Aquista

Aquista specialises in the retail banking, insurance and financial services markets, including their supply chains and works with clients across the UK to ensure that talented and effective leaders are in place who are capable of maximising their organisation’s competitive edge. Our flagship service is search and selection and we fill senior manager, functional head and director level roles, with salaries falling within the £100k to £300k range. We also deliver a range of other services, including identifying, evaluating, developing, motivating and retaining leadership capability within client organisations. Our clients include: • High street, supermarket & online banks • Building societies • Credit card issuers • Personal loan providers • Specialist & adverse mortgage lenders • Fixed income divisions of investment banks • Asset backed investment boutiques & hedge funds • 3rd party servicers • Composite & specialist Insurers • Life & pensions providers • Financial advisers & networks • Price comparison, mortgage sourcing & property locator sites • Corporate estate agencies & surveyors • Conveyancers Functional expertise includes: • Chief Executives, Managing Directors & NEDs • Products & Marketing • Sales & Customer Service • Risk & Regulation • Operations & Change • Finance We really understand the landscape our clients operate in and the key drivers to each functional area. Aside from our ‘whole of market’ search capability, we also have built extensive networks of contacts within each functional area. This all means we can home-in on the best people – not just the usual suspects – and convert them into enthusiastic candidates. Our in-depth assessment capabilities include evidence based interviewing against a client’s own capability model, psychometrics and 540° referencing. All of this results in an extremely high success rate of 98% and clients frequently attest to the positive difference our candidates make to their business.