About Us

A Steele Associates (ASASS) was established in June 1998 and offers thirty years experience in the conduct of Search Assignments across a wide range of general and senior management disciplines in sales, marketing, credit management, operations, 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 had extensive experience in UK mortgage lending since 1987 both in prime and sub-prime markets. Although our main business service is Search we, after gaining the trust of Clients and in order to maintain continuity, have provided a consultancy service for the hiring of large volumes of people into processing and/or administration functions.

We continue to work with a wide range of lending businesses as well as intermediaries, brokers, ratings agencies, investment banks, retail banks, consumer finance houses, life insurance companies, commercial insurance brokers, re-insurance companies and investment managers. 


We  also worked extensively from May 2000 to April 2009 with CPA Global the market leader in legal process outsourcing solutions and intellectual property asset management and servicing.

More recently we have developed a regionally orientated service, not generally available outside the recognised larger city business communities, to provide a more diverse range of Clients with a high quality and cost-efficient professional Search resource enabling them to identify key individuals in all management disciplines.

 As the markets begin to recover there will be an even greater need for experienced candidates in key positions. 

However there  is a common misconception that recruiting through and out of recession is easy as it is a 'buyers' market. 

Not so because In reality the quality candidates are unlikely to be out on the streets or actively on the market so there will be an even greater need for a  bespoke dedicated service to proactively identify the right individuals.