The 10 best lending recruiters in Australia in 2026

Platinum People Group recruits for mortgage brokerages and for third-party banking, which means it works both ends of the broker channel: the brokerage hiring a parabroker or a settlements coordinator, and the lender or aggregator hiring the BDM who'll call on that brokerage. Its own LinkedIn company page lists business development managers for both aggregation and lenders among the roles it fills.

That two-sided reach is why it scores level with FinTalent on broker-channel fit. Where it falls back is evidence: its testimonials run from 2018 to 2020, the site footer still reads 2021, and its SEEK profile has had no new reviews in a year. Its claim to have recruited for more than 250 brokerages is its own figure, from a 2022 page.

It's a two-person shop, which is why the founder's name is on this card. Roland Youakim still runs the searches, and Christelle Tribo, who joined in August 2025, recruits brokers, loan processors, BDMs and credit analysts as well as running Roland's diary.

Profusion runs the most complete lending desk of the financial services firms. Its credit and lending page names banks, brokers, private lenders and non-banks as employers, and its roles run from credit analysts and lending specialists to BDMs, relationship managers and lending support. That covers the broker channel from both sides, which is why it ranks third here after placing sixth on the mortgage broking list.

The desk is three people in three cities. Kim Truong, Associate Director, runs it from Melbourne: she joined in 2023 after a run at Hays, and her placements include mortgage brokers, BDMs, credit managers and credit analysts across banks, non-banks and fintech lenders. In Sydney, Courtney Christensen, Senior Consultant, Banking, Lending and Marketing, has spent the past year recruiting BDMs for non-bank and private credit lenders. In Brisbane, Jesse Byrne, a former BOQ lender who joined in 2025, works bank and non-bank lending and credit roles up to head of credit. Pat Hogan, an Associate Director in Sydney since December 2025, covers private debt and structured finance, which is institutional rather than broker channel.

The firm has been on AFR BOSS's Best Places to Work list for three straight years to 2025, but publishes no lending case studies, which holds the evidence score at 5.

Fuse's broking page reaches further into lending titles than most brokerage-side desks. Alongside brokers and senior credit analysts it lists lending specialists, mobile lenders and home loan specialists, titles that usually sit inside lenders, plus loan processing roles down to triage and verification officers. The broking desk is led from Melbourne by Lachie Young, Team Leader, Financial Services. Luke Smith, Recruitment Consultant, is the one Fuse consultant whose profile names mortgage broking as his focus, and David Ayre, Head of Financial Services, runs the Victorian financial services team after twenty years in the market.

Three offices in three states and a temp desk make it the practical choice for several lending support seats across states, or cover while you hire properly. Its page doesn't touch lender-side broker-channel roles, with no BDMs listed and no named lending clients, which is why it trails Profusion on lending focus.

Integrate covers more of the lending ladder than its size suggests. Its published broking role list runs to fifteen titles, from parabroker and loan processor through credit manager, state manager and head of lending, and its broking page names business development managers experienced in driving broker relationships among the people it places. It says it supports mortgage brokerages, financial services businesses and lending organisations.

It's Melbourne-based with landing pages for other capitals but no offices there, and its strong SEEK profile covers every sector it works in, lending among them. It has published two pieces on hiring brokers since late July, which is more current thinking than most firms here show.

The lending team is two consultants under the founder. Linda Le came across from Randstad, Momentum and ANZ and recruits brokers, loan associates and parabrokers across residential and commercial lending. Alma Bardak came from Drake Medox, where she led national recruitment and compliance, and works mortgage broking. Samantha Bainbridge sits over both as financial services director.

Bluefin works the lender's end of the broker channel, and on this list that counts for a lot. Its banking, credit and lending practice recruits state sales managers, and non-bank lending specialists who cover broker channels, the people who sit between a lender and the brokers who write its loans, along with SME and commercial BDMs and credit roles up to head of credit.

