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The 7 best mortgage broking recruiters in Perth in 2026

None of the recruiters we found with a mortgage broking desk has a Perth office. The firms with Perth addresses recruit for banks, and the firms that recruit for brokerages run Western Australian searches from the east coast. Seven are ranked below on criteria anyone can check, and FinTalent, which publishes this page and runs its Perth searches from Melbourne, ranks first.

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The best mortgage broking recruiter for a Perth brokerage is FinTalent, a broking-only firm that has placed roles in every state, ahead of Integrate Recruitment and Profusion Group, neither of which has a Perth office either. If you need someone on the ground, Hays and Randstad have Perth offices with banking coverage and suit support hiring, and Robert Walters and Michael Page have Perth offices for bank and lender roles.

Broking desks that cover Perth from the east

Two firms whose desks are built for brokerages and that will take a Western Australian brief. Neither has a Perth office, and the Perth depth scores say so.

1. FinTalent

Joe Shephard, Founder, fintalent.com.au

Focus:
Mortgage and finance broking only
Model:
Retained executive search
Guarantee:
120 days
Based:
Melbourne, no Perth office
Reach:
Placed roles in every state
Average fill:
27 days
  • Broking focus 10/10
  • Principal fit 10/10
  • Perth depth 3/10
  • Evidence 6/10

Total29/40

FinTalent ranks first for Perth on focus and fit, and the Perth depth score of 3 is there so nobody mistakes that for local presence. It has no Perth office and names no Western Australian client on its site. It publishes that it has placed roles in every state, and it runs a desk that does nothing but mortgage and finance broking from Melbourne, where Joe Shephard runs every search himself.

28Watt had spent five months trying to fill a seat itself; FinTalent rebuilt the brief and filled it thirteen days after the first email. Lagos Financial's first candidate was declined at interview, so the brief was rewritten instead of a second CV going out, and the right broker interviewed eight days later. In a small market a second run of the same ad starts with fewer people left to answer it, so the brief has to be right the first time.

It runs retained search, with a fee off base plus super and a 120-day guarantee. It takes a handful of briefs at a time and has nobody in Perth to sit in on your interviews.

Joe Shephard's verdict: The Perth broking story I'd point to isn't a recruitment one. When AFG invested in Perth's Lifespan Mortgage Services, the deal let the business restructure ownership as one founder neared retirement and appoint two director-level brokers with equity stakes, keeping the team intact. A Perth principal facing the same question needs a recruiter who understands equity, trail and succession, which is the subject of the people risk in buying a brokerage.

2. Integrate Recruitment

Samantha Bainbridge, Founder, integraterecruitment.com.au

Focus:
Mortgage broking is one of four core sectors
Base:
Melbourne; Perth landing page, no office
Broking roles listed:
15, from parabroker to head of lending
SEEK rating:
4.9 from 111 reviews, 86 in the last year (8 Oct 2026)
  • Broking focus 6/10
  • Principal fit 7/10
  • Perth depth 2/10
  • Evidence 6/10

Total21/40

Integrate has a Perth page and no Perth office, and describes itself as a Melbourne-based agency with a national network. It's second here because, after FinTalent, it has the broadest broking desk willing to work a Western Australian brief: fifteen published roles from parabroker and loan processor to commercial finance broker, credit manager and head of lending, permanent and contract.

Its SEEK profile shows 111 reviews at 4.9, most of them from the past year. Everything else it publishes points at Melbourne, so treat it as a remote search, same as FinTalent, and ask what Western Australian broking work it has done.

Lending desks, with and without a Perth office

Five firms that recruit lending and credit roles through a banking practice. Four have Perth offices; the one that doesn't ranks highest, because its desk is the most focused on lending.

3. Profusion Group

Credit and lending recruitment desk, profusiongroup.com

Desk:
Credit and lending recruitment
Offices:
Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, none in Perth
Perth work:
Lending manager role for a member-owned bank
  • Broking focus 4/10
  • Principal fit 4/10
  • Perth depth 2/10
  • Evidence 5/10

Total15/40

Profusion has no Perth office and runs its credit and lending desk from the east coast. Both of the Perth lending ads in our research, this one and one from Hays, were for member-owned or mutual banks, not brokerages.

Its credit and lending desk is the most focused of the financial services firms, recruiting BDMs, relationship managers, credit analysts and lending support for banks, brokers, private lenders and non-banks. For a Perth lender it's a better-aimed call than a generalist with a local office. For a Perth brokerage hiring a broker, it's a lender desk.

4. Hays

hays.com.au

Desk:
Hays Banking
Perth office:
Level 16, 1 William St
Perth work:
Lending manager role for a mutual bank
Offices:
Every state and territory
  • Broking focus 2/10
  • Principal fit 3/10
  • Perth depth 6/10
  • Evidence 4/10

Total15/40

Hays has a Perth CBD office on William Street and advertises banking jobs in Perth among ten cities. The Perth lending work we found was a lending manager role for a mutual bank, and its banking desk lists the loan processing, home lending, settlements and credit roles a brokerage hires. It doesn't publish a Perth banking lead.

