Financial Services: hires where discretion matters as much as the profile.
Private banking, wealth management, asset management, family offices. In Geneva and Zurich, the right people are known, courted, and rarely looking.
The situation
On the Swiss financial marketplace, an appointment travels fast. A published vacancy exposes the firm’s strategy, unsettles teams and alerts competitors. The profiles that matter (senior bankers with a book, heads of control functions, banking technology specialists) do not answer advertisements: they let themselves be approached by someone they know, or who knows exactly who they are. Hiring in this sector starts with mapping without noise.
Roles we recruit
- Leadership and front: market heads, senior relationship managers, heads of desk, independent wealth managers
- Investment: portfolio managers, analysts, CIOs and multi-family office teams
- Control and compliance: compliance, risk, internal audit, AML officers
- Banking technology: core banking application owners, data, cybersecurity, regulatory project managers
- Finance and operations: CFOs, heads of securities operations, qualified middle and back office
Our approach
- A written brief with senior management: the real scope of the role, what the firm can offer, what it cannot.
- Name-by-name mapping of the relevant pool in Geneva, Zurich, Lugano and neighbouring centres, cross-border profiles included.
- Direct, personal approach, no advertising. No name circulates without the person’s consent.
- Reference checks before any presentation, regulatory aspects included.
- A short shortlist, followed through to the start date and beyond the probation period.
Reading the market
Geneva private banking is consolidating in number of institutions and concentrating in talent: experienced profiles are fewer, better paid and more cautious. A successful mandate depends as much on the quality of the story the firm tells as on the pay grid. Technology and compliance functions, long treated as support, have become the hardest to fill.
- Private banking · GenevaHead of Database Administration, confidential mandate. Unadvertised role; mapping of the banking and technology pool, name-by-name direct approach, short shortlist presented.
- Financial Services · GenevaFront Office Business Analyst. Brief built with business and IT teams, compensation tested against the market, search run by a partner through to the start date.
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Confidential · No commitment · Two slots a day