Your best banker is one phone call away from leaving. Hiring them was the easy part.
Specialist banking, finance and insurance recruitment across PNG, Australia and the Pacific — helping financial institutions attract, hire and retain the talent their competitors want.
Our expertise in Banking, Finance & Insurance
PNG’s banking and financial services sector is one of the country’s most dynamic — home to established institutions like BSP, Kina Bank, TISA, Nasfund and Nambawan Super, all investing in technology and building local capability. It’s also one of the most competitive places to hire: experienced financial talent is in constant demand, and good people rarely stay on the market for long.
We recruit across banking, finance and insurance — nationals and expatriates, from relationship managers to chief financial officers. Because we’re in Port Moresby, we know who’s moving before the market does, and we understand the regulatory and cultural realities that an offshore recruiter simply can’t.
What We Recruit
Banking
Corporate & retail relationship management, credit & lending, transactional banking, branch and regional leadership
Finance & accounting
Financial controllers, finance business partners, CFOs, Group CFOs and finance executives, financial reporting and IFRS specialists
Finance transformation & technology
Data & analytics, FP&A, core banking and ERP systems, financial-crime and risk technology
Insurance & superannuation
Underwriting, portfolio and claims, fund leadership
Risk, compliance & financial crime
Compliance, risk, internal audit, AML and financial-crime specialists
Executive
C-suite and board appointments for financial institutions
As finance goes digital, the hardest roles to fill sit between finance and technology.
PNG’s financial institutions are modernising fast — core banking systems, digital and mobile banking, data and analytics, financial-crime and AML technology, cyber and regulatory reporting. The professionals who can bridge finance and technology — who understand both the numbers and the systems behind them — are the scarcest talent in the market, and that pool barely exists locally.
This is where a recruiter who only works one market falls short. We combine deep local knowledge of the PNG financial sector with a global talent network — sourcing scarce finance-technology, risk and compliance specialists from across Asia, the Philippines, South Africa, India and beyond, and handling the immigration, employment and payroll to get them on the ground. And because importing talent isn’t a long-term answer, we help you build the local capability behind them.
In this market, keeping people is the other half.
Pay is consistently the biggest reason finance professionals leave — yet most employers set offers without knowing what the market actually pays. In a sector where good people are approached constantly, that’s how you lose them. Every brief we work comes with salary benchmarking built in, drawn from our PNG Salary Guide & Workforce Intelligence Report — so you make the right offer the first time, and keep the people you’ve invested in.
How you work with us
Permanent recruitment
Backed by McQuaig profiling for senior and leadership hires.
Contract & on-hire
For transformations, projects and interim cover.
Executive search
Discreet, market-mapped search for C-suite and board.
Leadership development
Coaching and programs that build and retain your senior people, delivered to PNG financial institutions.
EOR & payroll
Employ and pay expatriate hires compliantly, with or without a PNG entity.
Building local banking capability
PNG’s banks are building national capability deliberately — and so do we. Through graduate programs, structured development and McQuaig-led succession planning, we help you grow the next generation of national banking and finance leaders, not just import them.
Who we work with
Trusted by leading PNG financial institutions
Developing leaders at Kina Bank
We’ve delivered leadership development programs for Kina Bank, helping strengthen leadership capability as the organisation invests in local talent, succession planning and long-term growth.
From our 2026/27 PNG Salary Guide & Workforce Intelligence Report
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45% of employers name uncompetitive salary as the number-one reason people leave — yet only 24% benchmark against the market.
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45% of employers name uncompetitive salary as the number-one reason people leave — yet only 24% benchmark against the market.
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75% of PNG employers cite a lack of local AI and technology expertise as their biggest implementation barrier.
Trusted with the roles that move the numbers.
Finance, banking and leadership appointments across PNG's major institutions, from reporting managers to leadership development.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. We place local and international talent across banking, finance and insurance, and help you meet localisation goals while filling specialist and senior roles.
Hiring in PNG’s most competitive talent market? Let’s make sure you win it.
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