That makes Hays the most practical local option for a Perth brokerage's support hire, and the strongest Perth bench for a lender. It's still a generalist desk: its banking page is written for banks and financial institutions, and the one brokerage search we found with a location was in Sydney.

5. Randstad

Stephanie Patoka, National General Manager, Banking and Financial Services, randstad.com.au

Desk:
Banking and financial services
Perth office:
Level 17, 140 St Georges Tce
Office type:
Finance and accounting, tagged banking
  • Broking focus 3/10
  • Principal fit 3/10
  • Perth depth 5/10
  • Evidence 4/10

Total15/40

Randstad's Perth office on St Georges Terrace is a finance and accounting office tagged for banking and financial services, not one of the dedicated banking offices it runs in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. Its banking practice is still the only global generalist's to name mortgage broking and non-bank lending among the areas it recruits.

So it's a broking-aware national practice with a Perth door, rather than a Perth banking desk. Useful for temp or contract support cover in Perth, or a lender's volume hiring. It publishes no Perth brokerage work.

6. Robert Walters

robertwalters.com.au

Desk:
Banking and financial services
Perth:
One of five offices listed for the practice
In Australia since:
1996
  • Broking focus 2/10
  • Principal fit 2/10
  • Perth depth 5/10
  • Evidence 3/10

Total12/40

Robert Walters lists Perth among the five offices of its banking and financial services practice, which works for investment banks, fund managers, domestic retail and corporate banks and fintechs. It names a banking director in Brisbane but no one in Perth, and its desk page doesn't mention broking, lending origination or loan processing.

For a Perth bank or fund hiring finance and operations staff, it's a credible local office. For a brokerage, it's on this list mainly because it's in Perth.

7. Michael Page

michaelpage.com.au

Desk:
Banking and financial services
Perth:
One of four offices named by its financial services practice
In Australia since:
1985
  • Broking focus 2/10
  • Principal fit 2/10
  • Perth depth 5/10
  • Evidence 3/10

Total12/40

Michael Page names Perth as one of four offices behind its financial services practice, which lists lending, structured lending, credit analysis, credit approval and credit risk for banks and non-bank financial institutions. It publishes no lending lead and nothing on broking or loan processing.

It sits level with Robert Walters: a reasonable Perth call for a credit role at a bank or a large lender, and a long way from the brief of a principal hiring a broker. It says more than 90% of its business comes from referrals and repeat clients, its own figure.

The Perth broking market, in the numbers we've published

Western Australia is a smaller and quieter broking job market than the east coast. The MFAA's directory puts 1,758 brokers in WA, 11.3% of the national total, and WA businesses posted 52 of the direct-employer broking ads FinTalent counted between February and August 2026, 8.4% of the total. That's 29.6 ads per thousand brokers, against 51.5 in Queensland and 47.6 in New South Wales (The Index, edition one).

Fewer ads per broker means a Perth principal isn't fighting as many other employers for attention. It also means there's less broking hiring for a local recruiter to build a desk around, which is the likeliest reason none of the Perth offices has one. Pay is the lowest of the four biggest capitals on FinTalent's salary guide: $80,000 to $100,000 base for a Perth broker with two to five years, $105,000 to $130,000 for a senior broker, and $75,000 to $95,000 for a credit analyst.

Why a national broking specialist usually beats a local desk in Perth

A national broking specialist reads broking candidates every day: whose trail is real, what their restraint and clawback position looks like, whether their volumes check out, and which aggregator they'll be leaving. Those are the questions that decide a broker hire, and a banking desk that sees few broking briefs has had little reason to get good at them. Verifying broker volumes shows how much is in the detail.

The pool isn't only local either. Brokers service clients across state lines, and some seats don't need a desk in Perth at all. FinTalent's credit analyst hiring guide found half of 95 credit analyst ads in New South Wales, and outside Sydney and Brisbane the pool thins quickly enough that a remote arrangement stops being a perk. A local office wins on temp cover, on someone in the room for the final interview, and on a lender's volume hiring. For a broker, a credit analyst or a senior support seat in a principal-led brokerage, brief the specialist.

Joe Shephard's verdict: Most of a broking search happens on the phone with a broker who's weighing trail, restraint and clawback, and that conversation is the same in Perth as anywhere else. What I can't do from Melbourne is sit in your office for the final interview, so if that matters to you, say so at the brief.

Also worth knowing

MARS Recruitment was founded in Perth in 2008 and still has a Perth office, whose director specialises in accounting and finance. It publishes no lending or broking desk in Perth, so it isn't ranked here. Bluefin Resources says it has senior capability in Perth, described as consultants on the ground or national coverage rather than an office, and its lending desk is built for lender-side roles such as broker-channel BDMs.

