Ambition is a boutique recruitment firm operating in sales & marketing, finance & accounting, and banking & financial services. It has offices in London, Hong Kong, Australia, and Singapore. Ambition specializes in sourcing professionals for investment management firms, private equity firms, hedge funds, and other financial organizations. It offers recruitment solutions from entry-level to board level across various disciplines including operations, finance, risk & compliance, and change management.

1. About Ambition
Ambition is a leading, boutique recruitment business operating within Sales & Marketing, Finance
& Accounting and Banking & Financial Services.
Previously called Witan Jardine, we are part of the Ambition Group, a specialist recruitment firm
with complementary international offices covering Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
We are perfectly positioned to offer you the best mobile talent in London and internationally,
leveraging our extensive business relationships across these important business hubs.

2. Our Specialist Areas
Our Investment Management Division has been established for over 30 years and we specialise in sourcing industry
professionals across multi-disciplines into London’s Investment community. We can confidently claim to be amongst the
market leaders due to our reputation amongst clients and the long term relationships we have successfully developed
over the years.
Key organisations that we supply contract, permanent and interim solutions to:
Private Equity Custodians
Real Estate Investment Venture Capital
Hedge Funds Fund of Funds
Asset Management Investment Trusts
Wealth Management
What we offer:
Consultative expertise offering recruitment solutions from entry to Board level.
In depth Asset Management recruitment knowledge across each specialism, adding value with market intelligence and salary benchmarking.
Sourcing, identifying and tracking both the active and passive candidate market through advanced search methodologies and
technological tools.
International network to source mobile talent.

3. Specialist Disciplines we cover:
Operations
Settlements; Reconciliations; Corporate Actions; Pricing & Valuations; Client Reporting; Cash Management;
Data Management; KYC/AML Compliance; Trade Support; Fund Administration; Client Services; Performance &
Risk; Fund Managers Assistant; Portfolio Analysis, Client Onboarding, Transitions, Oversight, Assistant Fund
Managers
Finance
Part Qualified and Fully Qualified Accountants; Fund Accountants; Financial Planning & Analysis; MI reporting;
Business Partnering; Regulatory reporting; Financial Control; Legal entity reporting
Risk & Compliance
Investment Risk; Portfolio Risk; Operational Risk; CRO, Counterparty Risk; Head of Monitoring; Compliance
Manager; Credit Risk Analysts
Change Management
Business Analysts; Project Managers; Programme Managers; Business Architects, Business Process re-engineers
Marketing
Communication Managers; Full Marketing Mix positions; RFP Managers/writers; Business Development
Managers; Product Managers, PR Managers, Internal Communications, CSR

4. Your Dedicated Account Managers
Rajdeep Kandola Andrew Hindley Una Ward
Senior Consultant, Accounting & Finance Consultant, Accounting & Finance Divisional Manager, Senior Finance
Temporary, Contract & Interim Roles Permanent, Temporary, Contract & Permanent Roles
Interim Roles
Raj is a Senior Consultant within our Temporary Una is a Business graduate who joined
Finance division. Since graduating from the Working within the Finance team, Andrew is Ambition (Witan Jardine at the time) in 2006.
University of Warwick in 2005, Raj has specialised an Investment Management Accountancy Her experience is a hybrid of contingent and
in placing senior temporary and contract specialist recruiter with five years’ recruitment search assignments within Core Finance across
accounting staff within the London Investment experience within IT and Finance. With a broad Asset Management and Hedge Funds . She has
Management market with specific market focus across Fund Management Andrew has built a solid track record of delivering high quality
coverage focusing on asset management, hedge strong relationships within the London market solutions to each mandate and the degree of
funds, real estate, private equity and third party and currently works with a diverse portfolio of her knowledge and the personal commitment
administrators. Asset Management, Global Custody, Hedge Fund that she demonstrates allows her to excel in her
Management and Private Equity organisations market.
E: rajdeep.kandola@ambition.co.uk on their permanent, temporary and contract
T: 0207 430 7268 recruitment. E: una.ward@ambition.co.uk
T: 0207 430 7254
E: andrew.hindley@ambition.co.uk
Bernie Quail Massimo Manfrinato Naseem Sadiq
Senior Consultant, Operations Senior Consultant, Operations Consultant, Operations
Permanent Roles Temporary, Contract & Interim Roles Temporary, Contract & Interim Roles
Bernie has been recruiting experienced Mass has over ten years’ recruitment experience Naseem has over four years’ experience within
operations staff since 1999 from graduate level placing operations candidates within Investment Financial Services Recruitment with a focus on
to VP. For contingency assignments Bernie Management Firms, Hedge Funds and Investment Management Temporary/Contract
adopts search methodologies to provide clients Custodians. Mass has built fantastic relationships recruitment. Naseem started his career working
exclusive candidates. with his clients over the years which is largely at Gartmore Investment Managers within the
down to his expert knowledge and the vast operations team so brings an in-depth knowledge
network of top talent he has established which of the workings of an operations environment
E: bernie.quail@ambition.co.uk ensure he always delivers. and accompanied with his recruitment
T: 0207 430 7244 experience makes him a specialist in the
Investment Management market.
E: massimo.manfrinato@ambition.co.uk
T: 0207 430 7286 E: naseem.sadiq@ambition.co.uk
T: 0207 430 7257

