Assignments

Burns Brightiff operates a flexible business model that enables us to provide a bespoke recruitment service for Associate to MD level (permanent and contract) in the following areas of functional expertise within FinTech and Banking industries.

Given our versatile operating model and ability to work internationally, we have worked on assignments across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas.  We have excelled in forging excellent relationships with both business and HR clients, having successfully placed in excess of 150 permanent staff and 15 contractors since we established the business in 2012, with a very short client list with who we have earned ‘trusted advisor’ status.

By way of example, roles we have delivered on since 2012 include:

CONTRACT STAFF

• Managing Director, Target Operating Model Design
• Managing Director, Head of Innovation, GTB (London)
• Director, Working Capital Advisory
• Director, Learning & Development
• Director, Ringfencing Leads (Trade Finance & Cash Management)
• VP, Marketing & Messaging Leads
• Financial Crime, PEP Project

PERMANENT STAFF

FINTECH

• Chief Commercial Officer
• VP, Head of EMEA Payments, KYC & AML Sales (London)
• VP, Client Partner
• MLRO, EMEA (London)
• Director, Sales Lead, Cash Management & Liquidity (focus Intraday Liquidity Risk Management product)
• Sales Director, Reconciliations (London)
• Director, Business Consultant, Customer Success (London)
• Director, Client Coverage Sales (London)
• Supply Chain Finance Manager (London)
• Credit Analyst
• Operations Manager
• Various additional roles worked on (many of which were paused on account of Covid) include:
  • VP, Head Capital Markets Sales
  • VP, General Manager & Product Lead for Leading POS business
  • EVP, Digital Product Lead
  • EVP, Global Head of Sales, Core Banking
  • CMO, Medium Sized FinTech
  • Enterprise Sales Director, Financial Crime & Fraud

BANKING

• Managing Director, Head of TPS Sales, Americas (New York)
• Managing Director, Head of Central Banks, Sovereign & Supranational Agencies and Sovereign Wealth Funds (London)
• Managing Director, Head of Payments & Cash Management Product Management (London)
• Managing Director, Head of Corporate Cash Sales (London)
• Managing Director, Head of Financial Institutions Product Management (London)
• Managing Director, Head of Fixed Income
• Global Head of FI and NBFI Trade Products (London)
• Regional Head of Trade Finance Product, Asia Pacific (Singapore)
• Executive Director, Investors, Custody (London)
• Executive Director, Inbound Clients (London)
• Director, Receivables, ABL & Corporate Asset Finance (London)
• Director, Head of Liquidity Product (London)
• Director, Structured Trade and Commodity Finance (Singapore)
• Director, Head of Domestic Product (Edinburgh)
• Director, Head of SEPA & Receivables (London)
• Director, Head of Overdrafts Product (London)
• Director, Head of Business Management, Direct Securities Services (London)
• Director, Head of Liquidity Sales (London)
• Director, Local Cash Management Sales, Corporate and Transaction Banking Europe (London)
• Director, Head of Insurance, Transaction Banking FI (London)
• Director, Head of Hedge Funds, Transaction Banking FI (London)
• Director, Relationship Director, US Inbound, MNC (London)
• Director, Relationship Director, Financial Institutions (New York & Frankfurt)
• Director, COO, MNC Corporate Coverage, Europe (London)
• Director, Relationship Director, Fund Managers & Transfer Agencies (London)
• Director & VP, Cash & Trade Management Sales (London) – multiple
• Director & VP, Cash & Trade Product Management (London) – multiple
• Director, Head of Complex Implementations (London)
• Director, Business Manager, PCM (London)
• VP, Relationship Director, Asia Inbound, MNC (London)
• AVP, Commodity Traders & Agribusiness Clients Coverage (Geneva)
• AVP, Relationship Director, Corporate Coverage (France)
• AVP, Structured Products, Private Banking (London)