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Risk and financial advisory recruitment for financial services and GCCs
From credit, market and quantitative risk to enterprise, technology and cyber risk, and from deals and M&A advisory to valuations, financial modelling and transformation, we help banks, insurers, consultancies and global capability centres hire the people who measure risk and shape decisions.
What risk and financial advisory roles does EliteRecruitments recruit for?
EliteRecruitments recruits across the full risk and financial advisory spectrum. On the risk side: credit, market, quantitative and model risk, enterprise and operational risk, liquidity and balance sheet risk, technology and cyber risk, and regulatory and compliance risk. On the financial advisory side: deals and M&A advisory, financial and commercial due diligence, valuations and financial modelling, financial planning, and financial transformation. It serves banks, insurers, asset managers, consultancies and global capability centres, from analyst to Chief Risk Officer and partner level.
Since 2014
recruiting across risk and the financial functions
80%
screening ratio, candidates we submit get interviewed
85%
joining ratio, offers that become joiners
Buy and sell side
analyst to Chief Risk Officer and partner
The centre of the landscape
Sharp judgement, and the trust to influence decisions
Risk and financial advisory sit at the heart of every financial institution. Risk teams decide how much exposure a firm can safely take, and financial advisory teams shape the deals, valuations and transformations that move a business forward. Both demand sharp technical judgement and the trust to influence senior decisions, and both have been reshaped by regulation, by data, and by a level of demand that has made experienced talent genuinely scarce.
We have recruited across risk and the financial functions since the firm’s early years, placing enterprise, operational, quantitative and technology risk specialists, financial controllers, and the advisory and modelling professionals around them. That history matters now, because this is one of the most competitive talent markets in financial services, and clients want a recruiter who understands both the technical detail of a role and where the market is heading.
The risk roles we recruit
Risk is not one discipline
It spans the people who price and manage credit and market exposure, the quants who build the models, the specialists who govern operational, technology and cyber risk, and the leaders who own the whole picture, on both the buy side and the sell side.
Credit risk
Across retail, wholesale, corporate and counterparty credit, from analysts and modellers to heads of credit risk and chief credit officers, including credit risk modelling, portfolio risk and the IFRS 9 and expected credit loss work within it.
Market and traded risk
Across all asset classes: traded market risk on the sell side, non traded risk including interest rate risk in the banking book, and the buy side market and investment risk roles within hedge funds, asset managers and trading firms.
Quantitative risk and modelling
Quant risk managers, model developers and model validation specialists, spanning market, counterparty, retail, wholesale, liquidity, economic scenario generation and increasingly climate and AI model risk. A scarce, highly technical group.
Liquidity, capital and prudential
Liquidity risk, capital risk, balance sheet risk and recovery and resolution specialists, an area that has grown sharply since the financial crisis, for banks, financial services firms and the consultancies that serve them.
Operational and enterprise
The roles that own the firm wide risk picture, the risk appetite, the register and second line oversight, increasingly including climate and ESG risk as boards and regulators expect enterprise functions to govern sustainability risk too.
Technology and cyber
A fast growing area as financial firms become more digital and more exposed. These professionals keep firms within policy, regulation and risk appetite, and are among the hardest risk hires to make well.
Regulatory and compliance
Regulatory change, risk governance and the compliance dimension of risk. Deeper audit, internal controls, SOX and financial crime compliance sit on our Audit page, which this page connects to.
Risk leadership
Chief Risk Officers, heads of risk and the senior leaders who build and run risk functions. Confidential, judgement heavy searches that sit alongside our Executive Search practice.
The financial advisory roles we recruit
Where risk protects the balance sheet, advisory shapes the deals
We recruit across the deal and finance advisory landscape, the same disciplines the major professional services firms organise their deals and transaction services practices around.
Deals and M&A advisory
M&A and corporate finance professionals across the deal lifecycle, from origination and execution to completion, on both the buy side and the sell side, for advisory firms, banks and corporates.
Financial and commercial due diligence
Transaction services professionals who assess the financial and commercial reality of a deal before it closes, across financial due diligence, quality of earnings and commercial due diligence.
Valuations and financial modelling
Valuation specialists and financial modellers across business and asset valuation, deal modelling and the analytical work that underpins a transaction or a strategic decision.
Corporate finance and business partnering
The people who plan, forecast and steer financial performance, from analysts and managers to heads of finance and finance business partners, alongside the deal facing advisory work.
Financial transformation
Finance transformation professionals who modernise how a finance function works, across operating model change, systems, reporting and the data and automation reshaping finance.
Financial advisory leadership
Directors, partners and the senior leaders who run deals, transaction services and finance advisory teams. Confidential, senior searches alongside our Executive Search practice.
The market and the GCC opportunity
One of the most competitive markets in financial services
Regulation keeps raising the bar on risk functions, the deal and transformation agenda keeps demand for advisory and modelling talent high, and the strongest people, often experienced quants, risk leaders and deal professionals, are rarely on the open market. Across banks, insurers, asset managers and consultancies, firms are competing for the same scarce specialists.
The GCC build out in risk and quants
International banks and financial firms are building risk, quantitative, model validation and finance functions in their India centres, not just operational support but genuine analytical and decision making capability. That has created strong demand for exactly the risk, quantitative and financial advisory talent we specialise in, and it is one of the clearest areas where our financial services depth and our reach into the experienced talent pool give us an edge.
Risk in fintech and insurtech
Hybrid roles, where risk meets product and data
Fintech and insurtech firms rarely hire pure, single discipline risk roles. They want people who combine risk expertise with strong analytical and technical capability, because here risk sits right next to product, data and growth. We recruit for exactly those hybrid roles, including credit risk analytics, fraud analytics, risk and decision modelling, model validation, and the compliance technology and regulatory technology roles where risk meets engineering.
