A, commercial, and transformation mandates, including within private equity backed environments, while also placing cross functional executives across a broad range of sectors. Clients and candidates benefit from transparent processes, precise shortlists, and careful stakeholder management to ensure cultural fit, impact speed, and retention. Through frequent roundtables and insight content, Chilworth shares current market intelligence on topics such as interim trends, PE expectations, sustainability in business, hybrid productivity, executive onboarding during the first 90 days, and succession planning. The company is committed to diversity and inclusion and active corporate social responsibility, supporting regional initiatives such as Naomi House and Jacksplace and the Clarendon Way Walk. As part of the wider Chilworth Partnership family, sister brand Venture Recruitment Partners specialises in building finance and accounting teams, providing a seamless pathway from mid management hiring through to executive appointments. Whether the brief is a confidential search, a rapid interim solution, or a transformation assignment, Chilworth Partnership focuses on premium performance, speed, and lasting results for employers and senior leaders across the South and the wider UK.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtSOW/ProjectsPermanent RecruitmentManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)InsuranceInvestment ManagementFinTech

HQSouthampton, United Kingdom

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