How long does a typical recruitment engagement take?

For technology roles in financial services, most mandates close within 3 to 5 weeks from brief to offer. Niche or leadership roles may take 6 to 8 weeks.

What is your fee structure?

We work on a success fee basis. No placement, no fee. There are no retainers or upfront charges for talent acquisition engagements.

Do you work with startups or only established firms?

We work with growth-stage fintechs, established NBFCs and banks, and financial services GCCs. The common thread is the financial services domain, not company size.

What roles do you specialise in?

Technology, product, risk, compliance, and senior business roles within financial services and fintech firms. We do not take generalist mandates.

How we work

Every engagement is different. The rigour is not.

We do not run a volume hiring operation. We work on a defined number of mandates at any time, and every engagement is led directly by the founding team. Here is what that looks like in practice.

Talent acquisition, from brief to closure

Brief and calibration

We start with a structured briefing. Not a JD review but a conversation about the role context, team dynamics, and what good looks like. We push back where the brief needs sharpening.
Market scan and sourcing

We source from our active network in financial services and fintech, not job portals. Our pipelines are built from direct outreach to passive candidates who are not actively applying elsewhere.
Assessment and shortlist

Every candidate is assessed against the brief before submission. We do not forward CVs. We submit a shortlist with our written assessment of each profile.
Client review and interviews

We coordinate and support the interview process: scheduling, briefing candidates, managing feedback loops. You will always know where every candidate stands.
Offer and closure

We manage offer negotiation, candidate engagement through the notice period, and post-joining follow-up. Our offer-to-join rate stays high because we do not abandon an engagement at offer stage.

What you can expect

No CVs without context

We send a shortlist with our written assessment of each candidate, not a dump of forwarded profiles.

Seven-day status rule

No candidate stays without a status update beyond seven days. You will always know where things stand.

One team, not a relay

The person you brief is the person who delivers. Engagements are led directly by the founding team.

Other engagement types

Fractional HR

A senior HR business partner embedded with your team on a structured monthly retainer. Engagements run on a 90-day priority plan with a defined quarterly review cadence.

Learn about fractional HR

Talent intelligence

Fixed-fee compensation benchmarking and hiring market analysis. Typical turnaround is 10 to 15 working days, scoped before the engagement starts.

Learn about talent intelligence

Hiring effectiveness

An audit, redesign, and 60-day implementation engagement. Fixed fee, defined scope, measurable outcomes against shortlist acceptance, offer-to-join, and time-to-fill.

Learn about hiring effectiveness

How we work

Talent acquisition, from brief to closure

Brief and calibration

Market scan and sourcing

Assessment and shortlist

Client review and interviews

Offer and closure