A boutique recruitment consultancy exclusively focused on buy-side compliance. Connecting London's leading asset managers, hedge funds and investment firms with exceptional compliance talent — founder-led, every time.
Compass Talent Partners was built on a simple conviction: compliance hiring deserves better. Not a generalist agency with a compliance desk. A founder-led practice where every search receives the same senior attention, the same market knowledge, and the same commitment to getting it right.
We'd rather place one right person than three wrong ones. That's not a tagline — it's how we operate.
We operate exclusively in buy-side compliance. No generalist noise, no conflicting briefs — your search gets our complete, undivided attention.
James Gloster-Burke leads every search personally. You will never be handed to a junior consultant once the brief is taken.
The buy-side compliance community is small. Our reputation travels with every placement — which is why we only make the right ones.
From contingency search to retained mandates — with the depth of market knowledge that only a true specialist can bring to your hiring.
No placement, no fee. We work on your brief in parallel, accessing passive candidates your internal teams and other agencies won't reach.
For senior or highly specialised mandates. A dedicated, structured search with regular progress updates and a guaranteed shortlist timeline.
Direct access to our passive candidate network — senior compliance professionals not visible on job boards, introduced exclusively to you.
Salary benchmarking, competitor movement and live market conditions from a consultant who operates inside buy-side compliance every day.
Rapid deployment for regulatory projects, parental cover, or surge requirements — experienced compliance professionals mobilised at pace.
Role scoping, job description review and hiring strategy — guidance from someone who understands what great compliance talent actually looks like.
We start with a proper conversation — not a form. Understanding the role, the team, the culture and what 'right' genuinely looks like for your firm. This is where most agencies fail. It's where we begin.
Before a job board is touched, we work our network — 11,000+ professionals, deep compliance relationships, and a passive candidate pool built over a decade. The best people rarely apply.
You receive only candidates who have been personally spoken to, screened against your brief, and assessed for both technical and cultural fit. No padding. No time-wasting.
We coordinate, prepare and debrief throughout the process. Candidate management is handled properly — no drop-outs, no surprises at the eleventh hour.
We manage the offer, navigate the counter-offer conversation and stay close through start date and beyond. A placement that lasts is the only placement worth making.
A decade-plus of specialist financial services recruitment, operating inside some of the world's most demanding hiring environments before founding Compass with one clear purpose — to give buy-side compliance the quality of search it rarely receives.
Whether you have an active mandate or simply want to understand the market, we're always happy to have a conversation. No obligation, no hard sell — just straight talk from someone who knows the space.
Based in London · Buy-Side Compliance · Founder-Led