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Phoenix Search

Phoenix Search is a professional search and recruitment partner that helps organizations build high performing teams across finance, legal, tax, technology, and corporate advisory disciplines. With a multi office presence in Dublin, London, Limerick, and New York, the firm supports clients from growth companies to global enterprises through a disciplined, data led approach that blends market mapping, rigorous assessment, and a focus on long term fit. The team has completed 900 searches and continually invests in original research to keep clients ahead of talent trends, publishing studies such as the Global CFO Survey, the Employment Market Survey 2024, and The Future of Finance, together with focused insights on investment banking and private equity labor dynamics across the UK, US, and Middle East. Phoenix consultants partner with boards, CEOs, and functional leaders to appoint critical hires spanning CFOs and senior finance leadership, legal and compliance counsel, tax specialists, and technology change agents who drive digital transformation. Candidates benefit from transparent guidance, market intelligence, and access to opportunities aligned with their goals, while clients gain a trusted advisor capable of executing confidential executive mandates and building out permanent teams at pace. The companys industry coverage includes financial services such as banking, insurance, investment management, and fintech, professional services across legal, accounting, and consulting, and technology domains including software, data, and cloud. Phoenix combines local market depth with cross border reach, coordinating searches across EMEA and North America and leveraging curated communities of senior operators and advisors. Its process emphasizes clarity at intake, structured competency interviewing, and evidence backed referencing, ensuring each appointment is benchmarked against current market standards and future business needs. Operating with a global mindset and a commitment to exceptional results, Phoenix Search delivers a seamless recruitment experience that reduces time to hire and elevates the caliber of every shortlist.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData Science

HQLondon, Ireland

Challenger Recruitment Specialists

Challenger Recruitment Specialists is a boutique firm focused on financial services, accounting and finance, and risk and compliance. Founded by Nabil McNaughton in 2021, the business brings over 15 years of recruitment success to clients in Ireland and other key financial centers. Challenger delivers contingent, retained, and temporary assignments, partnering with organizations from startups to global institutions to build high caliber teams from mid to executive level. Its specialist coverage includes funds, asset and wealth management, banking and capital markets, accounting and finance, aircraft leasing, compliance, risk and legal, and advisory and consulting. Underpinned by deep international networks, rigorous search methodology, and the use of modern tools and technologies, the team focuses on technical alignment, competency depth, and cultural fit. Challenger is known for a quality first model that aims for a 75 percent interview rate on submitted CVs and backs outcomes with an industry leading 135 percent guarantee. If a placement does not reach the six month mark, Challenger will provide a free replacement and a 35 percent discount on the next recruitment process. As an additional accountability measure, the firm credits 500 EUR if a submitted profile is outside the requirements agreed at the outset. Clients value its global coverage, access to domestic and international talent, and market intelligence on supply and demand, compensation, and skills availability. Candidates engage with Challenger for transparent guidance, a clear process, and opportunities across operations, investments, finance, legal support, and company secretarial pathways in financial services. The Challenger Way reflects the company values of excellence, authenticity, passion, enjoyment, dedication, and accountability, and the firm is committed to long term partnerships that improve hiring outcomes and career trajectories across the financial services ecosystem.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtTemporary StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementHuman ResourcesTechnical WritingProject Management

HQBray, Ireland

Qenexus

Qenexus is a recruitment and talent advisory firm focused on front office trading and technology, partnering with financial institutions, hedge funds, and technology firms to identify and secure high impact talent. Founded in 2024 by Tom O'Cuinneagain and headquartered in Dublin, the firm is built on trust, discretion, and delivery. Drawing on more than eight years of recruiting experience across London, New York, Asia, and the Middle East, Qenexus combines deep market knowledge with a carefully curated network to fill roles ranging from quantitative analysts and traders to software engineers and developers. The team executes confidential headhunting and targeted searches, engages candidates with precision, and manages end to end hiring processes that respect the confidentiality requirements of both clients and candidates. Beyond core search and placement, Qenexus provides advisory support that helps clients design effective selection processes and enables candidates to present their strengths with clarity, including services such as recruitment consultations, job search strategy, and interview preparation. Its online learning modules further reinforce this consultative approach by offering accessible content on recruitment strategies, business consulting, analysis, and finance fundamentals. Qenexus emphasizes a tailored, relationship driven model: understanding the nuanced demands of front office trading environments, aligning technology capabilities with performance objectives, and delivering shortlists that balance technical depth with cultural fit. Whether building a new desk, scaling a systematic trading capability, or hiring specialist software talent for mission critical systems, the firm provides responsive communication, transparent progress updates, and rigorous evaluation. With a commitment to privacy and a focus on long term outcomes, Qenexus aims to be the trusted partner for clients seeking to elevate team performance and for candidates pursuing meaningful advancement in the fast paced, ever evolving intersection of trading and technology.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementIT InfrastructureTelecommunicationsCloud Computing

