Financial Services.

Your Recruiting Partners in Financial Services.

Global headhunters in Financial Services & FinTech for over 20 years.

Our Financial Services practice is led by Managing Director, Phil Brakewell, who brings over two decades of global executive search experience supporting banks, insurers, fintech innovators, and private equity-backed financial platforms.

Having partnered with leading organisations across the UK, Europe, and North America, Phil’s expertise lies in building high-performing leadership teams that can navigate transformation, regulatory change, and digital disruption. His background working with both established institutions and fast-growth ventures enables him to understand the challenges — and opportunities — shaping modern financial services.

Named one of the Top 100 Leaders in Staffing in 2023, Phil combines deep market insight with a passion for innovation and technology, ensuring our clients benefit from data-driven precision and speed in every mandate.

With global reach, AI-enhanced sourcing, and a seamless delivery model, our Financial Services practice connects ambitious organisations with leaders who can drive resilience, compliance, and commercial success in an evolving market.

Phil Brakewell.

Managing Director

+44 (0) 7889 441124

phil@partnerwise.co.uk

OUR WORLD OF DIFFERENCE.

24/7 AI-Sourcing.

Our fusing of traditional network’s with AI global sourcing tech rapidly opens the gateway to previously unreachable, exclusive and more diverse candidates, insights and intelligence that enriches the performance of our customers.

Customer Led Approach.

We invest time to understand and from which craft personalised solutions and product and service offerings and fee structures that directly address your specific challenges or aspirations.

our global reach.

Our reach is highly specialist, genuinely global, data driven and fully supported by multiple years of industry and talent hiring expertise.

Outpace the Competition.

Harness our expertise to recruit leaders who understand the dynamics of the financial services sector.

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  • “I worked with Phil for a couple of years and my dealings with him were invariably open and honest. We worked to develop a new recruitment model for Coats and Phil was instrumental in making that a success. He always worked with a high degree of integrity and inevitably delivered, even on the most challenging search assignments.”

    SVP HR | Transformation leader