Financial Services Recruitment That Understands Capital Markets
Building Specialist Teams Across Financial Services
Harrington Starr supports hiring across technology, data, infrastructure, transformation, and business-critical functions within the firms operating across global financial services, from hedge funds and investment banks to wealth management platforms, private equity firms, and risk & compliance consultancies.
How We Deliver Talent
Financial Services Organisations We Partner With
We recruit for firms where data, technology, and infrastructure drive competitive advantage. Our expertise spans capital markets, banking, investment management, hedge funds, private equity, and risk & compliance environments. These high-performance businesses rely on specialist talent to deliver under pressure and adapt to changing market demands.
We partner with asset and wealth management firms to build teams across investment technology, data platforms, risk and operational infrastructure that underpin performance and reporting across large-scale investment portfolios across multiple asset classes.
Across corporate, investment, and retail banking, firms are balancing regulatory requirements, operational resilience, and ongoing digital transformation. We support hiring across technology, infrastructure, risk, compliance, and transformation teams, whether enabling deal execution and trading activity in investment banks, strengthening regulatory controls and large-scale customer operations in retail banks, or supporting resilient, compliant platforms within corporate banking environments.
Advisory firms supporting financial institutions require specialists across regulatory change, governance, risk frameworks, and remediation programmes. We help risk and compliance consultancies scale delivery teams in line with client demand.
Hedge funds operate performance-driven, active trading strategies and require specialist technology, quantitative, and risk professionals. We recruit talent that supports trading systems, analytics, and robust operational infrastructure.
Private equity firms invest in and scale portfolio businesses, requiring strong internal capability across technology, data, governance, and operations. We support hiring for roles that drive value creation and performance oversight.
Specialist Hiring Across Financial Services
Why Choose Harrington Starr As Your Financial Services Recruitment Partner
Experience Across Complex Financial Services Environments
Since 2010, Harrington Starr has supported hiring across financial services environments where technology, infrastructure, data, and transformation directly influence business performance. Our client base spans banks, hedge funds, asset managers, financial technology firms, vendors, data providers, and specialist consultancies operating across global markets.
Different Risk Appetites, Different Profiles
Banks want stability and compliance fluency. Hedge funds want innovation and speed. Asset managers want scalability and rigour. We match candidates to environments where their strengths align with cultural expectations, not just technical requirements.
Higher Expectations, Higher Rewards
Across capital markets, banking, and investment environments, hiring decisions directly affect performance, operational stability, and growth. We focus on securing people who can operate effectively within those realities.
Our Approach: Insight Before Activity
We provide market insight before search activity begins. That means qualifying briefs, challenging unrealistic expectations, and helping clients understand how hiring conditions may affect timelines, compensation, talent availability, and overall search strategy.
Whether supporting a specialist hire, retained search, executive search mandate, or broader transformation programme, our approach is built around clarity, communication, and long-term hiring success.
Start With the Market, Not the Role
Before search activity begins, we assess talent availability, compensation expectations, competitor hiring activity, and the market conditions affecting delivery timelines.
That means hiring decisions are based on market reality, not assumptions.
Set the Right Brief From the Start
One of our differentiators is our willingness to challenge briefs that are unlikely to succeed in the current market.
If expectations around compensation, timelines, or experience levels are unrealistic, we address that early, helping clients avoid stalled hiring processes and wasted interview cycles.
Communication You Can Rely On
Clear communication sits at the centre of every search we deliver. Clients understand why candidates are being introduced, where processes stand, and what the market is saying in real time.
Candidates receive honest feedback, structured updates, and transparency throughout the process.
Move With Purpose
Critical hires should not be driven by urgency alone. Rushed processes often create larger operational and commercial risks later.
We structure searches around long-term success rather than short-term CV volume, focusing on people who can deliver lasting impact within complex financial services environments.
Meet Our Financial Services Recruitment Experts
Name: Carl Charlson
Job Title: Customer Success Director
Team: Financial Services
Carl brings over 20 years of global recruitment experience across IT and financial services to Harrington Starr. As our Customer Success Director, Carl partners closely with clients across the financial services and FinTech sectors to shape and optimise hiring strategies, ensuring their recruitment processes are aligned with business goals and built for long-term success. Having supported clients in over 30 countries across six continents, Carl understands the ongoing pressures of time and budget in hiring. He works closely with our teams in London, Belfast, and New York to identify new opportunities, deliver market insight, and drive client success across the Harrington Starr Group. If you're struggling with time-to-hire, hiring budgets, or resource gaps, Carl and the team at Harrington Starr are here to help.
Name: Barry Ansell
Job Title: Head of Contract Recruitment
Team: Financial Services
With nearly two decades of experience, Barry leads our Contract Recruitment division with an unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional results. He specialises in connecting businesses with top-tier contract professionals across Change & Transformation, Trading Solutions, and IT transformation projects. Barry combines industry know-how with a straightforward approach, ensuring clients and candidates get the right fit, fast. Whether it’s supporting complex digital transformations or specialised IT roles, Barry is all about making the recruitment process smooth and effective. Honest and hardworking, Barry builds strong relationships by delivering what he promises—quality solutions that work for everyone involved.
Carl Charlson
Customer Success Director
Barry Ansell
Head of Contract Recruitment
What Happens Next
Whether you're hiring within banking, capital markets, investment management, hedge funds, or financial technology, we help businesses secure specialist talent across technology, transformation, infrastructure, risk, and commercial functions.
Our teams operate across London, New York, Belfast, and global financial centres, supporting clients through retained search, contingent hiring, and long-term talent partnerships.