Associate Recruiter, Finance & Accounting
Hoxton Circle
Santa Monica, CA0–2 yrs1h agovia LinkedIn
About the Role
Hoxton Circle is hiring an Associate Recruiter, Finance & Accounting. This is a full-desk, consultative search role focused on executive-level Finance & Accounting positions. The role is based in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, with 4 days per week in office.
The Opportunity
- Run a full-desk, consultative search business focused on Finance & Accounting and executive-level roles.
- Work directly with CFOs, Controllers, VPs of Finance, PE backed leadership teams, and senior finance professionals across Los Angeles.
- Gain autonomy and support to build a desk that is genuinely yours.
Key Responsibilities
- Building and deepening a high-quality network across Finance & Accounting at the executive level.
- Owning searches end-to-end: discovery, strategy, execution, close.
- Creating opportunities through proactive outreach and real market intelligence.
- Co-brokering placements with senior peers and sharing insight.
- Operating like a business owner within the firm, with autonomy and accountability.
Who We're Looking For
- Demonstrable intelligence. Ability to articulate how you've worked through hard problems.
- Real curiosity and commercial instinct.
- A hunter mentality and the work ethic to sustain it.
- Resilience and the appetite to build a desk from scratch.
- Adaptability to learn and own systems, processes, and data integrity standards.
- This suits people relatively early in their working lives, whether a year or two out of university or making an early move into recruitment from another commercial field.
- Recruitment experience is welcome but not required. If present, it counts when accompanied by current drive.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- No specific technologies or tools are mentioned in the text.
Qualifications
- No formal educational qualifications are explicitly stated as requirements.
Compensation
- Base salary + uncapped commission.
- Year one OTE of $125,000+, with meaningful upside depending on experience.
- Earning power that grows well beyond year one.
Culture
- High trust, low ego.
- Collaborative, co-brokered model.
- Transparent metrics and a meritocracy.
- Hybrid model: 3-4 days a week in the Santa Monica office.