Senior Recruitment Consultant - Financial Services
Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services for businesses of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.
We help organisations find the skills and solutions to reach their goals and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential.
We offer our people incredible career opportunities as well as an inclusive culture and flexible working.
About the Role:
As a Senior Recruitment Consultant, you’ll be a prominent member of the team. That’s why we’re looking for a high achiever – someone who can lead by example and get the best out of others.
You’ll work closely with our clients, developing positive, constructive relationships with them as well as with our candidates.
You can also expect to create new opportunities and win new business by networking, attending client meetings, gathering market information, and making business development calls.
What you will be doing:
- Work closely with your manager to continuously develop your business area, negotiating terms to secure exclusive relationships and retain existing business.
- Handle a range of accounts and take responsibility for key relationships, ensuring we deliver on all client expectations and our SLAs.
- Manage the recruitment process from beginning to end, including the development and delivery of short and long-term recruitment campaigns.
- Source, select and match high quality candidates, ensuring only the best are put forward to our clients for interview.
- Provide guidance to other team members on all aspects of recruitment, mentoring less experienced colleagues.
- Support your manager in identifying team and individual areas for development, deputising for them in their absence.
Who you are:
- The drive to make things happen and hit your targets, even under pressure
- Strong negotiation skills and a highly strategic, commercial mindset
- An entrepreneurial, professional approach and a commitment to self-development
- The ability to maintain a high profile and to set the standard for the team
- Strong problem-solving and lateral-thinking skills – you deliver innovative solutions
Benefits:
- A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
- A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you’ll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
- Private medical insurance
- A fantastic training and development programme
- Volunteer time off
- The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
- Employee wellbeing through various programmes
- You’ll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That’s the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP
As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.
About the job

Contract Type: Perm
Specialism: Human Resources
Focus: Recruitment- sourcing
Industry: Human Resources and Personnel
Salary: Competitive Package
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Associate
Language: English - Professional working
Location: Johannesburg
FULL_TIMEJob Reference: 6503
Date posted: 10 July 2025
Consultant: Nic Farmer
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