Working with Financial Services Organisations
- A specialist service from Russam GMS

Russam GMS has been successfully introducing Interim Managers to Financial Services businesses since our founding twenty five years ago.

With growing commercial and competitive pressures and the need to respond very quickly to changing business challenges, Interim Management continues to make increasingly important contributions into the resourcing processes in financial services companies, where immediacy and excellence of fit is key.

On offer are senior and experienced business executives with the right professional disciplines and sector backgrounds. Importantly, they will have a range of understandings and experience of how financial services organisations work, the importance of interpersonal abilities and the instinct to stay above internal politics.

These are some of the clients we work with:

· Abbey
· AON
· Co-operative Bank
· CPP Card Protection Plan
· Equifax
· Graphite Capital
· Henderson Global Investors
· HBoS
· Lloyds TSB
· Paypoint Network
· Pearl Group
· Permira
· Rothschild Investment Bank
· Terra Firma
· Zurich

Additionally, the Interim Managers with whom we work have substantial management and practical experience across many other financial services businesses and their ever-changing needs.

Meeting your Needs:

With six offices in the UK, we have national coverage. Our sector-leading database and ability to search more widely allows us to source the right interim executive from anywhere in the UK. We submit our shortlists within five working days. All the assignments we undertake are handled jointly by our Head of Practice and an experienced Russam GMS Consultant. This ensures that we deliver what has been agreed, at the right price and within the agreed timescale.

These are some of the assignments we have handled (ranging from 3 months to Permanent assignments):

· Business Process Re-engineering
· Chief Actuary
· Chief Executive
· Commercial Director
· Compliance (Basel II)
· Credit Risk Assessor
· Direct marketing
· Divisional Finance Director
· Finance Director
· HR Director/ Manager
· Operations Director
· Project manager (IT and Other)
· Programme Manager
· Redundancy Services Manager
· Resourcing Manager
· Risk Management
· Sales and Marketing strategy development.
· Sales Director
· Strategic and Business Planning
· Tax Expert

Why choose Russam GMS?

· We understand the Financial Services Sector and the need to deliver quality services.
· We can find professionals with the right skills and backgrounds who can integrate and operate successfully.
· We find people with the right balance of leadership and managerial skills, technical know-how, and interpersonal skills.
· We visit you to ensure that we fully understand your needs.
· We keep in touch throughout an assignment.
· Our Terms of Business are flexible to meet particular needs.
· We deliver faster.
· Our prices are highly competitive.

Please contact Jason Atkinson, Executive Director, to discuss, without any obligation, current issues or challenges where Interim Management might be helpful on 0845 658 1717 or jason.atkinson@russam-gms.co.uk