Building a Team for a Boutique Debt Advisory Firm

The Client

Our client is a boutique debt advisory firm with outstanding founder pedigree, working with financial sponsors on complex mid-market transactions. At the time of our engagement, they had a limited market footprint but significant ambition, and needed to build out their team quickly to sustain their growth without diluting their standards.

The Challenge

The firm operates a genuinely client-focused model, which places particular demands on candidates. Deal periods require total focus and commitment, and the environment is fast-paced throughout. Finding people who could thrive in that culture, not just perform technically, was central to the brief.

Our Approach

We deployed a blend of traditional search and modern selection techniques, combining the rigour of executive search with the reach that comes from having a well-connected team. Our consultants carry significant professional networks, including substantial LinkedIn followings, and we used those alongside our database and direct search capability to access the right talent pools.

We focused our screening on candidates from investment banks and debt advisory firms, targeting individuals with directly relevant transaction experience and the commercial maturity the role demanded.

The Outcome

We successfully placed an Associate and a Senior Associate with the firm. Both candidates have developed within their roles, and the client has continued to grow their business, with the team we helped build playing a part in that progress.

Placing a CFO and Head of Treasury at a Growing Specialist Lender

The Client

Our client is a specialist lender with around 50 employees, operating in a highly competitive and complex market. They have ambitious growth plans, but are committed to scaling with the highest standards of governance. Culture is central to how they operate, with a client-first ethos that runs through the business.

The Challenge

The firm needed to make two significant hires in quick succession, first a CFO, and subsequently a Head of Treasury. Both roles required a particular profile: candidates with the experience and credibility that comes from working in larger organisations, but the entrepreneurial mindset to thrive in a growing, dynamic business. That combination is not always easy to find.

Our Approach

Fram Search has deep roots in finance and accounting recruitment. Our founder has a substantial background in this functional space and maintains an active presence within it, which means we bring genuine expertise rather than a generalist perspective when mandates like this come to us.

Drawing on our wider team, our networks, and our structured search process, we were able to identify, attract, and assess strong candidates for both roles. We take a rigorous approach to screening, ensuring that candidates meet not only the technical requirements of a position, but the cultural expectations of the client as well.

The Outcome

We successfully placed strong candidates into both the CFO and Head of Treasury roles. The client has continued to grow since those appointments, and both hires have proven to be key to that progress. The assignments are a further demonstration of our ability to deliver at senior level for specialist financial services clients.

We used Fram Search to help us find a key and strategically important role as we looked to develop our institutional offering. Fram presented us with some outstanding candidates, one of which we hired.

Chloe and her team were professional and fully understood the brief we gave them. Most importantly our new hire has proved to be a great success

Head of Institutional Distribution, leading investment manager