About Us

A Financial Services Recruitment company, focused on making the traditionally laborious recruitment process quite simply easier and more enjoyable! We work within the highly competitive Square Mile, specialising in Debt/Capital Markets, Structured Finance, Securitisation, Corporate Trust, Corporate Services, Loans/Loans Agency and Asset/Fund Management. We are entrusted by clients and candidates alike to provide an exceptional service, ensuring we understand our brief fully and are able to match effectively creating long term working relationships all round.

We are a niche agency developed by people who are passionate about what they do. SMC founded in 2005, has grown and developed into a leading boutique search firm known for its professionalism, knowledge, connections and overall expertise of contingent and retained search!

SMC has over 15 years’ experience working with exceptional talent within Banking and Financial Services, and whilst we could write many fantastic things about our business/team, instead we will give you it in a nutshell: –

SMC was born out of a desire to provide professionals with a bespoke and consultative approach to recruitment, moving away from the conveyor belt, numbers game industry it had become. Our relationships are testament to our survival and the most treasured part of what we do. We want to ensure that every part of your journey with us is an enjoyable one, ensuring longevity in our working relationship.

Our Ethos

We have a strong ethos that building enduring relationships based on listening, trust, efficiency, professionalism and ideally a little fun along the way, with clients and candidates alike, which has been pivotal in our success.

 

Our 3 Key Components: 

 

Relationship

Building and maintaining relationships enabling a depth of understanding which sets us apart from the competition. We are people not numbers, therefore it is important for us to get to know the people and worry less about the numbers. Searching using a holistic approach to find the talent or the job you are looking for!;

Expertise

We are not jack of all trades, but we have mastered our niche! We have stuck to our guns, not deviated from our path and created solid market expertise where our candidates, and clients come to us because we make it easy.We have the knowledge, work hard and provide exceptional results!

Networking

Our business is built on a solid foundation of knowing the right people in the right places, where we have created a large network of exceptional people. Whilst we have a honed recruitment strategy, where we use various methods to identify talent and new business, as the old saying goes it's not what you know, it's who you know! We have nurtured and grown a large network of professionals across a niche market and if for any reason we don't know someone, we know someone who does!

 

DEI is not just a concept at SMC, it is at the heart of everything we do, it always has been.  It is not a new thing!