Risk & Compliance

Recruiting specialist risk expertise to help firms manage security and build new opportunities.

Totum’s specialist risk & compliance consultants are experts in sourcing risk professionals who can help professional services firms mitigate modern security challenges. We understand how risk profiles are evolving and how important finding the right talent is to manage and mitigate these challenges effectively.

We offer a bespoke recruitment service that evolves with the needs of individual firms. Our risk consultants have access to an unparalleled network of candidates and contacts, allowing us to source the best risk professionals from the deepest talent pools.

What we do

Totum recruits risk professionals across the UK, US, and internationally. We are highly-experienced in recruiting across the professional services industry, including law, real estate, accountancy, management consultancies and in firms with private equity investment.

Our risk team is available to help firms seeking candidates across seniority levels, from Manager-level positions through to Directors and Chief-level roles. Our best-in-class recruitment team can help firms with everything from individual mandates to building out functions and organisational design.

We also offer talent mapping services for risk functions. By examining the entirety of the risk talent market, we are able to highlight hidden talent, showcasing how other firms are operating, and look for new trends.

Why Totum?

Totum specialises in sourcing exceptional risk professionals who can operate and provide expertise in this evolving field.

From Chief and Director-level roles through to building risk functions, we’re proud of our ability to source risk professionals who can make a strategic impact on your firm.

Core values

Totum offers the premier business services recruitment process in professional services. Our superior knowledge of the market, ethical approach to recruitment and ability to tap new markets means we are the go-to recruiter of those looking to hire senior risk talent.

We value integrity, discretion and trustworthiness and our partners appreciate and value our approach to recruitment, particularly for senior mandates.

Networks

Totum sits at the centre of the business services community within the professional services sector. This community comprising clients, candidates, networks, and strategic partnerships is not only integral to our business strategy but also to our ongoing learning and development.

Consultative approach

Clients have told us they value our consultative ability to shape and challenge briefs with market realities, on-the-pulse insights and functional expertise.

We believe in a relationship-first approach, allowing us to build trust with our clients and a unique, bespoke approach to each mandate. This extends beyond individual roles – Totum is able to provide advice on newly-created positions or teams, offering organisational design, strategic input and deep experience on what best-in-class looks like throughout professional services.

In addition, our research function provides regular advice and guidance across business services functions. Our annual Reward report offers participating firms key salary benchmarking across the entire finance function.

Roles we cover

Totum’s risk team are able to work with firms on individual or multi-role appointments. We recruit across all seniority levels, with particular expertise in Director and Chief-level appointments.

Contact our risk team to begin your search.