随着全球新监管制度的不断发展,对高级风险与合规人才的要求也在不断变化。
无论是增强您的高级风险与合规团队以支持您的长期战略,还是为某个特定职位提供临时解决方案,谢菲尔德-霍沃斯广泛的顶级风险管理与合规专家网络意味着我们总能找到合适的人才。
挑战
我们的客户是一家位于中东的主权财富基金。该公司的资产管理规模超过 6500 亿美元。
该客户的使命是代表政府进行投资,提供必要的财政资源,以确保和维持该地区未来的福利。
该客户在过去 10 年中取得了长足的发展,到了公司希望建立一个新的独立风险职能部门,为业务提供更多战略支持的阶段。在麦肯锡进行审查后,谢菲尔德-霍沃斯受命进行全球寻聘,以寻找新的首席风险官以及为其提供支持的执行领导团队。这些职位包括投资风险主管、交易对手风险主管、运营风险主管和风险调整后投资组合分析主管。
搜索的目标是全球买方和卖方行业的 MD 级候选人,以吸引行业领先的风险管理专业人士加入公司。此外,由于变革的任务,那些在其职业生涯中拥有创建和建立风险职能的丰富经验的个人也被列为优先考虑对象。
成果
谢菲尔德-霍沃斯的团队在 18 个月内成功填补了所有指定职位,包括首席风险官和四名直接下属。此外,还同时聘用了两名中层团队成员。
挑战
我们的客户是一家全球性投资银行和金融服务公司。谢菲尔德-海沃氏受命参与一个多年期风险转型项目,为现任集团首席风险官和最初的欧洲、中东和非洲集团首席执行官提供支持。客户一直受到来自英国、其他欧洲和美国监管机构的压力,要求加强首席风险官团队的高层力量。最初的任务是寻找一名英国首席风险官,这是一个新设立的职位。
随后的建设涉及全球每一种风险类型和每一种风险基础设施功能。招聘经理是亚太地区、欧洲、中东和非洲地区以及美国的地区首席执行官,以及新任命的集团首席风险官。
谢菲尔德-霍沃斯与客户合作,成功改造了领导团队,从美国和外国银行组织中选拔了大量高级 MD,从而充分利用了这些候选人可能带来的 CCAR 和美联储经验。
挑战
谢菲尔德-海沃氏与一家新的固定收益系统性基金的联合创始人合作,建立了他们的领导、投资、数据科学和技术团队。他们的业务目标是研究、开发并不断改进适用于固定收益投资管理的科学投资流程。
他们正在开发固定收益投资主题,从风格至上方法到数据科学驱动的阿尔法生成技术,包括将传统上由全权委托固定收益经理使用的技术系统化。其开发领域包括结构化数据利用、科学和循证投资程序、应用和基础算法研发、系统化阿尔法来源研究、高效市场准入,以及创建数据科学和分析工具,以促进阿尔法生成、高效投资组合构建、风险管理,以及投资组合风险和回报的透明来源。
该公司的指导原则是以科学为导向,诚实守信,并在业务的所有关键方面采用流程驱动法。
在 12 个月内,谢菲尔德-霍沃斯成功完成了创始领导团队的组建,并为公司招聘了 30 多名员工,包括联席首席投资官、工程主管、财务总监和运营主管。这反过来又使他们的人力资本计划比原计划提前了一年,使他们能够加快市场战略的实施。
CASE NOTE 01 | STRATEGY CONSULTING AND AI ADVISORY
Client: Global strategy consulting firm, name redacted.
Status: Confidential.
Retained to help build the firm’s new AI advisory practice, a strategic growth priority. The mandate anchors the capability with senior product leadership.
The brief pairs applied AI and software product depth with a record of originating and selling complex senior advisory work. Appointees have to operate credibly with chief product, technology and data officers, and with private equity technology teams.
Built on a 12-month partnership with the firm, working as a retained search partner across the practice. We source senior product leaders who bridge applied AI, software product and advisory sales.
