Recruitment Consultant — Banking & Finance Desk

About the role

Talent Harbour's financial services desk places compliance, finance and operations professionals into licensed corporations and mid-tier banks across Hong Kong Island. The desk has run for six years and has eleven clients on retainer, so this is not a cold start.

You would inherit around forty live candidate relationships and three retained mandates from a consultant who has moved onto our executive search team. From there the desk is yours to grow. We do not police call volumes; we look at placements, client retention and whether a candidate would work with you twice.

Jerome Tang runs the team of six from our Central office. Expect early mornings on interview days and a floor that gets loud when a deal lands.

What you'll do

• Manage the full recruitment cycle for mid-level compliance, finance and operations roles: brief, search, shortlist, interview, offer.
• Build a candidate network through referrals, market mapping and career conversations that are useful even when there is no live role.
• Write job briefs with clients that reflect what they will actually hire, not what the job description says.
• Prepare candidates properly for interview, including the salary conversation nobody wants to have.
• Negotiate offers, manage counter-offer risk and stay in touch through the notice period.
• Keep the CRM accurate — a clean database is the desk's only real asset.
• Contribute quarterly salary insight to the practice's market notes.

What we're looking for

• One to four years in agency recruitment, or a client-facing sales record you can evidence with numbers.
• Cantonese and English at business level: most candidate calls happen in Cantonese, most client emails in English.
• Resilience — the desk does not care how good your Monday was by the time Thursday arrives.
• Genuine curiosity about how financial services firms are structured and who reports to whom.

Nice to have

• An existing network in Hong Kong compliance or finance functions.
• Mandarin for candidates relocating from the Mainland.
• Exposure to contract or interim staffing.

What you get

• Base salary plus uncapped commission from the first placement, no threshold
• Quarterly incentive trips — last year Da Nang and Taipei
• Early Friday finish once the desk hits target
• Medical and dental, with employer MPF at 7.5%
• Published billing milestones to Senior Consultant, so promotion is arithmetic