RedLine Associates

RedLine Associates is a full-service recruiting firm headquartered in Chicago, providing direct hire solutions, contract employment services, and recruiting support to employers on a national basis. The company works with both job seekers and employers, offering candidates confidentiality, exposure to the private job market, interview coaching, and offer negotiation support, whilst delivering innovative and results-driven solutions tailored to each client's staffing needs. RedLine's team of founders and associates bring deep expertise in finance and accounting, enabling the firm to understand complex talent requirements across multiple sectors.

RedLine specialises in recruitment across investment management, financial technology, banking, advisory consulting, corporate accounting and finance, and brokerage and trading. In investment management, the firm identifies experts in trading platform implementations and application development. Within financial technology, RedLine recruits business analysts with expertise in industry accounting, information security, compliance, and trading technologies including CRD, Aladdin, Bloomberg, and Tableau. The company sources talent across commercial and investment banking sectors, drawing on a 20-year network of top-tier analysts from proven rotational programmes. RedLine also staffs consulting firms with managers, researchers, quantitative analysts, and data scientists, whilst recruiting corporate accountants, controllers, partnership accountants, CPA professionals, and CFOs for private equity holdings. In brokerage and trading, the firm specialises in searches for proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, and custody fund administrators, recruiting algorithmic traders and back-office personnel with expertise in derivatives and equities.

With its central office in Evanston, Illinois, RedLine services companies across the United States. The firm's proximity to Chicago's world-class financial infrastructure, including the CME, CBOE, ICE, and NYSE, provides unique access to specialised talent pools. Clients choose RedLine for its proven ability to staff quickly for new projects and deliverables, its deep industry networks, and its understanding of both emerging technologies and traditional financial services talent requirements.