en

Expertise

Our specialist consultants are experts across a range of disciplines, connecting you with the right talent for your permanent, temporary, contract, or interim jobs. Share your requirements and our experts will get in touch.

Submit a vacancy
Accounting & Finance Partner with us to find highly skilled accounting and finance professionals who will drive your organisation’s financial success. Legal Access top-tier legal talent through our network of the UK's most recognised in-house and law firm specialists. Procurement & Supply Chain Let us connect you with procurement and supply chain experts who can optimise your operations and deliver results. Technology Hire innovative tech professionals to lead your organisation’s digital transformation and cutting-edge projects. Banking & Financial Services Connect with exceptional financial services talent across diverse roles and sectors. Risk, Compliance & Financial Crime Strengthen your team with experienced professionals in risk management, compliance, and financial crime prevention. Human Resources Recruit HR leaders who will empower your workforce and drive organisational growth. Sales & Commercial Hire dynamic sales and commercial professionals who align with your goals and drive business growth across industries. Business Support Connect with skilled administrative and support professionals who will enhance efficiency across your organisation. Projects, Change & Transformation Bring on board change-makers who will lead successful transformations and drive innovation within your business. Manufacturing & Engineering Access technical specialists who combine expertise and innovation to elevate your manufacturing and engineering capabilities. Marketing Collaborate with creative marketing professionals who will amplify your brand’s presence and deliver impactful campaigns.
Expertise

Our specialist consultants are experts across a range of disciplines, connecting you with the right talent for your permanent, temporary, contract, or interim jobs. Share your requirements and our experts will get in touch.

Submit a vacancy
Jobs

Let our industry specialists listen to your aspirations and present your story to the most esteemed organisations in the UK, as we collaborate to write the next chapter of your successful career.

See all jobs
About Robert Walters UK

Since our establishment in 1985, our belief remains the same: Building strong relationships with people is vital in a successful partnership.

Learn more

Work for us

Our people are the difference. Hear stories from our people to learn more about a career at Robert Walters UK

Learn more

Executive Recruiter (12 Month FTC)

Save job

Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services for businesses of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds. We help organisations find the skills and solutions to reach their goals and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential. We offer our people incredible career opportunities as well as an inclusive culture and flexible working.

Our people in HR touch every part of our business. They shape the way we work. They find and recruit the brightest talent. They develop their skills through structured, on-going training. They give every single member of our staff the chance to achieve their career goals and make work exceptionally rewarding.

Join our Talent Acquisition team as an Executive Recruiter focused on senior Technology hiring. You will lead Managing Director-level searches globally across areas including Engineering, Data, Infrastructure, AI and CISO, partnering with senior business leaders to attract, assess and secure exceptional technology talent for the bank.

What you will be doing

  • Lead end-to-end MD-level technology executive searches, from briefing and market mapping through assessment, offer and onboarding.
  • Identify, approach and engage senior passive technology talent globally, with a focus on financial services and adjacent technology markets.
  • Partner with senior leaders, HR, Talent Acquisition and Reward to shape hiring strategy, assessment, succession pipelines and offers.
  • Assess candidates against leadership impact, technology expertise, strategic fit, risk awareness and cultural alignment.
  • Build deep market intelligence across priority technology disciplines, including competitor structures, people moves and talent hotspots.
  • Use data, insight and recruitment technology to improve search quality, candidate experience and hiring outcomes.
  • Ensure every search is delivered with strong governance, discretion, risk awareness and compliance.


Who you are

  • Experience in executive talent acquisition or retained search, with a strong track record hiring senior technology leaders.
  • Strong network and market knowledge across senior technology talent, ideally within financial services.
  • Proven ability to engage passive executive candidates and present high-quality shortlists, insight and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  • Confidence advising and influencing senior leaders in a complex, global organisation.
  • Knowledge of executive compensation, offer management and hiring governance.
  • Ability to turn recruitment data and market intelligence into clear, practical hiring advice.
  • Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
  • Ability to operate with a high degree of discretion and professionalism


Benefits:

  • A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
  • A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you’ll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
  • Private medical insurance
  • A fantastic training and development programme
  • Volunteer time off
  • The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
  • Employee wellbeing through various programmes
  • You’ll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That’s the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP


As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.

This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.

Robert Walters - Global Talent Solutions

Apply now!

Contract Type: Temporary Interim Management

Specialism: Banking & Financial Services

Focus: Finance & Accounting

Industry: Financial Services

Salary: Competitive Package

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Experience Level: Associate

Language: English - Professional working

Location: City of London

Job Reference: 8543

Date posted: 13 July 2026

Consultant: Nic Farmer