Michael Williams

Bank ABC

Head of Talent 

BNY Mellon

EMEA Chief Administrative Officer, Technology Services Chief of Staff, Senior Vice President

EMEA Technology Workforce Transformation Lead, Chief of Staff - Poland & CEE, Associate Director

Recruitment Team Leader, Associate Director

HSBC

Senior Recruiter, UK&CI and Zurich

Various Specialist Recruitment Firms

Senior Recruiter (UK & Europe)

Talent Acquisition Lead ✦ RL100 Member ✦ Views are my own

A results-driven HR and Talent Acquisition professional with International experience. I specialise in aligning people strategies with business goals to fuel growth and performance. With extensive experience in global banking, financial services, and technology, I have a deep understanding of the complexities of talent management, workforce planning, and regulatory compliance within the financial sector.

✔ End-to-End Recruitment Expertise: Successfully hired top talent across Front Office, Middle Office, and Corporate Functions within banking, managing searches at all levels up to Managing Director (MD).

✔ Talent Strategy & Workforce Planning

✔ HR Transformation & Change Management

✔ Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) 

✔ Leadership Coaching & Performance Management

✔ HR Analytics & Data-Driven Insights 

✔ Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management

I am passionate about building future-ready workforces, driving innovation in talent acquisition and HR strategy, and fostering environments where people and businesses thrive.

Head of Talent

Recruitment Lead responsible for all lines of business hiring from entry to Board level, covering Corporate Functions through to the FrontI office. 

2021 Achievements:
→ Recruitment Framework & Governance Implementation 
→ IR35 Lead (Successful HMRC Audit)
→ Reduced time to hire to 41 days

2022 Achievements:
→ ATS Implementation 
→ Talent Management Framework Design
→ Gender Diversity recruitment policy implementation 

2023 Achievements (YTD):
→ Direct recruitment model implementation 
→ Direct Recruitment (91% YTD)
→ Internal Mobility (63% increase YTD)
→ Branding

Key Placements:
→ European Chief Risk Officer, London
→ Chief Risk Officer, Paris
→ European Head of Internal Audit
→ UK MLRO / European Head of Financial Crime
→ European Chief Financial Officer
→ Head of Market Risk & Reporting
→ Head of Credit Risk
→ Head of Enterprise Risk Management 
→ Head of Operations 
→ Head of Business Management
→ European Head of Banking
→ European Head of IT
→ Head of Communications - Europe
→ European Head of Treasury & Financial Markets
→ Business Manager to the CEO, IB

Eames Consulting

CREATING OPPORTUNITY. 

Eames Consulting is a contingent recruitment business with international reach, specialising at the mid-to-senior level of the insurance, financial services, and technology markets. 

We are driven by a common purpose: to make opportunity happen. 

We create opportunity for our clients to transform their business. We create opportunity for our candidates to thrive in the right job and culture. And we create opportunities for each other to get the best out of our work and ourselves. 

Our consultants are focused on specialist areas of their dedicated market spanning: actuarial, broking and underwriting, claims and operations, finance and accountancy, risk and compliance, audit, change management and technology.  

Through deep and evolving sector knowledge, we embed ourselves as long-term strategic partners to our clients. Guiding people, shaping talent, building partnerships, and creating success is what we do. 

We are part of the Eames Group- the parent company to our three non-competing businesses, Eames Consulting, Eames Partnership and ECMS. Founded in 2002, we have a global network with specialist consultants across the UK, Europe, Asia and USA.

www.eamesconsulting.com

Principal Consultant

Robert Walters

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Managing Consultant

Senior Consultant

Consultant

Associate Consultant

Robert Walters Project Services recruits for Projects and Programs across IT verticals of Infrastructure, Applications and Digital. Our candidates are practiced specialists within Prince2, PMBOK waterfall frameworks as well as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Scaled agile frameworks.
In addition, we have capability across the non IT elements of business Project and Program delivery.

Transformation capability for resourcing and opportunities:

Portfolio, Program & Project Delivery from Junior to Director level
Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, Iteration Manages & Agile Coaches
Change & Transformation Analysts, Leads and Managers
BI, CRM, Big Data, Analytics specialists
Business Analysts, Technical Writers, Trainers and Process Analysts
Program, Project & PMO Support

We have a unique, personal approach to recruitment - create a value add and a service that will be repeated to the highest standard.

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