Senior Executive Recruiter

About Us

About Us

Job Title:

Senior Exec Recruiter - Financial Services

Location:

London hybrid (2 days a week on client-site)

Working Hours/Shifts:

Full Time

Employment Type:

12 months - fixed term contract

Talent is our World.

At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. As part of our commitment to your growth and development, we encourage you to explore opportunities available within our organisation. Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're dedicated to providing avenues for you to reach its fullest potential. We do so by providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences essential for your progress.

Take the next step in your career journey and discover our exciting opportunities.

The Role

Would you like to support a key Financial Services client with Executive level hires?

If you have a passion for doing things better - for both your clients and your career - bring it to AMS and unleash your potential.

Who will I be working with?

You can expect to work with client stakeholders e.g., Hiring Managers, Recruiters (AMS and Client) and Candidates.

Key Accountabilities

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior hiring managers and key stakeholders.
• Deliver end-to-end recruitment independently, providing expert guidance, insight and ensuring timelines are met.
• Lead attraction strategy discussions with Sourcing and hiring managers, aligning approaches to market conditions.
• Recommend suitable talent profiles and coach hiring managers on realistic expectations.
• Monitor candidate funnel metrics with Sourcing, identifying and resolving bottlenecks early.
• Collaborate closely with Sourcing, Interview Scheduling and Administration teams to ensure a smooth client and candidate experience.
• Take full ownership of recruitment delivery in line with contractual obligations and SLAs.
• Lead vacancy consultations covering role requirements, sourcing strategy, DEI needs, pay ranges, timelines, responsibilities and selection processes.
• Work with Sourcing to refine pipelines and jointly review shortlists with hiring managers.
• Ensure an excellent candidate experience from initial interview through to offer and start date.
• Support hiring decisions and lead complex offer processes and negotiations.
• Proactively identify potential stakeholder issues, taking action and escalating where appropriate.
• Support demand planning by facilitating forecasting discussions with client resourcing leads.
• Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines, sharing insights and providing regular talent pool updates.
• Share best practice and knowledge from other teams to enhance delivery.
• Contribute to or lead projects outside the core remit when required.
• Recommend continuous improvement initiatives and identify upsell opportunities, including assessing their impact.
• Ensure real-time updates of candidate statuses and requisition changes across all systems.
• Identify and flag scope creep to support contractual governance.
• Maintain consistently high data accuracy standards.
• Identify and track compliance risks in line with the AMS Risk Management Framework, recommending solutions.

Skills & Requirements

You'll need to demonstrate:

Must haves:

• Significant recruitment delivery experience in senior hiring up to MD-level, ideally within Financial Services or complex global organisations.
• Demonstrated credibility and gravitas when interacting with senior leaders (ED/MD level).
• Strong advisory capability - able to challenge, influence, and coach stakeholders effectively.
• Proven success in identifying and assessing niche, senior talent across functions (Risk, Finance, Compliance, HR, Audit, Legal, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to distil insights and recommendations clearly.
• Highly organised, resilient, and able to manage multiple senior processes concurrently.

Nice to haves:

• Experience working within Executive Search functions

Why AMS?

Every one of us plays a pivotal role in our success, whether engaging directly with clients or shaping the value we add behind the scenes. Together, it means more insight and expertise for our clients and more exciting career paths and experiences for us.

Apart from our benefits package, you'll also get to enjoy the flexibility, autonomy, and trust to work in a way that works best for you. We just focus on providing the means to meet, collaborate, and support each other however you choose.

We offer:

• Full training and support

• High value and challenging work

• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture

• Flexible working

• A competitive reward and benefits package*

• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world's leading recruitment companies

*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email Talent@weareams.com or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

Hit the Apply now button to get your journey started!

We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long - term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.