HQDublin, Ireland

Rachel Kelly IT Recruitment Limited

Rachel Kelly IT Recruitment Limited is a specialist Irish recruitment consultancy focused on technology talent, led by experienced recruiter Rachel Kelly. With 24 years of industry experience, the firm has placed over 1200 IT professionals into permanent roles across startups, small businesses, SMEs, and multinationals throughout Ireland. Known for building high performing technology teams at scale and speed, Rachel has helped create some of Irelands strongest software engineering groups from the ground up, often within complex and highly specialized technical environments. The service model is bespoke and relationship driven, giving equal focus to clients and candidates. Acting as a true consultant, Rachel goes beyond the job description to collaborate with hiring teams and ensure that specifications fully align with the real needs of the role, then delivers shortlists that precisely match. When market realities require adjustment, communication is transparent and solutions oriented. She is selective about mandates and only commits where she is confident of delivering, underpinned by values of reliability, consistency, respect, honesty, loyalty, and passion. Core expertise spans Software Engineering at all levels, Technical Architects, Technical Leads, Engineering Managers, and CTOs, along with Product Owners and Product Managers (enterprise and SaaS, including design thinking), Quality Assurance, Application Support, and business facing roles across Project Management, Change Management, Digitalization, Business Analysis, and Data Analysis. Industry coverage includes E-commerce, Internet Software and Services, Internet of Things, Automotive, SaaS, Healthcare and Biochemistry, Fintech, Financial Services and Insurance, and Entertainment Technology. Whether supporting a startup scaling its first product team, a multinational building a new engineering hub, or a confidential executive technology hire, Rachel Kelly IT Recruitment Limited provides a rigorous, ethical, and results focused process designed to secure the right person for the right role. The company operates in full compliance with Irish regulation, including Agency Licence EA4985 and company registration CRO 733277.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticals

Odgers Ireland

Odgers Ireland is a senior talent partner focused on identifying, assessing, and appointing leaders who drive performance and transformation across Irish organizations. The firm delivers executive search for board, C suite, and critical leadership roles, complements permanent hiring with interim management solutions for immediate impact and change mandates, and supports senior management recruitment for pivotal functional positions. Beyond search, Odgers Ireland provides leadership advisory services that include executive coaching, leadership assessment, succession management, and board engagement, helping clients evaluate capability, strengthen leadership pipelines, and govern more effectively. The team also offers diversity, equity and inclusion consulting to improve access to diverse talent and embed inclusive leadership practices, and conducts industry mapping to give clients real time insight into talent landscapes, benchmark roles, and inform future workforce strategies. Odgers Ireland serves a broad range of sectors highlighted by strong coverage in business and professional services, where it works with accounting and tax practices, legal firms, management consulting businesses, business support service providers, and real estate management leaders; consumer and retail markets, spanning consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, and travel, leisure and hospitality operators; education, including commercial education and training providers, universities, and schools; and financial services, covering asset management, capital markets, corporate and institutional banking, and insurance. Its approach combines rigorous research, structured assessment, and stakeholder engagement with transparent process management and thoughtful candidate care. Whether advising family owned enterprises navigating succession, scaling a high growth consumer brand, strengthening a university leadership team, or appointing regulated financial services executives, Odgers Ireland tailors each mandate to organizational context and culture. By uniting market intelligence with leadership science and practical execution, the firm helps clients make confident, defensible hiring and succession decisions that deliver measurable outcomes and long term value.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)E-commerceLuxury GoodsBanking

