Search and Selection Expertise for the Financial Services Industry
Driven by Partnership
Emerald Group is a specialist search firm that recruits the best candidates into the finest opportunities in today’s insurance markets.
We offer retained and contingency recruitment services for the financial services and actuarial markets, customising our service to meet the needs of every individual client.
Global Team, Personal Impact
Established over 25 years ago, we have earned our place as leading national and international experts in our field by adding real value to our clients.
Our global team bring local experience and a national and international perspective to every placement we make. Our knowledge and professional insights mean we match candidates to roles where they thrive, building and strengthening internal client teams that drive operational success.
With offices in the UK, Germany and Switzerland, we successfully recruit nationally and internationally, with clients and candidates in every major financial market.
Whether you’re a client looking for the highest quality applicants for your team or a candidate looking to further your career, Emerald Group is your recruitment partner of choice.
Our Specialisms include:
• Life Actuarial
• Non-life Actuarial
• Pensions Actuarial
• IT & Fintech
• Investment
• Risk & Compliance
• Audit and Accountancy
• CAT Modelling
• Underwriting
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A Refreshing and Professional Approach to Your Recruitment
At Emerald Group, we offer a fresh take on recruitment. We combine partnership, sector-based strategic guidance and sourcing expertise to provide a valued and trusted service to everyone we work with.
From your first interaction with an Emerald Group consultant, you’ll see how we stand apart from our competitors. Our professional and experienced team have exceptional market experience and sector knowledge that allows them to combine recruitment expertise with consultancy level support.
We give every client market leading guidance on their recruitment approach.
We offer every candidate essential insights to support their individual career progression.
In a competitive market, this can mean the difference between a successful placement and a long job search. Our approach means that we deliver what we promise.
When you work with Emerald Group, you’ll experience the highest professional standards with clear, honest communication from an approachable and supportive team.
DEI Matters
We share your commitment to diversity and inclusion.
We ensure that all our recruitment processes deliver best practice in DEI, supporting your policies and procedures and applying the principles that we follow ourselves, as demonstrated by the ethnic and gender diversity of our own team.
We can advise you on approaches that support your DEI goals, including anonymised and gender-neutral CV review processes, hybrid, flexible working or core hours policies, and return to work guidelines.
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“A cut above the rest”
Our Specialisms
Emerald Group provides a professional actuarial and specialist selection service that connects industry-leading candidates with global businesses operating at the top of their sector.
Our market connections ensure we have the latest market mapping, business intelligence and salary information. Our experienced recruiters use this knowledge to anticipate future market developments, including salary, package and benefit trends.
We offer retained and contingency search across the following specialist areas:
Actuarial
We recruit for Life Actuarial and Non-life Actuarial roles for clients including Lloyds market, insurers and reinsurers, broking houses (including specialist brokers), banks, asset managers and consultancy. Our candidates include a broad talent pool of actuaries, ranging from C-suite and partner level to qualified or part qualified, students or interim candidates.
Life Actuarial
We source candidates for an extensive range of Life opportunities, placing for clients in the UK and internationally across the (Re)Insurance and Consulting markets. We find candidates with the skills our clients need, spanning financial reporting, modelling, risk management, investment expertise, pricing & product development and launch, fund monitoring and regulatory reporting/change.
General Insurance
Covering the Lloyds/London Market, Personal and Commercial insurance lines, reinsurance and consulting, we recruit actuaries for the entire general insurance market. We successfully fill vacancies in reserving, pricing and capital modelling. We match candidates with the right statistical skills, claims assessment and premium estimation expertise or solvency and capital needs assessment experience to roles where they will add technical and practical value to their new employer.
Pensions
We source candidates for roles across the specialist pensions actuarial market, from pension scheme advisors to funding and investment strategists, pension scheme designers, risk mitigation and corporate transaction experts. We find individuals with the right skill set, including legislation and regulation knowledge and technical expertise, to support the needs of their trustees and members as well as their company requirements.
IT & Fintech
We provide industry leading IT and Fintech professionals to insurance companies, ambitious start-ups, IT companies and consultancies.
Investment
We work with prestigious asset management and investment businesses, hedge funds and investment banks to provide analysts, C-suite and technical experts in areas ranging from product development, structuring, trading, marketing and sales on a global basis.
Our Extensive Candidate Pool
With a candidate pool that ranges from C-suite and highly experienced senior individuals to newly or part-qualified actuaries and other financial services specialists, we cover the entire recruitment spectrum.