Modern risk functions increasingly run on analytics, modelling and data, and the strongest professionals often operate between the two disciplines. This is one reason clients engage us across both our risk and analytics practices: we understand where the disciplines overlap, and we know the people who work in that overlap.
Who we serve
Who we hire risk and advisory talent for
Banks and financial services firms building credit, market, operational and technology risk teams. Insurers and reinsurers strengthening enterprise, capital and model risk. Asset managers, hedge funds and trading firms on the buy side. Consultancies staffing their risk, deals and transaction services practices. And the global capability centres building risk, quantitative and finance functions in India.
Banking
Retail, corporate, investment and private banking risk teams.
Banking industryInsurance and reinsurance
Enterprise, capital and model risk for insurers and reinsurers.
Insurance industryFinTech
Blended risk, analytics and technology roles at speed.
FinTech industryGlobal capability centres
Risk, quantitative and finance functions built in India.
Global Capability CentresWhy our placements hold
We test judgement, not just technical depth
Risk and advisory hiring is unusually easy to get wrong. The technical bar is high, and a candidate can present the right models, deals or frameworks and still lack the judgement, independence or commercial sense the role needs. A risk manager who cannot hold a line with the front office, a quant who cannot explain a model to the people who must trust it, or a deal professional who misreads the commercial picture, all look strong on paper and fail in the role. Our process is built to test for those qualities before any profile reaches you.
That discipline is why our placements last. We screen at an 80 per cent rate and our candidates join at an 85 per cent rate, and since 2014 we have had to return fewer than fifteen fees because a placement left early. In a market where risk and advisory professionals routinely hold several offers, that retention record is hard won and genuinely rare. See how we work
Your specialist
Led by a founder who knows this work first hand
Founder
Shagun Gupta
Founder, oversees all four core practices
EliteRecruitments was built by Shagun Gupta, who founded the firm out of actuarial and has recruited across actuarial, risk, analytics and audit, the four disciplines at the centre of the business. She stays close to the actual work rather than managing it from a distance, and presides over all four practices while staying closest to the senior and most complex searches.
Practice lead
Somya Aggarwal
Leads the risk and financial advisory practice, under Shagun
Somya Aggarwal leads recruitment for our risk and financial advisory practice. A client facing recruitment manager focused on delivery and team leadership, she manages end to end hiring and client relationships across the practice, from credit, market and quantitative risk to operational, enterprise, technology and cyber risk, and the financial advisory side from deals and valuations to corporate finance and transformation. Her focus is understanding each brief precisely and finding the person who genuinely fits it.
She and her team work directly with hiring managers and risk and finance leaders, so when you talk to us about a role, you are talking to someone who understands the work and the market for it, not a generalist passing on a brief.
Proof
When we place, they tend to stay
Fewer than fifteen fees returned since 2014. Representative mandates, shown as role, sector and city, without names, counts or salaries:
Head of Credit Risk
Quantitative Risk Manager
Operational Risk Lead
M&A and Valuations Manager
Illustrative of the role types we recruit. Specific anonymised placements to be confirmed before publishing.
Shagun has always been a delight to work with. She understands the requirement of the role well and suggests candidates accordingly. She is very professional in her approach and I have been able to hire good candidates through her firm.
Success story
Challenge. A leading bank was building an independent model validation function and needed quantitative risk specialists who could challenge models built by much larger teams.
Approach. We mapped the quantitative risk talent pool, assessed genuine modelling and validation capability rather than credentials alone, and matched candidates who could hold their own against senior stakeholders.
Outcome. The core validation team was hired, and the function now operates as a genuine independent check on the bank’s models.
Illustrative format. To be replaced with a real anonymised risk placement before publishing.
Credit risk talent for a new underwriting function, built at speed during a period of rapid portfolio growth.
Operational risk specialists placed across a growing capability centre, all with genuine BFSI domain experience.
More examples are on our Success Stories page.
Related intelligence
Insights from the risk and advisory practice
Market
Why risk and quantitative talent is so hard to hire
What is driving demand across banks, insurers and capability centres, and where the gaps are.
Read the articleGCC
The GCC build out in risk and quants
Why international firms are building model validation and risk functions in India.
Read the articleMethod
How specialist recruitment actually works
Why the strongest risk and advisory professionals are rarely on the job boards, and how specialist sourcing reaches them.
Read the articleView
Why AI cannot replace recruitment agencies
What human judgement adds in roles where technical depth and trust are the whole point.
Read the articleHow to work with us
The right model, with a 90 day guarantee
Retained search for senior and business critical hires such as Chief Risk Officers and deal leaders, contingency for active roles, recruitment process outsourcing where you are hiring at volume, and capability build recruitment when you are standing up a risk, quantitative or finance function from scratch, which is exactly what many capability centres are doing now. For leadership roles, our executive search process applies.
Whichever way we work, our placements come with a 90 day guarantee. If a placement does not work out within 90 days, we replace them. Since 2014 we have had to return fewer than fifteen fees, because our process is built so the guarantee rarely needs to be used. Explore Capability Build Recruitment
One connected ecosystem
Risk sits at the centre of the talent landscape
The same firms building risk functions are hiring the actuaries whose models feed capital and insurance risk, the analytics and data professionals who power risk modelling, and the audit and controls teams that test the risk environment. These functions are one connected ecosystem, and we recruit across all of them, so a relationship that starts with a risk or advisory hire often grows into actuarial, analytics and audit.
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