McCabe and Barton are a specialist recruitment business founded in 2000 focusing on technology and business change roles within the Private and Public Sector. We specialise in mid to senior level recruitment in technology, digital, data, change and risk, providing high calibre individuals on both a contract and permanent basis – in this space we are very well-connected and have an excellent understanding of the market. Based in The City of London we work in the UK and European market.
McCabe & Barton have been specialising in Financial Markets and Search and Contingent Recruitment since we established our business in 2000. Gillian's background working in IT in the City for 18 years, coupled with the expertise of our other highly experienced Directors, means that we have built up a reputation and established networks that are second-to-none.
Offering permanent as well as contract/interim we work at all levels up to and including MD for several leading Investment Banks, Asset/Wealth Managers and consultancies who operate in this space, including IT/Technology and Business Change/Transformation, as well as regulatory & risk/compliance.
If you are interested in finding out more about us, please contact the following depending on the vertical sector.
In 2015 we started working with Central Government, providing permanent and interim leaders in Technology, Architecture, Digital, Data. We have an extremely strong record working with a number of Departments, Agencies and arms-length bodies successfully sourcing and selecting candidates in this very competitive market.
We are very proud to work on these roles, without exception these opportunities are hugely exciting and challenging; transformational roles working at a scale, scope and complexity rarely seen in any other organisations. For these reasons and many others these are very attractive roles for candidates, many who have taken the step from the private sector and are looking for something new. We work very closely with all of our candidates but often provide extra coaching for individuals making this transition, helping and guiding through the selection/interview process especially.
Our strategy is to work very closely and iteratively with the Hiring Manager; asking lots of questions, providing benchmark CVs, keeping a constant feedback loop and improving our search throughout. When sourcing candidates we focus our efforts primarily on proactive search using a proven and effective combination of cold research, referrals and recommendations from our trusted networks and wide pool of existing relationships within the technology and digital transformation world. We will headhunt and target key individuals in the digital space and those working for organisations leading the way in digital transformation.
We always work in a transparent and honest way with both candidates and clients, ensuring all parties are kept up to date throughout. For each search we develop an interview scorecard to objectively screen candidates that we share with the Hiring managers. We understand the process that needs to be adhered to but will also work with our clients to streamline the process whenever possible, such as organising psychometric testing directly.
If you are interested in learning more about working for Central Government please contact Caroline Goldie or Justin Frankum.
Insurance
Insurance is a relatively new but exciting sector for McCabe & Barton. Currently an industry that are facing the challenge of adopting digital technology it is one with many opportunities for all levels of technology and transformation individuals.
For more information about the challenges and opportunities within the Insurance market please contact Steve Clayton.
Digital
All senior technology positions must now incorporate Digital strategy and delivery.
The move away from a physical to a virtual presence across both the private and public sector has created new challenges – amongst them:
Meeting expectations of customers in the digital age
Finding and keeping the people who can digitally transform an organisation
Managing the omni-channel reality
Those leading the Digital–charge can come from any industry from retail and manufacturing to travel and financial services.
The rise of small firms competing in the financial services technology sector has been often been as a result of smaller organisations being more digitally focused and not held back by the constraints of larger firms.
The following areas are just some of those that we actively follow and look to build our networks within:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
Big Data and Analytics
Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers
Cloud Computing
Internet of Things (IoT)
FinTech
InsurTech
WealthTech
RegTech
Digital is still a relatively immature arena and many roles in the digital field are still being defined. The potential advantages and risks involved in digital transformation make resources highly sought-after.
All the roles we have successfully worked on recently have incorporated at least an element of Digital delivery often driven by the goal of becoming a ‘digital by default’ organisation.
European Market
McCabe & Barton have a successful European division headed up by Nic Simic.
Nic is tri-lingual; speaking English, French and Spanish fluently, he has worked in IT recruitment for nearly 20 years and has previously set up recruitment offices in both Geneva and Zurich.
Currently working for large prestigious clients in Switzerland, France and Benelux, McCabe & Barton Europe specialise on contract and permanent roles within IT and Business Transformations. The types of areas we are currently working on range from helpdesk, old mainframe technologies cobol/cics DB2 to C# .net,
Scala technologies via BA / PM’s and risk compliance experts in EU including regulatory mifid, SOX.
Finrec - A Flexible Recruitment Solution
We are more than a traditional recruitment company; we also offer a flexible outsourced, bespoke recruitment (or recruitment and HR if required) service for companies who do not wish to hire a full time HR and / or recruitment person.
We offer an outsourced, bespoke recruitment and on-boarding service in which we will take responsibility for;
Presentation of candidates/ shortlists and market mapping in case of executive and senior search
Diary management and interview arranging
On-boarding and vetting of new staff
Diversity and inclusion recruitment
Additional services that we offer include:
Advisory
Recruitment Strategy
Planning & forecasting
Job families / specifications
Organisation & design
Career planning
Sustainable succession planning
Talent management
Capability Matrix definition (in conjunction with job specifications above)
Competency-based interviewing against capability matrix
Objective-setting
Culture change
Technical tests
Psychometric testing
Interim HR services
How we do it:
We will appoint an experienced relationship manager to work closely with your hiring managers
They will spend time on site: - working with your team to understand your culture, your requirements, your hiring strategy and the screening required to be able to represent you as your own team would.
We will prepare and agree specs with the hiring managers. The supporting team (in M&B’s offices) will then scour the market to source the strongest candidates.
M&B will sift, interview, technically test and present a short list of candidates for you to interview
The process will be as structured or as fluid as you wish it to be – we will work the way you want us to work