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Risk & Compliance
We match financial organisations with leading risk management experts to support regulatory requirements, market, credit, legislative and operational risk. We support permanent, fixed term and interim solutions.
Audit and Accountancy
We work across the auditing and accountancy sector, including financial and management accounting, regulatory reporting, technical accounting and strategic finance.
CAT Modelling
We provide a Catastrophe Modelling recruitment service, with roles ranging from heads of modelling to senior analysts and graduate trainees.
Underwriting & Claims
With extensive experience in underwriting, claims and broking, we source candidates across all levels and our network knowledge can support building full teams across life and general insurance.
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“Constant support and dedication”
“Exceptionally professional and knowledgeable”
A Perfect Partnership
At Emerald Group, we work hard to create genuine partnerships with our clients and candidates.
Knowing our Clients Goals
We get results for our clients by understanding what you need to achieve and partnering with you to make it happen. We listen to your goals. We learn about your business needs and processes. We work with you to define your specific requirements.
With our market knowledge and industry experience, we ask the right questions so that we can filter our extensive network of candidates to provide you with a smooth, efficient and quality-led recruitment process that gets the results you need.
Our clients continually return to us, knowing that we present them with candidates that will fit their team, ways of working and company culture – not just meet the words in a job description.
Guiding our Candidates’ Careers
We get to know you and your professional goals, which allows us to support you as your career progresses, looking ahead for clients who we know will be an excellent match for your ambitions. Choosing a new role takes time: we work closely with our candidates to answer questions, helping you get to know your potential new employer and to choose a role that suits your skills, values and financial goals.
We create – and keep - strong relationships with our candidates, who often return to us again and again throughout their career.
Interested in International?
Our international footprint makes us the best choice for candidates looking to relocate abroad, or clients wanting to benefit from our international pool of candidates.
From a client perspective, international placements can bring industryleading candidates into their teams, solving vacancy issues and adding knowledge and international experience at a competitive price.
We guide candidates carefully through international opportunities, sharing market knowledge and essential details to support decision making, from local tax or legal requirements to education options and lifestyle queries.
Our partnership approach ensures everyone involved is fully informed as they make their decision.
Interim Actuarial Solutions
We operate an interim placement service, providing flexible solutions for clients who need resource-efficient technical solutions and project support from qualified and part-qualified actuaries.
An essential resource for companies with fluctuating needs, our interim candidates bring high standards of professional expertise, capabilities and project management skills to interim opportunities.
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Powered by Our People
As a long-established recruitment consultancy, we provide an ideal working environment for our own team to excel, professionally and personally.
Led by a market-leading group of experienced directors, our consultants are supported with training, peer mentoring and skills development, as they build connections with client leaders and candidates, guided by the professional values of our business. Our low staff turnover rate is a great reflection of our stable and committed workforce.
We invest time in our networks and contacts, whether actively job seeking or recruiting, so that when you’re ready to engage with us on a new role, we can immediately provide the support you need.
Whether you’re a client or a candidate, you’ll work with a dedicated consultant who will partner with you to meet your recruitment goals. Each member of our team also has access to market-leading technologies and we actively support each other in the best interests of our clients, candidates and our team. Our happy and engaged team makes extraordinary things happen.
Our Values in Action
As market leading recruitment experts, our employees and the high-quality service that they deliver are at the centre of our success. Our values influence and guide every aspect of our work, whether we’re delivering our work with integrity and professionalism, treating our colleagues with respect or building relationships with our clients and candidates.
The Emerald Group team is proud to support each other as a community, personally and professionally.
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Inclusivity | Professionalism Integrity | Relationships | Community
Emerald
Group Providing Specialist Search and Selection Expertise for the Financial Services Industry
Our global actuarial service covers placements in the UK, Europe, Bermuda, US, Asia and Australasia.
To find out how Emerald Group can support your recruitment goals, please get in touch at one of our offices below, call us on +44 (0)207 283 2520 or email info@emerald-group.com
London 33 Queen St London EC4R 1BR +44 (0)207 283 2520 Basingstoke Unit 8, Prisma Park Berrington Way Basingstoke Hampshire RG24 8GT +44 (0)207 283 2520 Zurich Lowenstrasse 32 8001 Zurich +41 445 002 335 Frankfurt Barckhausstrasse 1 60325 Frankfurt +49 (0) 69 247 568 9433 Head Office 10 Hobart Street Plymouth PL1 3DG +44 (0)207 283 2520
