Sales Recruitment for FinTech & Financial Services
Retained search for senior FinTech and financial services commercial leaders. Engagements typically include a regulator-friendly profile design step before approach.
Financial services is the second-largest professional sector in the North of England and one of the fastest-growing FinTech regions in the UK. Leeds is the second-largest financial centre in the country by employment, anchored by First Direct (HSBC), Yorkshire Building Society, Lowell, Provident Financial and a deep wider mutual and challenger-bank base. Manchester adds a heavy FinTech and payments cluster, and York anchors the insurance market via Aviva and Hiscox.
FinTech commercial hiring blends regulated-sector experience, deep enterprise sales cycles and increasingly product-led GTM. Evara's partners have placed across challenger banks, payments, lending, wealth-tech and insurance. We understand the specific compliance, risk-and-controls, and regulator-friendly hiring profile required for senior FinTech commercial seats.
FinTech commercial salaries in the North run close to or above mainstream SaaS for equivalent seats. A FinTech CCO in Leeds or Manchester typically earns £130k-£190k base with OTE of £200k-£320k plus equity. Insurance commercial salaries in York and Leeds run slightly below FinTech for equivalent seniority.
How we work
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We start with a structured kick-off that captures the commercial objective, not just the title. Reporting line, comp envelope, the deal sizes the person will sell, the buyers they will sell to, and the behaviours that will succeed in your environment.
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We map where the right people actually sit, across direct competitors, adjacent industries and proven environments in your region. This becomes the long-list of candidates we approach, not just whoever is on the job boards this week.
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Candidates are approached with a clear commercial narrative, not a job advert. We communicate the opportunity, the leadership environment, the expectations and the growth path, so only genuinely relevant people move forward.
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Two structured commercial screens before a candidate ever reaches you. Track record validation, deal-stage probing, motivation, and a credibility check on the numbers they have actually delivered.
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You receive a considered shortlist, not a CV flood. Each candidate is presented with strengths, potential risks and a fit assessment. We then support the process through to offer, acceptance and the first 90 days.
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FAQs
Yes. Our partners have placed senior commercial leaders into FCA-regulated FinTech, payments, lending and wealth-tech businesses. Regulator-friendly hiring profiles are a standard part of our brief design.
Leeds is the largest single FinTech commercial market in the North, followed by Manchester. York is the natural home for senior insurance commercial talent.
A typical retained search runs 6 to 10 weeks from kick-off to offer accepted. Director-level searches sit at the longer end of that range. We will not rush a shortlist to hit an arbitrary deadline.
No. Every Evara search is retained on a two-payment structure: a commitment deposit paid up front to cover the strategic work, and a completion fee invoiced on day 60 of the placed candidate's employment. This protects the rigour of the process and means we are accountable for the outcome, not for activity.
Email Rachel Lunn and the team. We will reply within one working day with a sector-specific market read for the role you have in mind.
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Sales recruitment, GTM recruitment and revenue advisory for SMEs UK-wide. We reply within one working day.
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