Executive search in private banking, practised as a craft.

Most executive search firms cover private banking among a dozen other industries. We do the opposite. Hunkar Finance was created by the industry, for the industry: our founder comes from the banking world, with more than fifteen years spent accompanying UHNW clients across banking and private markets. We recruit for private banks, external asset managers and family offices in Geneva and Zurich — and along the international corridor our clients actually work: Luxembourg, Monaco, Dubai, Singapore.

“Placing a candidate is a craft. Revealing the alchemy between a talent and an institution is an art.”

Who we place

• Senior Private Bankers and Relationship Managers — Swiss Onshore, Middle East, LatAm, European and CIS markets
• Team Heads and desk heads — including entire teams moving together, on platforms prepared to welcome them
• Market leaders — heads of private banking, heads of location, senior management
• The key talents around the banker — investment specialists, wealth planners, senior compliance officers

Our current mandates are published on hunkarfinance.ch — the best seats, as every banker knows, are never advertised.

A deliberately reversed approach

The industry’s habit is to start from the mandate and look for a banker who fits. We start from the banker. Your objectives first — then the seats that serve them. The accompaniment is complete: salary negotiation handled for you, a personalised follow-up after engagement, coaching whenever useful.

And one principle that changes everything: we are rewarded on the candidate’s success — not at hiring. Our interest and yours point in the same direction, from the first conversation to long after the contract is signed.

The Swiss market, spoken in numbers

Switzerland remains the world’s reference for cross-border wealth management, and the war for proven bankers has rarely been this open. For senior private bankers, the mandates we handle typically carry base salaries of CHF 250,000–400,000, with total compensations reaching CHF 1 million and beyond. What decides a move is rarely the number alone: portability of the book, multi-booking capabilities, credit appetite, open architecture, and a management that grants the time to build — these are the questions we put on the table before any introduction.

Confidentiality is not a promise

It is the DNA of the house. Mandates are handled discreetly, conversations stay between us, and nothing moves without your explicit agreement. We work with the leaders of the market — they expect nothing less.