Move first. Move informed.
The best hiring decisions are made long before a search is opened. Our advisory work gives leadership teams the market intelligence to act with total conviction, before competitors know a move is coming.
Decisions that should never be made blind.
Offers fail when they are built on outdated data. Our benchmarking draws on live mandates and direct market conversations, so you know what the market is actually paying, not what it paid eighteen months ago, and retention risks in your own team surface before a resignation does.
The best hiring decisions are made long before a search opens. Market mapping gives you a live picture of who the exceptional performers are and what it would take to attract them, so when the moment comes you move first, with conviction.
We advise on how a finance function should be shaped for what comes next: reporting lines, seniority mix, build versus buy, and the sequencing of hires. The advice is grounded in what genuinely works at comparable firms, because we see inside them every week.
Four disciplines. One purpose: conviction.
Market mapping & talent intelligence
A systematic picture of the talent landscape for a given function: who holds the key roles, how teams are structured at comparable firms, and where the strongest performers sit. It turns a future hiring decision from guesswork into an informed move, often months before a search opens.
Compensation benchmarking
Reliable, current data on base, bonus and long-term incentives for finance roles across private equity and investment management. We draw on live mandates and direct market conversations rather than stale surveys, so offers land first time and retention risks surface early.
Organisation design
Advice on how a finance function should be shaped for the firm's next phase: reporting lines, seniority mix, where to build versus buy capability, and the sequencing of hires. Grounded in what genuinely works at comparable firms, not in theory.
Succession planning
A clear-eyed view of internal readiness against the external market for business-critical finance roles. We help leadership understand who could step up, on what timeline, and what the market alternative looks like, before the vacancy exists.
“It is the thinking our clients draw on before their competitors know a move is coming, and the reason they move first.”
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- Established 2006
- London · New York · Luxembourg
- Discreet & confidential