Four senior appointments completed and three further appointments in progress, alongside more than 500 management consulting hires delivered across the practice.
CASE NOTE 02 | CONSULTING AND DIVERSITY
Client: Global professional services firm (Big Four), name redacted.
Status: Confidential.
Over five years we ran a series of executive searches and pipelines to build lasting engagement with senior female talent across the firm’s UK and Middle East practices.
Success depended on the client giving additional time to engage female talent, flexibility on traditional career-path criteria, a supportive interview process with diverse interviewers and sponsors, and candidate access to senior leaders.
Of 23 Partner appointments made since 2018, 65 per cent were female.
CASE NOTE 03 | TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL, DIVERSITY
Client : Global technology and consulting firm, name redacted.
Status: Confidential.
An EMEA-wide engagement in 2023 and 2024 to appoint female SAP leaders in finance and supply chain transformation.
We mapped 143 female partner-level targets in SAP consulting across the region.
Two female Partner appointments: an SAP Centre of Expertise Partner for Denmark, and a pan-European SAP market Partner.
Region
CASE NOTE 04 | STRATEGY CONSULTING AND DIVERSITY
Client: Global management consulting firm (MBB), name redacted.
Status: Confidential.
The firm set out to improve diversity in its Middle East consulting team at Partner-1 and Partner-2 levels. Regional diverse talent was scarce, so we recommended a global pipeline of candidates open to relocation.
We searched Tier 1 and Tier 2 strategy firms and industry candidates with strategy backgrounds, built three pipelines by availability to relocate, and approached 13 per cent more female targets to balance the outcome.
Every individual hired from the pipeline was gender diverse.
CASE NOTE 05 | BUSINESS SERVICES, PRIVATE EQUITY BACKED
Client: Global data and information services firm (PE-backed), name redacted.
Status: Confidential.
Following private equity investment, this data and information services business appointed us as its executive talent partner for a year, supporting all senior hires through an accelerated transformation.
A dedicated, account-managed team ran multi-geography searches across the Americas and Europe, with a gender-balanced senior team set as a defined metric and clear expectations on both sides to keep pace.
33 appointments in 12 months, at a 52 per cent female and 48 per cent male balance, supporting the investor’s transformation of the business.
CASE NOTE 06 | STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS, PRIVATE EQUITY BACKED, CAPABILITY BUILD
Client: UK strategy and operations consultancy (PE-backed), name redacted.
Status: Confidential.
With private equity funding in place, the firm wanted rapid growth without lowering its talent bar. We were engaged on a three-year programme.
A dedicated, account-managed team delivered across multiple mandates: building Digital, Aerospace and Defence, and People and Change service lines, alongside a consistent senior pipeline.
Over 60 senior hires. Partner-level gender diversity rose from 4 per cent to 20 per cent, including female Partners and Directors in new sectors: Defence, Energy, Transport and Aerospace.
4% to 20%
Partner gender diversity
CASE NOTE 07 | STRATEGY AND DATA ANALYTICS, CAPABILITY BUILD
Client: Global professional services firm (Big Four), name redacted.
Status: Confidential.
The firm set out to accelerate its Strategy service line in ASEAN, a global growth priority, with the ambition to quadruple the practice over four years through multiple Partner hires and team lifts. A parallel programme grew its Data and Analytics practice in the region.
A dedicated, account-managed regional team gave the programme ongoing momentum. The task was to convince top talent, including MBB Partners, to consider the firm as a destination for strategy work, working closely with sponsoring Partners to land preferred candidates. For Data and Analytics, we appointed a regional lead Partner first, then country Partners across Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
12 Partners appointed across Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, including a three-Partner team lift from an MBB firm, spanning restructuring and turnaround, consumer goods and retail, life sciences and healthcare, government and public sector, TMT, digital strategy and operations strategy. A follow-on engagement in MENA delivered four further Partner appointments across the UAE and Saudi Arabia.