Spire Search

Spire Search Partners is a specialist executive search and recruitment firm launched in 2007 by a team of tenured search consultants with deep financial industry expertise spanning capital markets, data analytics, and fintech. The firm operates as a collection of specialist teams aligned to risk, data, finance, strategy and consulting, and operations, all focused on delivering the highest level of service to capital markets, private equity, consulting, and fintech organisations. Over its 18-year history, Spire Search Partners has placed hundreds of specialised and high-value professionals in leadership roles with leading banks, asset managers, consultancies, and fintech firms, building a reputation for excellence in executive placement and candidate experience.

Spire Search Partners specialises in recruiting for private equity and alternative asset management, accounting and finance, portfolio and investment operations, risk and quantitative roles, and investor relations and capital formation. The firm's core competencies include CFO and controller placements, portfolio analytics and FP&A leadership, value creation and integration specialists, operational and investment risk executives, and business development and capital raising professionals. Their data and research-driven search process is enabled by extensive market mapping of teams under the CFO and CRO functions at major asset managers, combined with a broad network of relationships spanning top-to-bottom functions across strategy and portfolio operations.

Spire Search Partners operates primarily from New York, serving clients across the United States with particular strength in major financial centres including Charlotte, Colorado, California, and Texas. The firm distinguishes itself through its commitment to excellence, track record of repeat clients, and ability to deliver hard-to-fill executive mandates with precision and pace. Their approach combines structured, insight-led search delivery with sector expertise and data-driven market intelligence, ensuring clients secure not just available talent but the right leadership fit for driving value creation and scalable growth.