How FinTalent filled a complex-lending brief and unlocked a commercial-growth ambition in a single placement.
ZEP Finance needed some of the complex, self-employed and business-owner deals taken off
the Managing Director's desk.
Zain had built a structured, award-winning brokerage, yet was carrying long days because too much of the hardest work still had nowhere else to go.
I don't want to retire, but I don't want to work this level.
Zain Peart, Managing Director, ZEP Finance
Zain had already tried to open a commercial side. Two business bankers signed with ZEP, and neither joined.
For now, he wanted a resi broker with complex-lending depth.
Most recruiters would have filled that brief and stopped.
FinTalent went further, and found a residential broker who is also an ex-commercial banker, eighteen years in lending behind him. The commercial half is what let one hire fill the stated role and revive the commercial plan.
Two discovery calls surface the founder as the bottleneck, and a commercial side he had already tried to hire for.
Retainer signed 1 May. FinTalent sources Ryan, a residential broker and ex-commercial banker in one.
Two interview stages with Zain and Emma. Cultural and technical fit holds on both sides.
Offer confirmed, contract executed. Six weeks from brief to placement.
The stated ask was a resi broker with complex depth.
In discovery, a bigger goal surfaced: a commercial side Zain had already tried to hire for.
Ryan is not just a residential broker.
He is an ex-commercial banker with eighteen years in lending, so the complex deals land from day one and the commercial book has someone who can grow it.
FinTalent navigated the fit and the numbers, and this offer landed.
Past hires had walked.
Ryan signed in June and started on 1 July. He was matched on the work, the culture and the growth path, then backed by structured aftercare.
We think he would be a great fit for the team.
Emma Peart, Co-Owner, ZEP Finance
Some of the complex, self-employed and business-owner deals now have somewhere else to go.
Zain can hand more of them across and step back toward the guiding role he is planning.
The commercial side he had already tried to hire for now has
someone who can lead it, in the same hire.
We went to him on LinkedIn. He and Zain already knew each other from earlier in their careers, and Ryan flagged it himself rather than let us find out.
Money nearly stopped it. He held one number through three conversations and never asked for more, which is how we knew he was moving for the work.
Whether you are building a team or looking for the brokerage that finally fits, this is how it starts.
With a straight conversation.