London City Recruitment Agencies

The agencies below have been sourced from / recommended by a mix of recruitment websites, commentators and professionals operating in the City/financial services sector.

* denotes those agencies that are NOT purely focused on ‘CITY’ recruiting alone, ie may also recruit into financial positions in industry. All operate globally unless otherwise specified.

Locations and Sectors in bold denote particular agency activity in this location or field.  Shaded entries denote more generic or junior-level roles.

NB: the list below does NOT include executive search consultancies (aka headhunters).

Agency URL & Phone number Area Sector(s) Current job sample
Badenoch & Clark www.badenochandclark.com EMEA, UK Banking & Finance

Services & IT

Public Sector

 Ops testing, private equity

Credit analyst, counterparty risk

Client reporting analyst
Barclay Simpson www.barclaysimpson.com

+44 (0)207 936 2601

 EMEA Audit ; Compliance

IT & Tech

Risk

 Compliance monitoring analyst

Consultant, info security

Operational risk analyst
Citifocus www.citifocus.co.uk

+44 (0) 207 248 1022

 UK Back, Mid, Front office N/A
Cornell Partnership[1] www.cornellpartnership.com

+44 (0) 207 776 5200

 EMEA ALL Analyst / Associate

Graduate trainee
Goodman Masson www.goodmanmasson.com

+44 (0) 20 7336 7711

 UK Mergers & Acquisitions

Equity Research

 Lead Analyst, European Banks (Southern Europe)

Associate Analyst, Consumer Goods

Associate Analyst, Telecoms
Graduate Solutions[1] www.graduate-solutions.com

+44 (0) 207 278 7070

 EMEA ALL Analyst / Associate

Graduate trainee
Hays Banking www.hays.co/banking

+44 (0) 207 702 2434

 EMEA ALL (mostly OPS) Trade support

Business analyst
Huxley Associates www.huxleyassociates.co.uk

+44 (0) 207 743 8555

 AP, EMEA, US Acc & Finance;

IT & Tech

 Biz analyst
Huxley Global Markets www.huxleyglobalmarkets.com

+44 (0) 207 743 8555

 AP, EMEA, US Global MarketsPrivate

Banking

 Jnr financial advisor, PB
Joslin Rowe www.joslinrowe.com

+44 (0) 207 786 6900

 Mostly UK Gen finance, acc, banking Research associate
Michael Page City www.michaelpage.co.uk

+44 (0) 207 776 5920 (city)

+44 (0) 207 715 2950 (cw)

 UK Fin Services ASA analyst

Regulatory analyst
Morgan McKinley www.morganmckinley.com

+44 (0) 207 557 7222

 AU, CH, HK, JA, NE, SG, UK Asset Management

Commodities

Credit & Quant

Investment Banking

 Market risk analyst

Trade support

Project manager – risk control

Private banking exec
MRL Financial* www.mrl-financial.com

+44 (0)1273 320 860 (HQ)

+44 (0)207 643 2546

 DE, FR, GU,
SG, UK		 IT & Tech;

Risk(also gen industry)

 Assoc, audit IT (SG)

Tech support analyst

Quantitative risk analyst
PE Recruit www.perecruit.com

+44 (0) 20 7747 7888

 EMEA, Japan, Russia, USA Private Equity Analyst/Associate

Private Equity
Robert Half[2] www.roberthalf.co.uk

+44 (0) 207 562 6500

 UK; US; EU; HK General finance & accounting Financial analyst

Asset management accountant

Client onboarding support, Russian
Robert Walters* www.robertwalters.com

+44 (0) 7379 3333

 AP; UK; EU; US General Finance Client service associate
Recruit Associates www.recuitassociates.com

(0) 800 111 7800

 Energy;

Hedge Fund

IT; Quant; Risk;

Sales & Trading

 Credit analyst

IT / Tech business analyst

Quant analyst
Selby Jennings[3] www.selbyjennings.com

+44 (0) 207 019 4100

 AP, EMEA, US Analysis; Corp Finance

Quant; Risk

Sales & Trading

 Jnr Quant researcher

Entry level product controller
Thomson Keene www.thomsonkeene.com

+44 (0) 207 868 1668

 UK IT & Tech Trader support

Developer
[1] The Cornell Partnerhip & Graduate Solutions both mostly operate mass graduate recruitment campaigns on behalf of banking clients.

[2] Reputation for having more junior-level, generic finance roles

[3] Roles mostly more senior than entry level

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