5. Your Dedicated Account Managers
Jean-Pierre Green Lucie Pychova Liz Dale
Associate Director Senior Consultant, Market Risk Senior Consultant, Credit Risk
Permanent Roles Permanent Roles Permanent Roles
JP has over twelve years’ specialist recruitment Lucie is an Economics graduate from UCL with Liz is a Senior Consultant within our Credit Risk /
experience in leading organisations in the UK, seven years’ recruitment experience (including Analysis Risk team, she comes with over
Australia and Asia. He joined Ambition in 2007 search), and specific expertise in market risk, ten years’ recruitment experience in the UK and
Europe. Her background in recruitment has
and recently transferred from the Singapore quantitative analytics and investment risk. focused on recruitment to Retail Credit Risk,
office to head up Risk and Finance Permanent Lucie has managed a number of international Investment banking Credit Risk and Investment
recruitment in the UK. His focus is on Compliance mandates and has a solid track record of Management Risk.
and Operational Risk recruitment across the delivering high quality solutions for European
Banking & Financial Services market place, financial services organisations, including E: liz.dale@ambition.co.uk
including Asset Management and Hedge Funds. Investment Banks, Asset Managers, Hedge Funds
& Brokers. T: 0207 430 7237
E: jean-pierre.green@ambition.co.uk
T: 0207 400 6623 E: lucie.pychova@ambition.co.uk
T: 0207 430 7246
Phil Lane Mark Lee Michael Brimblecombe
Senior Consultant, Market Risk, Credit Consultant, Property Finance Consultant, Change Management
Risk,Operational Risk Permanent Roles Interim Roles
Temporary, Contract & Interim Roles
Mark has five years’ recruitment experience Michael has over four years’ experience of recruiting
Phil has specialised in finance and risk for and focuses on recruiting ACA / ACCA and Change Management professionals. He specialises
over six years, delivering tailored solutions to CIMA qualified finance staff specifically into in supplying Programme Managers, Project
a diverse client base with an excellent track Managers, Business Analysts and PMO staff into a
the property marketplace. Mark recruits for real
record of high performance. Prior to joining number of financial services organisations including
estate investment companies, property managers Investment Banks, Asset Managers, Brokers and
Ambition, Phil worked for a large multinational and property developers, he has a keen interest
recruitment agency along with smaller boutique Hedge Funds.
in the sector and represents candidates with
consultancies, maintaining a consistent approach
relevant industry experience.
throughout, built on delivering an honest, simple E: michael.brimblecombe@ambition.co.uk
and personal service. T: 0207 430 7273
E: mark.lee@ambition.co.uk
E: phil.lane@ambition.co.uk T: 0207 430 7252
T: 0207 400 6624
Lisa Kay
Consultant, Sales & Marketing
Temporary, Contract & Interim Roles
Lisa has over four years’ temporary recruitment
experience. Her focus is placing marketing
professionals from executive to director level in
temporary and fixed term contracts within the
Investment management market. She works with
a range of businesses in the sector including the
small boutique Investment houses through to the
larger Institutional Investment firms.
E: lisa.kay@ambition.co.uk
T: 0207 430 7234