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Dow Schofield Watts is an award winning independent financial advisory firm operating across corporate finance, due diligence, tax, and business recovery. As the firm continued to scale its advisory offerings, leadership recognized the need to systematically expand and strengthen its partner level talent bench. To support this growth, DSW partnered with AMS to bring structure, market intelligence, and execution discipline to executive hiring. Through a combination of executive talent mapping and targeted search, AMS helped DSW increase partner capacity, improve visibility into the senior advisory market, and build a sustainable leadership pipeline aligned to the firm’s long term growth strategy.
AMS worked with professional services firm DSW to recruit a new cohort of senior leaders, increasing the DSW partnership population by 21%.
“AMS has done what we wanted and more. We’re now extending the existing solution, as well as looking at other areas AMS can help our business thrive… Overwhelmingly professional, very capable, and very supportive. A first-class service.”
– James Dow, CEO
Dow Schofield Watts (DSW) is an award-winning independent financial advisory firm. The business advises on everything from corporate finance, due diligence, to tax and business recovery.
AMS and DSW’s close partnership began when AMS engaged candidates to explore their interest in building their own service offering, supported by the guidance and respected market reputation of the DSW brand.
As part of the AMS and DSW partnership, AMS implemented two key solutions:
Talent mapping
The AMS Executive search team drew on their own experience and networks as well as the expertise of our dedicated insights team to identify a talent map of potential candidates from across consultancies, and boutique firms.
AMS and DSW had weekly cadence calls to go through critical data and AMS delivered in-depth talent market insights monthly reports. This included average tenure, average salaries, geography dispersion, education backgrounds and weekly news articles showing which teams could be more ‘open to a move’.
Executive search
AMS executive search experts worked alongside the DSW TA team to support candidate sourcing, attraction, and engagement of potential candidates. AMS executive search took ownership of moving these candidates through the interview process, as well as starting to create a talent pool to re-engage those individuals who dropped out.
AMS was quickly able to offer an additional, flexible resource when the volumes of candidates being mapped was greater than the current team capacity.
The success of the DSW and AMS partnership was quickly evident and the results, which exceeded expectations, speak for themselves:
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