If there is one thing banking and financial services professionals know, it is the value of trust. Whether you are managing an individual’s retirement plan or a corporate merger, you simply will not get the return on investment. The same is true for your executive recruitment relationship.

Our consultants are specialists in financial recruitment, specifically catering to executive level positions. Whether you are an investment bank looking for a credit risk manager or a brokerage firm in search of a sales trading and research expert, ESSFO's experienced recruiters in China are ready to assess your staffing situation and use our extensive talent resources and candidate databases to select the right candidates for permanent employment.

Asset and wealth management firms rely on ESSFO to recruit leaders who can develop new strategies and products in response to the fluctuations of the equities market and the needs of a clientele battered by upheaval.

ESSFO help global banking and markets organizations find executives to confront the imperatives of operational efficiency and innovation and risk and regulation management. 

ESSFO find leaders for consumer and commercial financial services companies who can help them to reconnect with their customers in a global environment while harnessing new technology and operations platforms to expand online distribution. 

Our insurance clients look to ESSFO for executives who can help them meet the challenges of greater regulatory scrutiny and the accelerating retirement of the baby-boom generation. 

As well as working with private equity firms to find executives who are able to target, structure and harvest investments, analyze risk and assist in portfolio company management to create value and grow their businesses, ESSFO also work with private equity firms to find executive leadership teams and board members for their portfolio companies across the full range of industry sectors.

ESSFO dedicated financial services team specializes in recruiting finance professionals across the following areas:

Risk & Compliance:

· Heads of Compliance – Regional/Country/Product

· Front Office Compliance Advisory

· Control Room

· Monitoring & Surveillance

· AML – Fraud/Investigations/SARs

· Regulatory Affairs/Policy

· Market Risk / Credit Risk / Valuations / Operational Risk / Upstream Risk

· COO

Accounting & Finance:

· Finance Controller/Director

· Financial Planning and Analysis

· Management Accounting

· Internal Audit

· Regulatory Reporting

· Finance Business Managers/COO

Front Office:

· Investment Banking/PE

· Research – Credit & Equity

· Investment Managers

· Commodity Finance/Trade Finance

· Project Finance

· Leveraged Finance

· Structured Lending

· Trade Finance

· Corporate Banking/Coverage

· Product Sales

· Transaction Banking

· Retail and Priority Banking

Middle Office:

· Senior Management Roles (Head of Risk / Compliance)

· Compliance (General, Product, AML, Anti-fraud)

· Credit Administration / Credit Analysis (SME, MNC, FI, LLC) / Credit Approval

· Market Risk / Operational Risk

Back Office:

· Retail and Priority Banking

· Senior Management Roles (CFO, FC, Head of IA, Chief Tax Officer)

· Financial Analyst

· Regulatory Reporting / Head Office Reporting

· Internal Audit (Product audit, ops audit, IT audit)

· Operation (General Ops, Trade, Cash, Treasury)

· Product Control (Wholesale Banking, Global Markets, Consumer Banking)

· Tax

Banking Technology:

· Applications / Development / Testing / Infrastructure / Helpdesk/Support

· Network / Program/Project Management

· Business Analysis / Service Delivery

· IT Consulting

· Business Process Reengineering

· Executive Technology Management