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Senior Recruitment Consultant – Private Equity CFO & Finance Leadership
Finatal is seeking an ambitious and commercially driven Senior Recruitment Consultant to specialise in C-suite and C-suite-1 finance appointments across private equity-backed businesses.
You'll take ownership of your own market, partnering with investors and portfolio companies to deliver high-impact executive hires while building long-term client and candidate relationships.
This is a great opportunity if you want a better platform to earn more commission, more genuine exposure to the Private Equity market and learning from 1 million+ billers OR if you want to pivot your recruiting experience into Senior Finance/ Private Equity.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and deliver against your revenue target.
- Win and develop new client relationships across the private equity ecosystem.
- Recruit senior finance leaders, including CFOs, Finance Directors and their direct reports.
- Source, headhunt, interview and manage candidates through to placement.
- Provide market intelligence and strategic hiring advice to clients and candidates.
- Secure retained and exclusive search mandates.
- Build and execute a business plan to grow your desk and market presence.
- Support and mentor junior consultants while maintaining individual performance.
- Use CRM and market analytics to drive activity, opportunities and results.
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About You
- Proven recruitment experience, ideally within executive search, finance or professional services but we are open if you've recruited in other sectors and want to pivot sectors.
- Highly commercial with a strong business development mindset.
- Assertive, driven and results-oriented.
- A natural networker with excellent influencing and negotiation skills.
- Self-motivated, inquisitive and energised by a fast-paced environment.
- Committed to delivering exceptional standards and long-term relationships.
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Why join Finatal?
- Finatal are winners of the Sunday Times Best Place to work for the 3rd year in a row!
- We are the leading Private Equity specialist recruitment business, with over 16 years in the Private Equity market.
- Our culture is high-performing, you'll be surrounded and learn from the best. Our culture celebrates both big and small successes, through incentive trips, internal recognition and awards.
- You will be joining our top performing team in London, huge opportunity for personal career growth and earning potential.
- Competitive base salary with excellent commission structure.
- Structured training, onboarding, and clear career progression pathways - we provide very strong training, led by our top performers.
If this sounds like an opportunity that you would like to hear more about, click apply now or email susannah.willcox@finatal.com for more information.
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