Our Work/FSTalent
FSTalent.
Specialist financial services recruitment consultancy connecting firms with senior and specialist talent across the UK.
- Services
- Branding, Web Design
- Sector
- Financial Services, Recruitment
FS Talent supports financial services firms with strategic hiring across key verticals including risk, compliance, legal, governance, operations, and finance.
We developed their brand identity and completed a website redesign to create a more elevated, sharper online presence aligned with the expectations of the financial services sector.
The new platform integrates directly with their Vincere CRM system, combining brand positioning with a fully functional recruitment hub.
Website Design
A Job Board That Fills Itself
FS Talent’s roles come straight from its recruitment CRM onto a board candidates can search. Search the live roles, or pick a location.
Synced With Vincere
A role uploaded in FS Talent’s Vincere CRM publishes itself to the board, with its title, location, salary, sector and type.
Filters Candidates Expect
On the live board, roles filter by date added, remote or hybrid, location, contract type and salary range.
Found On Google Jobs
Every role gets its own search-friendly page carrying JobPosting structured data, so it can appear in Google Jobs.
Financial Services
Risk Analyst
Job Summary
Owning the risk framework at a growing specialist lender.
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Head of Compliance
Job Summary
Leading compliance at an established financial firm.
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Full-Stack Engineer
Job Summary
Hybrid engineering for a fast-growing wealth manager.
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Legal Counsel
Job Summary
Contracts and commercial agreements for a growing business.
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Marketing Manager
Job Summary
Marketing leadership for a financial services firm.
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Protection Adviser
Job Summary
Protection advice within a well-established wealth manager.
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Head of Corporate Due Diligence
Job Summary
Building due diligence for a financial infrastructure firm.
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Paraplanning Manager
Job Summary
Leading paraplanning for a financial planning firm.
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The Consultants, Up Front
Recruitment is bought on trust in the people. The homepage introduces them. Open a bio, or browse the team.
The People Behind The Search
Clients buy a consultant’s judgement, so the team is on the homepage, with their specialisms.
A Bio On Every Card
Each card opens to the consultant’s background, without leaving the page.
Added In WordPress
Every consultant is a team entry in WordPress, so a new hire gets a card and a bio without any design work.
FS Talent
Meet the team.
Harry Durkin
Managing Director
Harry Durkin
Co-founder, hiring across compliance, risk and legal in financial services.
Tom Durkin
Managing Director
Tom Durkin
Co-founder and former Paratrooper, leading compliance, risk and legal search.
Natasha Stoddart
Senior Search Consultant
Natasha Stoddart
More than a decade placing qualified and part-qualified finance professionals.
Emma Allen
Marketing Manager
Emma Allen
Leads the campaigns, content and thought leadership behind the brand.
How It Was Built
We built a fully integrated recruitment platform that combines live CRM synchronisation, advanced job filtering, structured SEO architecture, and a polished brand presentation.
User Experience
Simple sector navigation, structured job filtering, and intuitive content flow guide both hiring firms and candidates through the site with ease.
Mobile Responsive
Job listings, filters, and enquiry journeys are fully optimised for mobile-first browsing.
Interactive Design
Subtle hover transitions, scrolling sector banners, and dynamic content blocks introduce movement while maintaining the professionalism expected within financial services.
"First Rate Marketing delivered exactly what they promised and more. Sam and the team were very responsive and often suggested improvements we hadn’t initially considered."
Tom Durkin
Managing Director, FS Talent
Branding
The Mark
The Logo
The primary logo is a sleek wordmark featuring a distinctive ‘f’, supported by a flexible marque for use across digital and presentation materials.
What Is Unique About The Logo?
The primary logo is a modern wordmark featuring a distinctive 'f' character, supported by a flexible brand marque derived from the same form.
The Marque
Drawn from the ‘f’, the marque traces a candidate’s journey from start to finish, with FS Talent in the square at its heart: an extension of the client’s business.
Colourways
Duotone on the dark grounds, with Lemon in the square; one colour on the light ones. Six approved pairings, one for every colour in the palette. Try them.
The Type
One Typeface
Everett is used across headings and body copy to maintain a clear typographic hierarchy, with Light used for lead messaging and Medium used for emphasis.
The Hierarchy
Headlines in Everett Light, with key phrases picked out in Lemon on dark grounds; body copy in Light, and calls to action in Medium so they stand out.
The Colour
The Palette
Aubergine forms the foundation of the identity, balanced with off-white for clarity and lemon as a sharp accent, supported by violet, mauve grey, and lilac tones.
Three Primaries
Aubergine is the foundation, Off-White keeps it clear, and Lemon is the sharp accent.
Three For Depth
Violet, Mauve Grey and Lilac add depth, and give the marque its grounds when it works as a device.
The Marque As A Device
Cut At The Square
The marque works on its own as a graphic element. It can be cropped, but always at the square, and it is never rotated or flipped.
Background Usage
Behind copy it drops back: each ground has its own opacity, from 30% on Aubergine to 5% on the lightest colours. Try them.
The Pattern
Repeated, the marque becomes a pattern, used only on Aubergine, in Off-White at 5%, for texture without noise.
The Brand In Use
A Social Media Kit
Square and carousel post templates in PowerPoint, so FS Talent’s team publishes on brand without a designer.
Stories For New Roles
Story templates announce new roles and share client feedback in the same look.
Company and personal banners carry the brand across FS Talent’s LinkedIn presence.
