Now holding a critical contributing role to the development and delivery of corporate strategy, senior compliance and risk professionals are increasingly moving out of the back-office and onto the board. Be it managing increasingly complex regulatory systems and greater investor scrutiny of environmental, social & Governance factors, to steering international expansion and Mergers & Acquisition; Risk & Compliance Officers are taking a more central role in helping organisations navigate change and growth.
At Green Park we understand effective leadership in Risk, Compliance and Corporate Governance roles requires a distinct blend of skills, from sector-specific regulatory expertise to engaging stakeholders and building relationships with regulators. Working across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, we place leaders able to drive corporate cultural change, while bring strategic commercial thinking to risk and compliance responsibilities. They include Chief Risk Officers, Compliance Offers, Chief Controllers, Heads of Function and Governance Officers who bring the required aptitude and experience.
Our team has more than 20 years’ executive search experience in financial services, as well as practical in-house experience working for leading businesses in the sector. We understand the complex demands of the highly regulated financial services sector and the changing regulatory landscape. With wide experience across the financial services sector, we are adept at cross-sourcing talent, for example, bringing insurance experts to banking roles, or bankers to asset management clients.
52%
Female Search Placements
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Ethnic Minority Search Placements
For technical roles that also require high levels of strategic business experience, many organisations compete in the same relatively narrow talent pool. Our well-established talent network and close contact with candidates puts us in a strong position to bring the very best people to client shortlists.
We regularly undertake talent searches for non-executive risk and compliance roles in private, public and third sector organisations. As the demand for Risk & Compliance professionals has moved beyond the traditional finance and health sectors, we have successfully utilised our deep candidate relationships to place experienced professionals across sectors.
We also apply our industry-leading diversity and inclusion expertise to help clients improve inclusivity while adhering to the demands of operating in highly regulated industries. Our personal expertise is backed up by our recruitment data and insights that helps clients to scope out their search parameters so talent acquisition delivers ‘right first time’ results.
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Leaders Trained In Inclusive Leadership Capabilities
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Candidate Recommendation Rate
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Nicole Seredenko
Head of Product & Insights
"Green Park's proposal had diversity at the heart, rather than just an add on - and this gave us confidence that in working with them we would be partnering with an organisation who held the same values as our own in this area."
Claire Burles
Group People Director | Stage Coach
"Jo Sweetland of Green Park is just the best. She absolutely IS Green Park. Hard working. Super smart and understands a client’s needs. Jo has deep market relationships and superb networks. She sets the benchmark for Search in the recruitment industry. I would never hesitate to recommend Jo Sweetland to anyone. A delight to work with BUT more importantly brings the best results."
Matthew Jeffery
Head of UKI Recruitment | EY
“Working with Green Park made this important and potentially challenging appointment process smooth and easy to navigate. The recruitment professionals that they assigned to the project communicated consistently and articulately with the variety of different stakeholders involved in the process; they were sensitive but did not steer away from being honest about the difficult realities involved in this recruitment campaign which resulted in expectations being expertly managed and trust being embedded. I would highly recommend Green Park for senior executive search campaigns, especially in the culture and creative industry.”
Charlotte Cowan
Head of People & Culture | Shakespeare's Globe
"Raj and his team are genuinely looking to drive change - and they really seem to care. Green Park has placed me on two interim assignments so far, both of which have been right up my alley. It's been a genuine pleasure doing business with them!"
Sam Phillips
CEO & Founder | Representnation
"We appointed Green Park based on their reputation for diverse, quality senior appointments in the charity sector – and we were delighted with the process and outcomes of working with them..."
Saleh Saeed
Chief Executive | Disasters Emergency Committee
Working with Green Park on an important strategic hire for our people agenda was seamless. Not only was the process handled with thought, agility and pace, but importantly also found us an incredibly high calibre of candidates which we struggled to pick from. We were impressed with their level of knowledge of this sector and our business, a very nice problem to have. Liz was a great partner to us with constant communication, flagging any risks along the way.
Meg Phelps
Director of Talent EMEA | Edelman
“Paul is a commercial, pragmatic and forward thinking partner that has successfully supported the business over number of years. A superb values led, authentic consultant that I wouldn't hesitate recommending.”
Vishal Thanki
HR Director - Technology & Digital | Kingfisher plc