Adam Appointments

Adam Appointments recruits exclusively for corporate governance roles and describes itself as a recruitment and talent advisory team. From its Edinburgh base it combines local knowledge with national reach, applying the care of executive search while working on a contingent basis.

What Adam Appointments offers

• Governance and risk management: hires across operational, technology, credit, market, enterprise and third-party risk, plus company secretarial posts.
• Regulatory compliance: policy, monitoring, horizon scanning and regulator liaison roles.
• Fraud and financial crime: specialists in money laundering prevention, sanctions screening, bribery controls and fraud.
• Data and analytics: hires who analyse risk information, from analysts to team heads.
• IT risk, security and resilience: information security and technology risk hires.
• Internal audit and controls: audit and control staff at all levels.

Who it works with

The firm fills permanent and fixed-term roles from analyst up to director level in financial services, professional services, energy, and food and drink. It is building a track record with smaller, fast-growing fintech and financial services firms.

Key facts

• Based in: Edinburgh
• Founded: 2003
• Working basis: contingent, with exclusive arrangements preferred for senior roles
• Membership: Recruitment and Employment Confederation
• Research: has run a survey of over 200 risk practitioners on what makes a successful risk leader