HQWashington, Ireland

Red Island Recruitment

Red Island Recruitment is a Dublin based, wholly owned Irish recruitment firm that delivers tailored hiring solutions with a particular strength in financial services. Founded in 2022 by director Joe Keane, the company partners with clients and candidates across all seniority levels, from associate to executive, and applies a consultative, quality driven approach to every mandate. The team focuses on long term solutions and invests time to understand organizational goals, culture, and role requirements before applying multi channel search strategies to pinpoint shortlists of high caliber professionals. Red Island Recruitment supports global wealth and asset managers, third party UCITS Management Companies and AIFMs, corporate and investment banks, professional services firms, and in house functions across finance industry ecosystems. Specialist coverage includes Asset Management; UCITS Management Company and AIFM governance solutions; Risk and Compliance; Corporate and Investment Banking; Legal; Tax; Aviation Finance Tax; Technology; Marketing; and Human Resources. Typical mandates span portfolio managers, heads of equity trading, business development executives, risk and compliance officers, designated persons and controlling officers, securities operations managers, senior middle office specialists, in house fund counsel and general counsel roles, corporate and transaction tax consultants, international tax and transfer pricing advisors, aviation tax specialists, heads of technology control, lead software engineers, desktop engineers, senior technical support analysts, heads of global communications, channel and product marketing leaders, and HR leaders including heads of talent, compensation managers, HR business partners, and payroll managers. Combining global reach with a boutique service model, Red Island Recruitment conducts international searches and provides hands on support through onboarding and offer agreement stages while remaining flexible to adapt to evolving requirements. The firm has executed mandates across EMEA, APAC, and North America and maintains deep networks of white collar and executive talent spanning banking operations, governance, risk, legal, tax, and technology aligned to financial services. Clients and candidates value the transparent, solutions led ethos and the responsive, personal service that underpins every engagement.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQDublin, Ireland

Cadent Sourcing

Cadent Sourcing is an Ireland based recruitment partner delivering a modern Recruitment as a Service model that replaces traditional per placement fees with a simple, fixed price engagement. Based at The Edge Service Offices in Tallaght, the firm embeds for an agreed period and systematically sources across all open vacancies, prioritizing urgent roles first, then working through the remaining requisitions. Clients receive curated shortlists for each position and can hire as many shortlisted candidates as they wish at no added cost, making the approach highly predictable and cost effective for growing businesses. Cadent Sourcing focuses on the finance, technology, and construction markets and has built an efficient system for identifying and engaging relevant, motivated candidates, resulting in stronger pipelines and faster time to hire. The team is led by General Manager Gavin McGrath, who brings close to 20 years of recruitment experience across Ireland, Europe, the USA, Australia, and India, with a track record of solving sourcing challenges and improving hiring processes. Finance Service Delivery Manager Imelda Watson specializes in banking and finance recruitment at all levels, while Construction Service Delivery Manager Conor Vaughan brings over a decade of experience in the UK and Ireland across both blue and white collar roles, supported by a degree in construction management. Service Delivery Manager Emily Verastegui contributes broad international experience across the Caribbean, USA, Europe, the UK, and Australia, and Service Delivery Manager Mark Skeffington adds deep expertise in life sciences recruitment. Client testimonials from brands such as Strong Roots, Aquachem, and CET Connect cite thorough shortlisting, cultural alignment, proactive communication, transparency, and speed, with roles filled within weeks and consistent quality across multiple mandates. Cadent Sourcing positions itself as a client centric, repeat business partner that blends RPO style subscription support, direct sourcing expertise, and permanent hiring outcomes without large invoices for each placement.

Permanent RecruitmentRPOPayrolling/EORBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementTelecomResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real Estate

HQDublin, Ireland

CareerCompass

CareerCompass is a Dublin based recruitment consultancy established in 2006 to help financial organisations succeed by matching them with their most powerful asset, people. The firm focuses on building high performing executive financial teams across private equity, corporate finance, retail, financial services, family offices, property, and investment banking. Leveraging a deep network of senior level contacts and market insight, CareerCompass delivers a tailored search and selection process that prioritises cultural fit, technical capability, and long term impact. For employers, the team invests the time to understand industry context and specific requirements, reviews prior hiring patterns, and presents a small number of well selected candidates who closely meet the brief. For candidates, the firm provides access to a strong network of opportunities and supports them throughout the interview process so they can put their best foot forward. Live mandates and recent roles span executive, accounting and finance, investment banking, legal and compliance, and aircraft leasing, including Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, Equity Analyst, Financial Accountant, Research Analyst, Corporate Finance Analyst, IT and IP Solicitor, Senior Legal Counsel, Transaction Lawyer, and Financial Analyst focused on aircraft leasing. This specialist coverage reflects CareerCompass expertise in both core finance and adjacent professional services where financial acumen is central. The firm encourages referrals and enables candidates to upload CVs directly, streamlining engagement for passive and active job seekers alike. Under the leadership of Founder and Managing Director Julianne Hatton, an experienced financial recruiter, CareerCompass combines rigorous search methods with a personable, consultative approach. Whether building out finance, investment, or legal functions, the firm partners closely with clients to secure permanent and executive hires, and it supports selective contract needs where appropriate. Consistent client testimonials underscore a reputation for professionalism, market knowledge, and results that align individual ambitions with business objectives.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementProject ManagementResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real Estate

