Meet
Skillful
- Our specialisms
- 01Credit Risk
- 02Data Science
- 03Analytics
- 04Technology
Recruitment done properly is rare. We built Skillful because we knew there was a better way.
With years in the industry, enough to know what good looks like, and enough to have seen what it looks like when it goes wrong. That experience shapes everything we do, from the way we listen to candidates to how we advise clients on a brief.
We specialise in analytics and technology: Credit Risk, Data Science, Marketing Analytics and Regulatory Reporting.
Niche areas where the right fit really matters and where a recruiter who knows the space makes all the difference.
Moving jobs is stressful. Hiring is hard. Whether you're a candidate taking a big next step or a client building something, we're here to make it feel a lot less daunting and a lot more human.
What we cover
More on each specialism →Industries
The markets we live in
Credit Risk & Modelling
Modellers · Validation · Portfolio strategy · Heads of risk
IRB, IFRS 9, scorecards and portfolio strategy — the roles where a model owner and a model validator are not interchangeable.
We hire across the model lifecycle for banks, building societies and lenders of every size: PD/LGD/EAD development, monitoring and validation, affordability and collections strategy, plus the leadership above them. We can tell a rebuild from a recalibration on a CV, which is why our shortlists are short.
Decision Science & Analytics
Decision science · Pricing · Customer insight · MI
Commercial analytics that actually changes a decision — pricing, customer, campaign and portfolio.
From first analytics hire to a team of twenty. SAS, SQL, Python and increasingly dbt — but we brief on the business question first, because the tooling follows the problem and not the other way round.
Data Science & AI
Data scientists · ML engineers · Research leads
Applied science in regulated settings, where explainability matters as much as accuracy.
Fraud, propensity, forecasting, NLP and the model-risk governance that has to wrap around them. We are candid with clients about what the market pays and candid with candidates about what a role really involves day to day.
Data & Technology Engineering
Data engineers · Backend · Cloud & platform · Architects
The platforms and services everything above depends on, and the engineers who keep them honest.
Pipelines, warehouses and the backend services around them — Python, Java, Scala, Spark, Snowflake, AWS and Azure. Contract and permanent, individual hires and small squads.
Regulatory Reporting & Governance
Reg reporting · Stress testing · Model risk · Compliance
COREP, FINREP, stress testing and model risk — scarce skills with very little margin for a mis-hire.
A small, well-networked market where the right person is usually not looking. This is where a specialist search beats a job advert, and where most of our unadvertised mandates sit.
Who we work with
Live roles
Roles we're working on now
A live board, not an archive. If nothing here fits, send your CV anyway — a good half of what we work on never reaches this page.
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