Richard Dyson

Richard is an experienced Senior Recruiter with a strong track record across private equity, investment banking, and specialist corporate recruitment. He brings deep expertise in end-to-end talent acquisition, including strategic sourcing, stakeholder partnership, competency-based interviewing, and project delivery across fast-paced, high-growth environments.

He has worked extensively with Investment Risk, Market Risk, Enterprise Risk, Operational Risk, Portfolio Construction, and Quantitative teams, giving him strong familiarity with the technical, analytical and commercial skillsets demanded by financial and investment organisations. This experience is highly transferable to private equity environments where rigorous assessment, high-calibre hiring, and strong organisational judgment are essential.

Richard has operated within advanced HR and recruitment infrastructures, with expertise in Workday ATS, recruitment analytics, and modern talent acquisition systems. He has collaborated closely with Talent Acquisition, Reward, and Diversity & Inclusion teams, and has led D&I initiatives across Risk functions, as well as European HR projects such as salary benchmarking, internal mobility design, and retention strategy.

Morrison Data Services, London                                                                          May 2024 – present

Commercial Operations – Contract (due to current UK market)

Cameron Kennedy, London                                                                                    Aug 2023 – April 2024

Established in 2005, a leading recruitment firm specialising in Finance, Operations, Technology, Risk & Compliance. Global coverage across UK, EMEA & APAC.

Senior Consultant - Interim

Key Responsibilities:

• Built a Risk Desk from the ground up.
• Specialised in buy- and sell-side risk management, focusing on operational, market and regulatory risk across EMEA.
• Supported small to mid-sized hedge funds and institutional investment managers.
• Managed contingent recruitment processes, with 4–8 week time-to-fill depending on role complexity.
• Developed sales plans for client meetings, outlining objectives and desired outcomes.
• Secured four new clients (two hedge funds, two institutional managers) with additional pipeline growth forecast for Q2 2024.

Macquarie Bank, London                                                                                        Sept 2022 – Jul 2023

Reputable Global Investment Bank with expertise in infrastructure, energy, technology and commodities. Focus on innovation, risk management and delivering sustained long -term value for clients, partners, investors and staff. 

Senior Lead Recruiter Risk Management Group

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivered a superior recruitment experience for both candidates and hiring managers. 
• Created and delivered sourcing strategies to identify and secure risk talent.
• Focused on Regulatory Risk, Market Risk, Credıt Rısk and Enterprise Risk, Audit and Compliance for EMEA.
• Led on a number of key risk projects for Macquarıe Bank Europe ın Dublin.
• Managed a vacancy portfolıo, coupled with advising and supporting senior stakeholders.
• Acted as the SME to drive EMEA wide risk talent acquisition strategy.
• Mentored two sourcing partners.
• Saved the business £150,000 in external recruitment fees in the first four months.
• Worked on the ATS system Workday. 
• Liaised regularly with the HR Reward team on contract generation and offer approvals.
• Created and implemented a interview competency framework across RMG (Risk Management Group).
• Led on a number of D&I inclusion projects within the Risk Management Group. Increased the level of female hires by 25% for London. Overall the ratio was 55% female versus 45% male. 

Carnegie Consulting, London                                                                                 Jun 2019 – Aug 2022

Boutique specialist recruitment agency focusing on Finance, Operations, Investment, HR and Business Support positions for the Private Equity, Asset Management, Hedge Fund markets.

Head Hunter Risk & Operations  and Invetsments 

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for candidate delivery for buy-side client accounts across Risk & Operations. Core specialist areas were Investment Risk, Operational Risk, Enterprise Risk, Regulatory Risk, Governance Risk and Operations.
• Achieved PSL status with two pension funds and two hedge funds. 
• Experienced in the 360 degree recruitment life-cycle both candidate and client side. 
• Recruitment covering EMEA, main focus on London and the UAE markets. 
• Recruited predominantly at Managing Director, COO, CRO, Director, VP level.
• Clients small to mid- sized hedge funds and fund managers covering commodities, private equity, real estate and distressed debt.
• Recruitment 70% contingent 30% retained. Time to fill ranging from 4- 8 weeks dependant on complexity of assignment.
• Prepared sales plans for client meetings, detailing objectives and proposed outcomes of each meeting. 
• Generated £120,000 Yr 1, £180,000 Yr2 and £140,000 Y3 in recruitment fees. 

Bond McKenzie, Brentwood, Essex                                                                      Aug 2018 – May 2019

Established in 2007 to provide contingent and executive search services across operations, risk management and technology focusing on the Investment Banking markets. 

Senior Consultant – Risk (Self – Employed)

Key Responsibilities: 

• Recruited for Credit & Operational risk professionals covering the sell-side for EMEA.
• Experienced in the 360 degree recruitment life-cycle for both the candidate and client side.
• Achieved PSL status with two formidable Investment Banking clients in risk.
• Executed business on a contingent and retained basis.
• Secured three new clients, and achieved PSL status within the first three months of starting. 
• Completed two high level retainers at Director level within Credit and Operational Risk.

Emagine Consulting – Management Consulting, London                              Dec 2017 – Jun 2018

Emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm. Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector.

Partner Manager – Contract 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for candidate delivery into key client accounts across technology.
• Core specialisms were business analysis, programme management office, technical architecture and technology development.
• Pipelining candidates for future requirements 
• Performed pre - screening and interview activities.

S&P Global, London                                                                                                 Jul 2013 – Oct 2017

S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 The McGraw–Hill Companies, Inc.) is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics.

Recruiter for S&P Global via ADP RPO UK Ltd 

Key Responsibilities:

• Coverage of recruitment for credit risk, ratings analytics, business development, sales, human resources and quantitative risk disciplines across EMEA.
• Managed job descriptions and advertising.
• Pipelined candidates for future requirements. 
• Delivered market intelligence and acted as a talent advisor for internal stakeholders.
• Compiled requisite reporting.
• Performed effective pre-screening and interviewing activities.
• Managed the offer details and compensation negotiation with candidates.
• Ensured all parties understand total compensation, benefits and reward.Successfully implemented a competency based interview framework across the ratings business. This was then used successfully across S&P Platts and S&P Market Intelligence for recruitment. 
• Final year saved S&P Global £450,000 in recruitment fees. 80% of the recruitment over the four years of me working within the ratings business was sourced directly. 

Richard has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration