Oxwana's financial services practice is built around the markets where finance intersects with industrial development. Commercial banks operating across Africa and Asia, development finance institutions, project finance teams, and the financial services businesses that support the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors we know well.
This is a deliberately focused area of practice. We are not a generalist financial services recruiter. We are a recruiter with deep industrial sector knowledge who understands the financial structures, project finance, commodity finance, trade finance, that sit behind the assets and businesses we work with every day.
The development finance dimension
One of the most underserved talent markets in global finance is the development finance and blended finance space. DFIs, MDBs, and impact investors are scaling their investment programmes in Africa and Asia at a rate that their internal talent pipelines cannot keep up with. The professionals who can originate, structure, and manage complex infrastructure or natural resource investments in frontier markets are in short supply everywhere.
Oxwana has the sectoral depth and the network to identify these candidates. We understand what DFIs are looking for because we understand the projects they are financing.
Commercial banking in growth markets
Beyond development finance, we work with commercial banks expanding their footprint across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Country-level leadership, corporate banking heads, trade finance specialists, and treasury professionals in markets where the talent competition is intense and the reward for getting a key hire right is significant.
Where we work
Africa is our primary financial services market, with particular strength in East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. We also work across the Middle East, where sovereign wealth funds and regional banks are significant employers in the infrastructure and energy sectors we cover.
Services relevant to banking and finance businesses
- Executive Search: for Country CEOs, Investment Directors, Head of Corporate Banking, and DFI leadership mandates
- Talent Advisory: for financial institutions planning their workforce around expanding investment programmes
- Embedded and Fractional Teams: for banks entering new markets who need senior TA capacity
- Total Talent Solutions: for larger financial services businesses managing hiring across multiple markets