fintechSTAR is Excelsior’s proprietary search process

fintechSTAR is Excelsior’s proprietary search process

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A niche executive search capability the “big blue chip search” companies can’t compete with. 

Executive Search is a primary area of service to Excelsior’s clients around the world. We can help you find the best people, build successful teams, and generate value for shareholders through excellence. We find exceptional leaders who are in tune with your markets and the culture of your organisation.

Close Working Relationships and Understanding

At Excelsior, we develop close and effective working partnerships with you to ensure we understand your strategic issues and search requirements. This relationship is based on listening, integrity and trust.

Deep Knowledge across the International Fintech Market

Success in search requires being in tune with local markets. Our team have deep roots in their communities. Through local ownership, we understand emerging regional issues and provide you with important local insights.

Global Coverage

We have the coverage to search the world for talent and tap into the increasingly international pool of senior executive leaders. We deliver executive search through our powerful network in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia/Pacific, Latin America and North America.

International/Cross-Border Capacity

We seek the best candidates, wherever they are located; the extensive cooperation enables us to spread a far-reaching net. As a team we work together seamlessly to meet your needs.

Industry Specialisation

We offer you over 20 years deep industry knowledge through our specialism purely focused on the financial technology industry. Our global consultants have extensive fintech sector expertise and stay on top of global trends and issues affecting the market.

Excelsior’s approach is consultative. We listen closely to understand your situation and your needs.


 

Our executive search process

Excelsior’s work is founded on a comprehensive and disciplined approach that ensures finding suitable executive candidates who match above and beyond your requirements.

Our comprehensive approach, and exclusive focus on financial technology enables us to respond with a rapid and deep understanding of your needs.

Our ownership partners and lead consultants are hands-on partners to your business, working directly and closely with you to understand your needs and then engage directly across the target market for your search.

  • Discovery: We work with you to understand your needs in detail from which we develop our executive search strategy.

  • Engagement: We will know where your ideal executive candidate is likely to be found and identify the right international pool of talent to target. We access our network of industry connections for referrals and recommendations and pro-actively reach out to freshly targeted candidates that may be outside our network aswell. This ensures that every angle is covered to identify and assess the best executive talent for you.​ We then carry out a detailed assessment of each candidate to assess their competencies and executive qualities against your requirements.​

  • Presentation: We’ll present a strong short list of executive talent, that whom are already “sold” on and highly motivated for your opportunity.​

  • Selection: We’ll work in partnership with you in order to faciliate your interview process for the short list. 

  • Closing: The trusted relationship we’ll have build with both you and each candidates faciliates closure of your chosen candidate.

  • Aftercare:  We stay with you and the candidate on placement and onwards, providing any additional assistance we can as part of a strengthened mutually beneficial partnership.

Deep search consultant experience and appreciation of the nature of our fintech niche market to source the best available talent anywhere in the world, is why we excel in executive search compared to the more generalist search firms in this sector.

Should you be a fintech firm looking to engage a collaborative search partner please click to request a callback  from a member of the Excelsior team.