Recruitment Manager | FinTech

Company OverviewOur client, a global financial services and fintech group, operates across regulated markets in the UAE, UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia, with a strong presence across FX, CFDs, digital assets, payments, and trading technology. The organization is continuing to scale its international operations and strengthen its leadership, technology, product, commercial, and corporate functions across multiple markets.Role OverviewWe are seeking an experienced Recruitment Manager to lead and strengthen the end-to-end recruitment function across the organization. The role will be responsible for managing recruitment delivery, leading the Talent Acquisition team, improving hiring processes, and partnering closely with senior stakeholders to ensure roles are clearly defined, properly prioritized, and filled with the right talent. This is a hands-on management position requiring a strong recruiter who can balance team leadership, senior hiring, recruitment operations, workforce planning, stakeholder management, and reporting within a fast-paced international environment.ResponsibilitiesLead and manage the Talent Acquisition team, ensuring clear ownership, priorities, performance standards, and recruitment delivery across open positions.Oversee end-to-end recruitment across technology, product, AI, operations, finance, legal, compliance, marketing, commercial, and corporate functions.Personally manage senior, specialist, and business-critical searches where required.Partner with hiring managers and senior leadership to define role requirements, candidate profiles, hiring priorities, and realistic market expectations.Review and challenge job requirements where necessary to ensure searches are commercially realistic and properly calibrated.Develop sourcing strategies across direct search, LinkedIn, referrals, recruitment platforms, talent mapping, and external agencies where required.Build and maintain talent pipelines for recurring, niche, and strategically important positions.Establish consistent recruitment processes covering requisition approval, sourcing, screening, interviewing, assessment, offer management, and candidate communication.Introduce structured interview and evaluation frameworks to improve consistency and quality of hiring decisions.Monitor recruitment activity, hiring progress, aging vacancies, pipeline quality, offer acceptance, and time-to-hire.Produce regular recruitment dashboards and management reports for senior stakeholders.Support workforce planning and recruitment forecasting based on approved headcount and business priorities.Ensure recruitment activity remains aligned with approved organizational structures, budgets, salary ranges, and hiring approvals.Manage relationships with recruitment agencies and external talent partners, including performance, quality, and commercial terms.Continuously identify opportunities to improve recruitment efficiency, candidate experience, hiring manager experience, and overall recruitment governance.Work closely with HR, Talent Operations, Finance, and business leadership throughout the hiring and onboarding process.RequirementsBachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field.Approximately 8–12+ years of recruitment or Talent Acquisition experience, including experience managing recruiters or a Talent Acquisition team.Strong track record managing end-to-end recruitment across multiple functions and seniority levels.Proven experience recruiting senior, specialist, technical, and business-critical positions.Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work confidently with senior leadership and demanding hiring managers.Experience building recruitment processes, reporting frameworks, sourcing strategies, and recruitment governance.Strong understanding of talent mapping, direct sourcing, market research, candidate assessment, and structured interviewing.Comfortable operating in a high-volume, fast-moving, and internationally distributed organization.Strong analytical capability with experience using recruitment data and KPIs to evaluate performance and identify bottlenecks.Experience with ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, recruitment analytics, and modern sourcing tools.Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.Experience within financial services, fintech, technology, brokerage, payments, digital assets, or similarly fast-paced regulated industries would be advantageous.UAE or regional recruitment experience would be an advantage.