HQDublin, Ireland

Rocketsuite Search

Rocketsuite Search is a boutique professional search firm dedicated to Finance and Accounting talent across Ireland and North America. Founded in 2022 by Nicholas Killeen, ACCA, the firm blends more than a decade of global finance recruitment experience with the practical perspective of a qualified accountant to deliver a bespoke, reduced risk search model for critical hires. From its Dublin HQ at WeWork, One Central Plaza, and an international base at WeWork, 1 Lincoln Street, Boston, Rocketsuite partners with organizations from venture backed scale ups to Fortune 500 enterprises to build high performing finance teams. The firm focuses on core finance disciplines including Accounting, FP&A, Corporate Finance, Internal Audit, and Tax, and conducts executive search for senior finance leadership such as Financial Controller, Head of Finance, and CFO. Clients value a selective, relationship led approach in which consultants commit to a small number of high quality mandates at any one time and collaborate until the desired result is achieved. Over 12 years, the founder has cultivated a deep network across Ireland, the UK, Canada, and the US, enabling rapid access to qualified, vetted talent spanning accounting and finance, M&A advisory, private equity, investment banking, and supply chain. Rocketsuite operates on principles of accountability, transparency, and human touch, using technology to enhance rather than replace expert judgment, and maintains clear, open communication with structured shortlists, market insight, and thorough interview preparation. The firm prioritizes people over profit and champions diversity, equity, and inclusion so that clients and candidates alike can thrive. Insight publications on topics such as CFO sentiment, market dynamics, and sector trends further inform search execution. Whether standing up a new finance function or upgrading leadership in a mature organization, Rocketsuite delivers tailored permanent and executive search solutions with discretion, pace, and rigor, simplifying finance recruitment and helping clients secure key hires with confidence while supporting candidates in achieving long term career goals.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementTelecomManagement ConsultingLegal

HQDublin, Ireland

Allied Talent

Allied Talent is a specialist finance recruitment partner based in Dublin, trusted by ambitious businesses to build high performing finance and leadership teams through critical stages of growth. The firm focuses on mid to senior appointments across core finance, M&A, and critical back office functions, working with early stage and scaling companies as well as established and investor backed organizations. Its model is partnership led and insight driven, combining deep market knowledge with modern recruitment technology to identify, assess, and secure talent that aligns with long term value creation rather than short term hiring targets. Allied Talent delivers permanent recruitment, interim and executive search, and project based hiring solutions, managing the full process from market mapping, targeted sourcing, and screening through to shortlisting, interview orchestration, offer management, and onboarding support. Employers benefit from transparent advice, salary benchmarking, employer brand positioning, and discreet delivery, while candidates receive face to face engagement, strategic CV positioning, advanced interview preparation, and ongoing post placement care. Typical mandates include CFO, Finance Director, Head of Finance, Financial Controller, FP&A and Commercial Finance, Finance Operations and Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, Investment Manager, and M&A roles. The team has experience across Banking and Financial Services, Investment and Asset Management, Real Estate, Energy and Infrastructure, Healthcare and Care Services, Construction and Facilities Management, Manufacturing, and Hospitality, reflecting broad cross sector credibility with a strong finance domain focus. With international perspective informed by work across Dublin, London, Amsterdam, and New York, Allied Talent supports domestic and cross border searches where needed, ensuring thorough shortlists and a smooth, well communicated hiring journey. The firm emphasizes quality over quantity, careful alignment of skills and culture, and lasting relationships that continue well beyond the acceptance of an offer.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtSOW/ProjectsBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementOil & GasRenewable EnergyMining

HQDublin, Ireland

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