Financial Services Search

The search firm that knows what a financial services hire actually does.

Pivot Search has a long-standing fintech practice placing technical, commercial, and finance talent across the region's most demanding financial services firms: from crypto exchanges and digital banks to quant trading desks, payments infrastructure, and RegTech.

Where we place

The Financial Services landscape we operate across.

Crypto & Digital Assets

Exchanges, custody platforms, and on-chain infrastructure firms hiring to meet regulatory and scaling demands. Legal and compliance are the most urgent hires in this space right now.

General CounselChief Compliance OfficerHead of Regulatory AffairsVP Listings & Market Development

Payments & Money Movement

Regional payment platforms, cross-border remittance networks, and card infrastructure hiring for compliance, scheme relations, and commercial growth.

Head of ComplianceChief Risk OfficerHead of Scheme RelationsVP Partnerships & Commercial

Online Brokerage

Retail and professional brokerage platforms building out capital markets capability, compliance infrastructure, and operations as they expand across APAC jurisdictions.

Chief Capital Markets OfficerHead of Derivatives & Structured ProductsCompliance ManagerFund Operations Lead

Neobanks

Licensed neobanks and challenger banks scaling from launch to profitability. Regulatory credibility is the competitive moat — and the talent around it is the hire that matters.

Chief Compliance OfficerGeneral CounselHead of TreasuryChief Risk Officer

Quant & Systematic Trading

Proprietary trading firms, systematic hedge funds, and family offices building quantitative capability and the operations infrastructure to support it.

Head of TradingFund Operations ManagerChief Risk OfficerHead of Investor Relations
Roles we place

The Financial Services roles
we run across APAC.

Examples of roles that reflect the range of talent we place in financial services — across Finance, Product, and Compliance.

RoleWhat it signalsWhere we place them
Finance

Treasury Lead

A fintech or digital bank reaching the scale where cash management, FX exposure, and liquidity strategy require dedicated leadership. This hire signals institutional maturity and readiness for the next funding or licensing milestone.

Digital banks and e-money institutions · Series C+ payments platforms · Cross-border remittance scaleups · Regulated fintechs preparing for MAS or equivalent licensing

Finance

Finance Business Partner

A scaling fintech that needs finance embedded in the business — not just reporting. This role signals a transition from startup to operational rigour, where commercial decisions need financial discipline behind them.

Growth-stage fintechs Series B and above · Regional headquarters of global financial services firms · Digital lending and insurance platforms expanding across APAC

Product

Data Product Manager

A fintech treating data as a product in its own right — not just a by-product of the core platform. This hire tells us the business is building data infrastructure to serve internal teams, partners, or external customers at scale.

Data-led fintechs and wealthtech platforms · Capital-markets infrastructure firms · Digital banks with open banking or API product ambitions

Compliance

Chief Compliance Officer

A firm where compliance is now a strategic function — not a checkbox. This hire often precedes or accompanies a licensing application, a major institutional client, or an expansion into a new regulatory environment.

Digital banks under MAS · Crypto exchanges pursuing licensing under MiCA, VARA, or SFC · Payments firms entering Australia, Japan, or Hong Kong · Regulated fintechs with institutional counterparties

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Treasury Lead

what it signals

A fintech or digital bank reaching the scale where cash management, FX exposure, and liquidity strategy require dedicated leadership. This hire signals institutional maturity and readiness for the next funding or licensing milestone.

Where we place them

Digital banks and e-money institutions · Series C+ payments platforms · Cross-border remittance scaleups · Regulated fintechs preparing for MAS or equivalent licensing

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Finance Business Partner

what it signals

A scaling fintech that needs finance embedded in the business — not just reporting. This role signals a transition from startup to operational rigour, where commercial decisions need financial discipline behind them.

Where we place them

Growth-stage fintechs Series B and above · Regional headquarters of global financial services firms · Digital lending and insurance platforms expanding across APAC

Productrole

Data Product Manager

what it signals

A fintech treating data as a product in its own right — not just a by-product of the core platform. This hire tells us the business is building data infrastructure to serve internal teams, partners, or external customers at scale.

Where we place them

Data-led fintechs and wealthtech platforms · Capital-markets infrastructure firms · Digital banks with open banking or API product ambitions

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Chief Compliance Officer

what it signals

A firm where compliance is now a strategic function — not a checkbox. This hire often precedes or accompanies a licensing application, a major institutional client, or an expansion into a new regulatory environment.

Where we place them

Digital banks under MAS · Crypto exchanges pursuing licensing under MiCA, VARA, or SFC · Payments firms entering Australia, Japan, or Hong Kong · Regulated fintechs with institutional counterparties

PE & VC FUNDS

The Financial Services landscape we operate across.

PE and VC firms across APAC bring Pivot in when a portfolio company needs to hire. We act as the fund's trusted search partner — moving at the pace the investment timeline demands, and holding the hiring bar the fund expects.

Financial Services recruitment for PE & VC Funds

Speed that matches the investment cycle

Post-close, portfolio companies need to move fast. We run tight, high-quality searches — not slow, broad ones.

Wired into the AI industry

Tentacles deep in APAC AI. The network we recruit from spans Product & Engineering, Go-to-Market, and Market Mapping — so we already know who's good before the search starts.

Model-fitted talent, not just available talent

We scope every brief directly with fund and company leadership. Shortlists reflect the standard the fund expects — not just what's available.

100% retention on placed candidates

Our track record holds across every placement. We don't fill seats — we find the right person for the stage and culture of the company.
Talk to us about your portfolio →
Start a search

Tell us the brief. We'll tell you what the hire is worth.

What the Fintech talent market looks like in your segment, what a strong shortlist should contain, and whether we've placed someone in this seat before.

Book a scoping call →
PE & VC FUNDS

The Financial Services landscape we operate across.

PE and VC firms across APAC bring Pivot in when a portfolio company needs to hire. We act as the fund's trusted search partner — moving at the pace the investment timeline demands, and holding the hiring bar the fund expects.

Financial Services Recruitment for PE and VC funds

Speed that matches the investment cycle

Post-close, portfolio companies need to move fast. We run tight, high-quality searches — not slow, broad ones.

Wired into the AI industry

Tentacles deep in APAC AI. The network we recruit from spans Product & Engineering, Go-to-Market, and Market Mapping — so we already know who's good before the search starts.

Model-fitted talent, not just available talent

We scope every brief directly with fund and company leadership. Shortlists reflect the standard the fund expects — not just what's available.

100% retention on placed candidates

Our track record holds across every placement. We don't fill seats — we find the right person for the stage and culture of the company.

Talk to us about your portfolio →
Start a search

Tell us the brief. We'll tell you what the hire is worth.

What the Fintech talent market looks like in your segment, what a strong shortlist should contain, and whether we've placed someone in this seat before.

Book a scoping call →