Senior Recruitment Consultant 2026

Finatal are growing, with record 32% year on year business growth and up 70% in September 2026 compared to 2025. We want to speak to exceptional recruiters, business development, sales or account management professionals who are feeling capped in their current role, or in a lackluster environment and missing the fast-pace of sales.

We work exclusively with private capital, partnering with funds on internal hiring and with their portfolio companies to build high-performing teams. Across executive search and interim hiring, we deliver finance, technology, data, AI, transformation and M&A talent, alongside specialist fund hires, supporting both funds and portfolio businesses at pace.

What will you be doing in this role?

This is a 360 recruitment opportunity, you will manage the full recruitment cycle from job origination and business development, to talent mapping and attraction and offer negotiation. There are not many recruitment roles which give you true autonomy to business develop into mid-large cap PE funds, build a practice area and take genuine control of your career path.

Candidate management:

• Identify, attract and shortlist candidates for mandates in accordance with the requirements of the client –through a mix of the CRM, LinkedIn, networking, advertising and referrals
• Headhunt candidates and build relationships with passive candidates
• Manage the relationship with candidates throughout the entire recruitment cycle from original contact to postplacement.
• Conduct initial candidate screening calls, as well as follow up meetings (face to face and virtual) to asses and critique candidates against mandate requirements.
• Brief candidates on job opportunities and gain their commitment
• Provide consultative services and market intelligence to candidates
• Send speculative CVs to relevant clients

Client management & business development:

• Attend client meetings with the Head of Practice to lead on retained, exclusive, and contingent searches
• Manage full 360 sales cycle and identify new business opportunities and generate leads through targeted outreach, referrals, networking, and market mapping.
• Conduct detailed research into clients, their backers and competitors, and creating client packs to be utilised for client pitches, as well as during the search process

Why join Finatal?

We pride ourselves in our high performing culture, always raising the bar of what 'success' or 'excellent' looks like - celebrating smaller wins for first recruiter deals, or individual record months and the bigger wins of record top biller performances.

If you are sat in your sales, business development or account manager role and thinking is the grass greener and you want to double or triple your commission cheque - then get in touch to find out that it indeed is!

Interview Process:

• First chat with Head of Talent
• Online assessment
• Invitation to an in-person interview in London
• Offer presented

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