Robert Half has a Perth office on St Georges Terrace and recruits credit and risk roles, but publishes nothing on broking. Platinum People Group and Fuse Recruitment, the two broking desks behind FinTalent on the national list, publish no office or team in Western Australia. The Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane lists cover the east coast.

How to choose a recruiter for a Perth brokerage

Decide what you're actually buying. If it's temp cover or someone local to sit in on interviews, Hays and Randstad have Perth offices and will do it. If it's judgement on a broker, a credit analyst or a senior support seat, you're choosing between firms that will run the search from the east, so choose on the brief.

Ask for Western Australian broking placements, not Western Australian placements, because a desk that has filled bank seats in Perth hasn't necessarily filled a brokerage's. Ask who will run it and from which city, what the guarantee period is, and whether they'll tell you if the brief is wrong before they start sending CVs.

Joe Shephard's verdict: In a market that produced 52 direct-employer broking ads in six months, the people who'd answer yours saw it the first time. One broking business in five goes back to market for the same role inside 90 days, and our count shows the second run starts from a worse position because the good candidates have already been through it. Spend the time on the first brief.

How this list is scored

  • Broking focus. How much of the firm's work is mortgage and finance broking. A broking-only firm beats a broking desk inside a generalist.
  • Principal fit. How well the firm suits a principal-led brokerage, where one hire changes the business, rather than a bank or a large group hiring at volume.
  • Perth depth. An office in Perth, or published placements and clients there, rather than a pin on a map.
  • Evidence. Published proof you can check before you brief anyone: named clients, case studies with numbers, reviews with names on them.

Each firm is scored out of ten on the four criteria above, for a total out of 40. The scores are FinTalent's editorial judgement, made against what each firm publishes about itself, and every card links to the firm's own website so you can check the facts yourself.

FinTalent publishes this list and ranks itself first under these criteria. That's stated here rather than left for you to find out. The criteria are weighted for principal-led brokerages in Perth and Western Australia hiring brokers, credit analysts and support staff, because that's who this site is for. Perth depth rewards a Perth office or published Western Australian work, and it's deliberately low for every firm that runs Perth searches from the east coast, FinTalent included. Firms that are also on the national list keep their focus and fit scores; evidence is scored on what a Perth principal can check, which is why FinTalent's is lower here than anywhere else. Where a figure is self-reported, the card says so. A Perth lender or bank should re-rank: the firms with Perth offices are described for exactly that brief.

Nobody paid to be on this list and there's no entry to buy. Firms that didn't make the ranked list are named further down, so you can see who was left out and why.

Facts about each firm were last checked against its own website on . Spotted something out of date? Email joe@fintalent.com.au and it gets fixed.

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Questions principals ask

Who is the best mortgage broking recruiter in Perth?

FinTalent, for a Perth brokerage hiring a broker, a credit analyst or a senior support seat. It only does mortgage and finance broking and has placed roles in every state, though it runs Perth searches from Melbourne. Integrate Recruitment is the other broking-focused firm that will take a Western Australian brief remotely. For lender-side roles, Profusion has the most focused lending desk. If you need someone in Perth, Hays and Randstad have Perth offices for support hiring and temp cover, and Robert Walters and Michael Page have Perth offices for bank roles.

Is there a specialist mortgage broking recruiter based in Perth?

Not that we found. None of the firms with a mortgage broking desk in our research has a Perth office, and the Perth offices of the big generalists are banking or finance desks. MARS Recruitment was founded in Perth but runs its banking desk from Sydney. FinTalent runs Perth broking searches from Melbourne and says so.

What does a mortgage broker earn in Perth?

FinTalent's FY26/27 salary guide puts a Perth broker with two to five years at $80,000 to $100,000 base plus super and a senior broker at $105,000 to $130,000, with commission and settlement bonuses on top. A Perth credit analyst is $75,000 to $95,000 and a loan processor starting out $55,000 to $70,000.

Can a Melbourne recruiter fill a Perth broking role?

Yes. Most of a broking search happens on the phone and on LinkedIn, and FinTalent has placed roles in every state from Melbourne. The practical limits are that there's no temp cover and nobody local for the final interview. If you need either, use a Perth office for that part and a broking specialist for the search.

Sources

  1. Integrate Recruitment: Perth
  2. Integrate Recruitment: home
  3. Profusion Group: contact and offices
  4. Profusion Group: credit and lending recruitment
  5. Hays: Perth office
  6. Hays: banking jobs
  7. Randstad: Perth office
  8. Randstad: banking and finance
  9. Robert Walters: banking and financial services
  10. Michael Page: about financial services
  11. MARS Recruitment: our team
  12. Bluefin Resources: locations
  13. FinTalent: The Index, edition one
  14. FinTalent case study: 28Watt

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