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Optimal

Financial Recruitment
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What We Do

We are committed to providing both our client companies and potential candidates with the "optimal" recruiting experience.

Our satisfaction comes from enabling businesses to meet their targets—and helping individuals achieve their career goals—through strategic placement of top talent.

Optimal Financial Recruitment is a highly specialized recruitment company for the global Commodities and Capital Markets industries. We’re known for our successful placements in the fields that include Energy, Metals, Equity, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Strategy &  Economics, and Emerging Markets. We’ve also recently expanded our financial placements into Private Banking and Ultra High Net Worth coverage.

Who We Serve

Optimal places successful professionals in exciting growth opportunities with a wide variety of employers, including: 

Investment, Global, Regional, Custodial and Private Banks

Hedge Funds

Asset Management Firms (traditional and alternative)

FinTech companies that enable the Capital Markets industry

Prime Brokerage and Brokers Dealers

Originators and Development Companies

Our satisfied clients include Human Resource professionals, hiring managers, financial markets professionals at some of the largest global financial institutions. 

  • Sensational! … What I like about Optimal is that they don’t deluge me with CVs — they send only the ones that might work! I like this idea a lot.

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    Financial Organization

  • My Account Manager at Optimal is extremely professional and well-prepared. He understands our business objectives and “selling points”, so he represents the Bank with both professionalism and enthusiasm. His working style is very proactive. He responds quickly and sources high caliber candidates. He also has good sector-specific knowledge.

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    Global Head of FX
    Global Commercial Bank

  • Optimal has a deeper footprint in FX than most agencies. Agencies are usually too generic, recruiting across a variety of products and types of people. But my Optimal recruiter is very selective—about the candidates he selects as well as the assignments he accepts. He’s also highly ethical. And he doesn’t lie.

    “
    Vice President of Human Resources
    Global Investment Bank
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Optimal’s global reach, in-depth experience, and methods successfully identifies hard to find talent interested making a difference.

Our Global Reach

​U.S.​

  •  New York​
  •  Boston​
  •  Chicago​
  •  San Francisco​
  •  Charlotte​
  •  Miami 

Europe​

  • London ​
  • Paris​
  •  Zurich​
  • Frankfurt​
  • Luxembourg​

Emerging Markets​

  • Dubai​
  • Sao Paolo​
  • Mexico City​
  • Mumbai
Expertise in Banking, Sales, Trading, Quantitative Roles
Optimal works on a wide variety of roles that range from entry level to experienced, with titles from Analyst to Managing Director.

Sales - Corporate, Institutional and Private Banking/UHNW

Trading

Structuring

Quantitative Analysts (Front Office)

Risk Advisory

Banking – Credit, Debt & Private Equity

Strategists/Economists

Asset/Portfolio Management

M&A

How to Contact Us

Financial Organizations

Financial organizations interested in discussing specific employment needs are can reach us by the following methods:

The Optimal Recruitment Experience

Financial Professionals

Financial markets professionals interested in making a strategic career move should complete the Candidate’s Profile and preferably attach an updated resume/CV or alternatively:

The Optimal Candidate Experience