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 |
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| 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
Popularity: 3% [?]
Most recruitment agencies are pure scum. They come up with ghost job ads in order to collect CVs for their databases, live by keywords that they don not even understand, never call people, etc. They all understand how the front office works, and of course, play golf with Lloyd Blankfein on Monday night.