Wealth Management Recruiters

Our Approach to Wealth Management Executive Recruitment

At Keller, our collaborative approach to recruitment begins with fully understanding your business’s unique challenges and requirements. This allows us to provide valuable and continuous support throughout the recruiting and hiring process.

Our wealth management advisors work with clients to find the ideal candidate based on their specific needs and goals. This plays a vital role in the future success of each organization, single or multi-family office, or registered investment advisory (RIA) firm we serve. We then begin market mapping and creating a talent profile based on our discussions.

Our executive search efforts are not limited to making job posts and sourcing candidates using traditional methods. We also leverage our network and utilize other tools such as direct outreach, industry-specific databases, and innovative AI-driven recruitment technologies to identify passive candidates who may not be actively seeking new opportunities but possess the exact skills and leadership qualities your organization needs.

Every potential hire undergoes a comprehensive review process, which includes background and criminal checks, reference checks, and advanced psychometric testing, to measure their degree of competency and cultural fit for the position.

The qualifying applicants are then added to a shortlist that we present to our client for final interviews. Our services also extend beyond placement. We assist clients in onboarding their new hires to help ensure a seamless integration.

Behind Our Recruitment Process

When our organization started, we filled senior positions through general recruitment. We hired people, but this strategy ignored important variables such as cultural fit, management style, work ethic, personality, and team chemistry. This resulted in a situation in which some of the placements did not meet the client’s expectations or fit in well at the workplace.

Due to these shortcomings, we developed a more targeted recruitment strategy. Our headhunting team created a process that considers industry-specific characteristics and our client’s goals and challenges. This technique has aided our performance by allowing us to continually locate and place great professionals in critical jobs. Our commitment to improving our recruiting system also helped us establish a long-standing reputation for quality and reliability.

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Some Areas We Specialize In

Keller’s recruiters are highly qualified, which helps distinguish us from other wealth management recruiting firms. These credentials include certifications in recruitment and finance, such as Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Chartered Wealth Manager (CWM).

Furthermore, our recruiters have diverse academic backgrounds, including Finance, Economics, and Business Administration, which gives us a solid theoretical foundation to enhance our hands-on expertise in talent acquisition for wealth management.

With this mix of qualifications, academic understanding, and industry experience, we can provide specialized personnel solutions to many clients, from medium-sized firms to multinational organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the wealth management market.

Keller specializes in finding top-tier talent for a variety of wealth management jobs. For example, we generally find placements for:

• Accounting Firms
• Asset Management
• Banking and Financial Services
• Brokerage Firms
• Single and Multi-Family Offices
• Financial Institutions
• Insurance
• Law Firms
• Private Banks
• Private Equity Firms
• Private Wealth Management Firms
• Real Estate Investments
• Sports and Entertainment
• Technology Startups
• Trust Companies

Examples of Roles We Recruit For in Wealth Management and Personalized Financial Planning

The private wealth management sector is continuously evolving, with client expectations rising, regulations tightening, and new asset classes reshaping the field. As such, filling talent gaps in the industry demands more than simply matching candidates with excellent résumés to open job positions. It requires the help of wealth management recruiters with deep industry knowledge, an extensive network, and the confidence to engage senior leaders and the most qualified candidates who are already succeeding elsewhere in the sector.

Our executive search firm covers wealth management roles at every stage – from early-career analysts who master cash-flow modeling to C-suite leaders who can steer billion-dollar portfolios and boost client satisfaction. We draw on our decades of combined experience in wealth management recruiting and tailor our search process to meet the unique culture, strategic goals, and risk appetite of your company.

What sets Keller’s services apart is our unmatched expertise, knowledge of emerging trends, and access to a vast network of exceptional talents – from visionary wealth advisors and private client investment managers to architects of cross-border corporate tax and multi-asset portfolio management. Each step of our recruitment process also probes a candidate’s technical mastery, leadership style, and career trajectory, then aligns those findings with your firm’s unique culture and strategic goals to find top-tier talent and ensure successful placements.

Why Choose Keller as your Wealth Management Executive Search Partner?

One of the qualities that sets Keller apart from other recruitment firms is our unwavering commitment to providing exemplary service. We place great importance on the satisfaction of our clients and waste no resources in ensuring they are satisfied.

Working with Keller also provides you with access to a team of skilled recruiters who are knowledgeable about wealth management. Our professionals work closely with customers to uncover people who have the necessary abilities, fit culturally into leadership roles, and make dramatic changes.

As a top headhunting agency, we value open communication, so we keep clients informed and communicate continuously throughout the recruitment process. This allows clients to express complaints or feedback, which we can address proactively before they escalate and affect search results.

Beyond our recruitment processes, Keller is a trusted partner who will advocate for your business and position it as a market leader. Our recruitment process is fair and respectful, and we adhere to ethical standards. We also significantly invest in continual education to stay current on industry trends and advances. We regularly attend conferences and workshops to ensure we remain leaders in the recruitment industry.

At Keller, we aim to create and maintain strong relationships with our clients, providing continuous support even after the executive search engagement has concluded. This dedication to putting the right leaders in the right positions contributes to long-term partnerships with our clients.

Our Promise – The Right Hire

Leveraging our access to one of the largest databases of prospective employees, the Keller team dedicates itself to finding the perfect match for your business. We also commit ourselves to conducting each search with the utmost professionalism, discretion, and respect for the privacy and safety of our clients.

As such, we will do our utmost to protect sensitive and potentially damaging information about you and your firm both before and after the recruitment process. We have rigorous data security and privacy standards in place to ensure the secure keeping of information and limited access.

Because we are committed to finding the ideal candidate for your firm, we provide a 210-day replacement program. This means we will replace any executive who can no longer perform their duties or leaves within the first seven months at no additional expense to you.

At Keller, our team of experts is committed to fulfilling and exceeding your executive search and recruitment needs.

Let us help you find the perfect person to fill your available wealth management position. Reach out to Keller today and speak to one of our consultants.