About A Steele Associates
ASASS was established in June 1998 and offers over thirty five years experience in the conduct of assignments across a wide range of general and senior management disciplines in credit management, operations, sales, marketing, administration/support and technology within the financial services and B2B services industries. Our expertise has developed particularly in the identification of individuals for start-ups or re-organisations and the subsequent culture development and change processes.
Specifically we have extensive experience in UK mortgage lending spanning the original MBS central lending businesses to sub prime lenders and latterly start-up fintech disruptor lenders in BTL, Bridging, 2nd Charge etc and related funding and servicing markets. Although our main business service is Search at C suite and senior managment operating levels we, after gaining the trust of Clients and in order to maintain continuity, also provide a consultancy service to manage the hiring of large volumes of people into underwriting, processing and/or administration, sales/telesales and business development functions.
Start-up skill sets and the necessary drive, dedication, pragmatism, flexibility and attitude of mind are the same regardless of industry or sector so our experience is and has been, readily transferable outside of consumer finance.
Although we continue to work with fintech lenders, in start and scale ups, we are in our 10th year of being a contracted PSL provider for Infosys BPM working on a wide range of UK/Europe BPO roles and operating levels including sales/marketing, influencer analyst relations, customer success and procurement /supply chain consultancy.
We are also a UK/Europe partner of EER Global www.eerglobal.com, handling multi-disciplinary assignments in a range of SAAS business disciplines, again largely in institutional or PE funded start-ups, in sales marketing, customer success, project management, big data and behavourial analytics, BPO, telecomms/mobile working on assignments in UK, EMEA, US and Far East.
ASASS is essentially a sole practitioner business that is of course technology aided but not technology dependent as we are of the firm belief that the current trend towards recruitment ‘by bot’ maybe effective for high volume process driven needs, but is really not a viable option for key hirings. It is the talent identification, thorough interview and assessment of skill sets match to Client needs and culture that is critical and absolutely where ASASS in-depth knowledge and experience adds value to the process and provides a timely sensibly priced ROI solution in all aspects of their and all associated relationships.
ASASS works closely with Fortrum www.fortrum.com the specialist due diligence, analytics and advisory company. We draw on our established network and our deep experience of the UK mortgage and consumer finance markets to provide Fortrum with the depth and range of specialist experience and expertise it demands to deliver its high quality, valued services. At the same time, through our association, we provide experienced underwriters, servicing specialists and other mortgage and consumer finance professionals with a wide range of opportunities to apply their skills on a variety of projects.
ASASS are partnered with Astral Recruitment a UK leading consumer finance/retail banking recruiter.
ASASS operate in an Associate Director function with Barbara Houghton Associates a well established City based banking and financial services recruiter.
ASASS have also undertaken successful assignments in global 24/7 live chat/market research, global semiconductor high end technology design and manufacturing, leisure and hospitality, b2b software services providers and recyclable compostable packaging and UK/European component distribution and logistics solutions.
ASASS also previously worked extensively with CPA Global, now Clarivate, the global market leader in legal process outsourcing solutions, intellectual property asset management and servicing.