The Emerald Recruiting Group

The Emerald Recruiting Group is a financial markets search firm established in 2019, specialising in permanent and consulting placements across the financial services sector. Founded by Chris Sullivan, who followed his father's footsteps in financial services recruiting, the firm combines modern search technology with old-school accountability. The Emerald Recruiting Group has achieved an 85% placement retention rate since inception and brings over 50 years of combined desk and search experience to every mandate, ensuring that recruiters remember what was agreed on the last call and deliver judgment, urgency, and genuine market feedback.

The firm recruits across six core specialisations within financial markets. Trading and investment covers portfolio management, trading, quantitative and fundamental research, structuring, origination, and business development. Risk and control encompasses market, credit, counterparty and operational risk, product control, treasury, collateral, and liquidity management. Operations includes trade support, settlements, reconciliations, corporate actions, onboarding, fund accounting, and reporting. Data and analytics focuses on financial data, analytics, automation, AI integration, and teams turning information into decisions. Technology specialises in trading and risk platforms, business technology, transformation, process engineering, and PMO leadership. The firm also places consulting talent for defined mandates, transformation programmes, coverage gaps, and urgent delivery.

The Emerald Recruiting Group operates from Jersey City, New Jersey and Northwest Arkansas, serving financial services firms across the United States. The firm differentiates itself through a rigorous search process that moves beyond job descriptions to understand outcomes, team dynamics, and what will make hires stay. Every search has an owner, a point of view, and honest market calibration. The company manages the entire lifecycle from mandate definition through market mapping, contextual presentation, and close ownership, including feedback, offers, transitions, and post-placement support. Senior recruiters provide direct access, and the firm treats candidates as search partners rather than résumé forwarding services, preparing them thoroughly for opportunities and providing feedback throughout the decision-making process.