Executive Finance Recruitment

Are you searching for senior executive leaders to strengthen your finance operations? Selby Jennings specializes in executive finance recruitment for interim and permanent roles across M&A advisory, transaction services, valuations, and financial modeling.

With more than 20 years of executive finance recruitment experience, we support organizations and executive finance professionals across the US, Europe, and Asia. Request a call back or submit your profile to discuss hiring needs or leadership opportunities.

Finance Recruitment

Supporting every step of your executive finance recruitment journey

Diverse executive finance talent pool

Access a broad network of senior finance professionals, including firm partners, directors, and high-potential managers. Our global relationships and industry connections speed up the search and help surface strong candidates, including those not actively job searching. This approach supports accurate temporary and permanent placements.

Executive finance industry expertise

Hiring for specialized finance roles like mergers and acquisitions, transaction services, valuations, and financial modeling brings real challenges. With over 20 years of experience, our senior executive finance recruiters understand these roles and deliver candidates with the right background and leadership capability. We focus on close alignment for highly specialized senior positions.

Personalized executive finance recruitment solutions

We tailor our services to your business goals, from interim support to permanent hires. Our priority is senior finance leaders with the right skills and a strong cultural fit. Each engagement adapts to changing business and market demands.

Long-term executive partnerships

We build long-term partnerships and operate as an extension of your HR team. This includes support for diversity hiring strategies and compensation benchmarking. Our approach adds ongoing value and keeps your executive hiring aligned with current and future priorities.

We connect investment firms and financial institutions with top-performing executives across front office, technology, and leadership roles. Our finance executive recruiters specialize in board recruitment, C-suite appointments, and senior leadership mandates across credit, alternatives, and institutional platforms.

We support hiring for:

  • C-level roles [CFO, COO, CEO, CTO, CRO]
  • Board members and non-executive directors
  • Heads of finance, risk, operations, compliance, and technology
  • Senior investment professionals [Principal to MD]
  • apital markets, fundraising, and investor relations leadership

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  • Private credit and direct lending firms
  • Alternative investment managers
  • Multi-strategy hedge funds and credit-focused hedge funds
  • Investment banks and advisory boutiques
  • Private equity firms and infrastructure investors
  • Family offices, sovereign wealth funds, and pensions
  • Fintech and credit-focused technology platforms
  • Asset managers and insurance-linked investment firms

Looking for executive search support across finance, technology, or board-level hiring? Speak to our team today.

Selby Jennings offers various workforce solutions tailored to your specific objectives.

  • Permanent hires
    Our executive finance permanent search services, delivered through contingent or retained executive search, help you secure leaders who drive long-term impact.
  • Contract hires
    Our executive finance contractors and interim leaders integrate quickly into your organization to support short-term priorities and critical initiatives.
  • Multi-hire projects
    We take a consultative approach to executive finance hiring, managing the full recruitment process from sourcing through placement across large-scale or time-sensitive projects.
Selby Jennings has been a reliable partner on our executive hiring. They understand the complexity of leadership recruitment and consistently introduce candidates who meet the brief, both technically and culturally. Their knowledge across C-suite and board-level roles adds real value to our search process.

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For executive finance professionals

Selby Jennings supports executive finance professionals moving into senior leadership roles. Register your interest by submitting your professional profile. We review profiles for interim and permanent executive finance roles across M&A advisory, transaction services, valuations, and financial modeling.

Our consultants work on confidential executive finance mandates with leading financial services firms.

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Executive finance FAQs

Executive finance recruitment focuses on hiring senior finance leaders for strategic roles. This includes CFOs, finance directors, partners, and heads of corporate finance. Selby Jennings specialises in executive finance recruitment across financial services, supporting both interim and permanent appointments.

Executive finance recruitment uses a targeted and confidential approach. It involves market mapping, direct outreach, and detailed assessment of leadership experience. Selby Jennings applies this model to identify senior finance professionals aligned to business strategy and growth plans.

Roles include CFO, finance director, partner, managing director, and senior leaders across M&A advisory, transaction services, valuations, and financial modelling. Selby Jennings focuses on executive finance roles within financial services firms.

Timelines vary by role and market conditions, but executive finance searches often take several weeks to a few months. Selby Jennings manages the process efficiently while maintaining a high level of due diligence.

Assessment includes structured interviews, career and deal track record review, leadership evaluation, and reference checks. Selby Jennings applies deep market knowledge to assess technical expertise and leadership capability.