Jessica Smith

Recruiter

United Kingdom8 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 8 years of experience in talent acquisition.
  • Expertise in scaling teams for FinTech startups.
  • Proven track record in diverse functional areas.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic talent acquisition leader in the FinTech sector.

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Business DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCoachingCustomer ServiceFinanceFinancial AccountingFinancial AnalysisFinancial ReportingManagementMarketingMarketing CommunicationsMarketing StrategyMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeNegotiation

About

Head of Talent with over 8 years’ experience working in agency and in-house. I have spent the last 4 years in start-up and scale up FinTech’s covering roles in Engineering, Product, Finance, Legal, Operations, Compliance, Administration, HR, Talent and Commercial.

Experience

9fin

Senior Talent Partner

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

Aj | flx

Senior Talent Partner

Sep 2024Mar 2025 · 6 mos · Remote

Flock

Senior Talent Partner (via AJ FLX)

Sep 2024Feb 2025 · 5 mos

Scede

Senior Talent Partner

Mar 2024Sep 2024 · 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

  • Supporting coverage for the following clients over a 6-month FTC.
  • Pleo
  • TrustPilot
  • Zenrows
  • Supercell
  • ChainLink
  • We partner with tech companies and games studios to help them achieve their hiring goals. Since 2013, we've scaled teams for 100+ businesses in Europe and North America via our flexible, subscription-based or pay-as-you-go recruitment solutions 🌍
  • Our people have first-hand experience and proven capability hiring at all stages of growth; from stealth-mode startups through to hyper-scale and IPO. This gives us deep insight into the many roadblocks companies face when scaling their teams - and how to solve for them effectively ✅
  • We've shaped, iterated and productised a set of cost-effective, plug-and-play recruitment services that can fast-track your path to hiring success.
  • Our “Embedded” and “Source” services allow you to ramp up recruitment or sourcing capacity quickly - whether it be tech, commercial, operations, or games hiring - with the flexibility to increase or decrease our support as your needs evolve. Or level up your Talent Acquisition function through our modular, on-demand “Advisory” offering.
  • The future of recruitment teams is fluid - a hybrid mix of permanent in-house resources and reliable, flexible external support 🤝
  • Founders, Talent Leaders and Venture Funds choose to work with us and have continued recommending us to their networks year-on-year as a trusted scaling partner. Why? Because we treat recruitment as a craft. We care deeply about making a long-term impact. And we’re driven by our #1 company objective; to deliver an exceptional service to our customers 🙌

Paytrix

Head of Talent Acquisition

Nov 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Leading the Talent team at one of UK's fastest growing payments start-ups, covering full talent and recruitment functions across the entire business in Product & Engineering and Non-Tech roles across multiple geographies. Working in a highly Agile environment that is at the forefront of innovation requires building a flexible recruitment model that adapts to an ever shifting landscape.

Truelayer

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Jan 2022Oct 2022 · 9 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • TrueLayer is a global open banking platform that makes it easy for anyone to build better financial experiences. Businesses of every size, from startups to large enterprises, use TrueLayer to power their payments, access financial insights, and onboard customers across Europe, the UK, and Australia.
  • Founded in 2016, TrueLayer is is trusted by millions of consumers and businesses around the world. Our vision is to create a financial system that works for everyone.

10x banking

Senior Talent Partner

Feb 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · London, England Metropolitan Area

  • At 10x our aim is to transform banking and we are leading a revolution with our next-generation cloud-native technology platform. We enable our client banks to engage their customers with more timely, relevant and personalised experiences when it comes to managing money.
  • With a transformational end-to-end architecture, everything has been designed from first principles to bring forward a new way of banking.
  • We are continuing to expand and worth exploring our new opportunities.
  • https://www.10xbanking.com/careers

Bie executive

Recruitment Specialist

Jan 2019Jan 2020 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom

  • Managing recruitment cycle
  • Souring/Building a candidate bench/pool for roles in Finance, HR, IT and Technology
  • Placing Job Adverts on job portals
  • Reviewing CV’s from ad response
  • Interviewing candidates
  • Being the first point of contact for candidates
  • Matching/shortlisting candidates to Job Specs
  • Referencing
  • Recruitment coordination
  • Ensuring feedback in given to candidates
  • Conducting regular follow ups with candidates

Green marble recruitment consultants

Recruitment Consultant

Jan 2018Dec 2018 · 11 mos · Pretoria Area, South Africa

  • Sourcing top talent from various platforms
  • Managing the full recruitment cycle
  • Matching candidates to the right job opportunity In depth interviewing with candidates
  • Conducting all relevant background checks
  • Presenting candidates with offers and ensuring their acceptance
  • Contract and permanent placements
  • Advertising and business development
  • Establishing relationships with new clients through business development and marketing campaigns
  • Visiting current and prospective clients to develop strong relationships
  • Getting to know how client companies operate and understanding their general ‘culture’
  • Advertising vacancies
  • Coaching and leading candidates and clients throughout the hiring process
  • Helping candidates to identify and achieve their career goals, and encouraging continuing professional development
  • Screening, interviewing and short-listing potential candidates both personally and by telephone
  • Making job offers and checking references on candidates.

Network recruitment

Recruitment Consultant

May 2016Dec 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pretoria Area, South Africa

  • Sourcing short skilled Financial Professionals from various platforms
  • Managing the full recruitment cycle
  • Matching candidates to the right job opportunity
  • In depth interviewing with candidates
  • Conducting all relevant background checks
  • Presenting candidates with offers and ensuring their acceptance
  • Contract and permanent placements
  • Specialist niche/position focus:
  • Internal Auditor
  • IT Auditors
  • CA(SA)
  • Risk Analysts/Manager/Specialist
  • IT Risk
  • Chief Risk Officer
  • Head of Risk
  • Industries:
  • Financial Services
  • Insurance
  • FMCG
  • Manufacturing
  • Retail
  • Hospitality
  • Property

Education

University of Pretoria

Bachelor's Degree — BSocSci Industrial Sociology and Labour Law

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Cornwall Hill College

High School

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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