Talent Radar · May 2026 — GCC hiring slows in BFSI, AI roles up 14%.

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Risk, quant, and compliance leaders who can carry the regulatory weight.

Banking, financial services, and insurance GCCs in India now run risk, quant, and core technology for the parent. These are roles where the wrong hire is a control failure waiting to happen. We bring the off-market reach and the precise comp read to land people who can actually carry them.

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Risk · quant · compliance · tech
Where we place
Dirto VP
Comp precision
By role
The Problem

The band is precise, the supply is thin, and the cost of a miss is a control gap.

BFSI comp is unusually specific. A Head of Model Risk and a Head of Market Risk sit a level apart in pay even when the titles look alike, and candidates know their exact worth to the basis point. A band set by a generic survey loses the shortlist before the first call.

Supply is the other half. For quant, model risk, and senior compliance roles, the qualified pool in any one city is small, mostly settled inside banks and large GCCs, and bound by notice and non-competes. You reach them by mapping and discretion, not by widening a job post.

In risk and quant, a band that's a little off doesn't slow the search, it ends it.
Across BFSI GCC mandates
Our Approach

Precision on price, reach on supply.

BFSI hiring rewards exactness. We benchmark to the specific role, map the settled pool, and assess for the judgment a control function actually needs.

01 · Price to the role
Comp that knows model risk from market risk
We benchmark to the exact role, not the function, drawing on what comparable risk, quant, and compliance mandates closed at in your city. The band a candidate at this level expects to the basis point, so you're credible from the first conversation.
02 · Reach the settled
Off-market mapping for a small, quiet pool
The right quant or compliance leaders are inside banks and large GCCs, not in the active market. We map the qualified universe across the hubs and approach discreetly, mindful of notice and non-compete exposure on both sides.
03 · Assess for judgment
Control roles need spine, not just skill
A control function fails on judgment before it fails on technique. We assess for whether someone has actually held the line under pressure, so the shortlist is people who can own the risk, not just describe it.
What This Changes

The numbers that move.

Aggregates across BFSI mandates we ran in 2024 to 2025. Not promises, the pattern on risk, quant, and compliance roles.

35
Compensation-benchmarking studies behind how we price risk, quant, and compliance roles
Benchmarking studies run
~7 wks
Typical brief-to-offer once the band is calibrated
Senior time-to-offer
~94%
Of placed leaders still in seat at twelve months
12-month retention, firm-wide
Frequently Asked

Questions we get asked.

If you don't see what you're looking for, the form below is the fastest route. Most enquiries get a response within one working day.

Which BFSI roles do you place?
Risk across credit, market, and model, quantitative analytics, compliance and financial crime, core banking and capital-markets technology, actuarial and insurance leadership, and the GCC leadership layer above them.
Comp at this level is very specific. Can you benchmark to the exact role?
Yes. We benchmark to the specific role and seniority, not the broad function, using what comparable mandates closed at in your city. That precision is what keeps you credible with candidates who know their worth to the basis point.
The people we want are inside other banks. How do you reach them?
We map the settled pool across the hubs and approach discreetly, mindful of notice and non-compete exposure. Most of the strongest BFSI shortlists come from this off-market work, not from the active market.
How do you assess for control roles specifically?
We assess for judgment under pressure, whether a candidate has genuinely held the line, not just the technical skill. In a control function that's the difference that matters most, and it's the part a CV won't show you.
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