Paula Price, who leads the practice, has recruited for 21 years by the firm's account. She is also the only person on Bluefin's 44-strong published team tagged to banking, credit and lending, so the practice is her. It doesn't place brokers into brokerages, which caps its broker-channel fit at 6, but a non-bank hiring for distribution should have it on the shortlist.

Hays has the widest lending bench in the country by a distance. Its banking jobs page splits lending into loan administrators, loan processors, home loan specialists, commercial and business lending officers and settlement officers, with a separate credit list running from pre-credit assessor to underwriter, and it advertises banking roles in ten cities.

Hays Banking in Sydney is run by Zoe Casbolt, Senior Business Manager, who has recruited insurance and lending for nine years and leads a team covering retail and residential lending, asset and equipment finance, business banking and commercial lending. Most of its lending work is bank-side, but it does take brokerage briefs. The ones on its books this month, a mortgage broker with warm leads in the Eastern Suburbs, a loan processor with a path into broking and a collections officer at a non-bank, are run by Jasmine Sowden, an associate consultant who joined in November 2025 from a commercial broking seat at Valiant Finance. Wilson Foo, Business Manager, runs the business, commercial and institutional banking side, where the briefs are relationship managers, BDMs, commercial finance brokers and credit analysts at banks, non-banks and private credit funds. Above both sits William Prest, Associate Director, who manages the Sydney banking division alongside HR, procurement, marketing, insurance and legal. For a lender hiring at volume, or a brokerage in a town no specialist reaches, it's a sensible call.

Randstad's banking page reads most like a lending page of the global firms. It lists mortgage broking and non-bank lending among the areas it recruits, alongside corporate lending, business and commercial banking and asset finance, and it publishes a national general manager, Stephanie Patoka, and a Victorian state manager, Rebecca Lazar, with direct numbers. The desk that touches lending is Jeremy O'Connor's. He leads banking, wealth management and insurance nationally from Sydney and lists home lending in the remit.

Its lending ads lean non-bank. A Double Bay lender in senior home-equity lending advertised a credit analyst at $90,000 to $100,000 and a lending specialist at $80,000 plus commission through Randstad. The brokerage ads show how it works in practice. The credit analyst for a St Leonards boutique brokerage, posted in September, is run by Eileen Leo, a business support recruiter for banking and financial services rather than a lending specialist. Sandra Lavorato, Principal Consultant, Banking, Finance and Insurance, has recruited for the same Double Bay reverse mortgage lender. It lists no BDMs or loan processing on the desk page, which keeps its broker-channel fit at 4.

TOM People's Banking and Lending practice is about three years old and was built by Anita O'Connor, who joined in 2023 to launch it. Its page says the network spans retail, private, business and corporate banking as well as non-bank lenders and mortgage brokers, and it lists mortgage brokers and third-party BDMs among the roles it fills. That's more broker-literate than most banking desks manage.

It places mid-senior roles, and Chris Gatley, Principal Consultant, joined in May 2026 to cover corporate and institutional banking, so the practice is now two people. The limits are reach, with one Sydney office, and evidence: two candidate testimonials and a market update series, the latest from June 2026, but no named clients.

Keegan Adams is a Sydney boutique with a desk actually called Banking and Lending, covering relationship management, credit assessment and loan operations for banks, non-bank lenders and fintechs. Recent ads include a lending specialist for a non-bank in Bondi Junction and a senior residential settlements officer.

It publishes an annual Financial Services Talent and Employment Report and says it has placed more than 11,000 candidates since 2010, across all its practices. The banking and lending work sits with Alice Pipes, an owner and director who joined in 2010, soon after the firm opened, and still recruits permanent roles from entry level to senior management. The lending specialist, loan servicing, commercial credit analyst and associate director of commercial credit briefs on the site are hers. Saffron Stevens, Director of People and Operations, lists banking and lending alongside coaching, and Claire Tate, the managing director, works markets, investment and wealth rather than lending. With no broking page and one Sydney address, it's a sound call for a non-bank's operations or credit seat and a weak one for anything inside a brokerage.