Jacob has over 20 years of financial services recruitment experience, with the past 18 years assisting clients across Asia Pacific with appointing senior infrastructure/middle office staff. After graduating from Newcastle University in Australia with a degree in Environmental Science, Jacob spent two years in London providing recruitment services to investment banks and fund managers across a broad range of finance disciplines. In 2003 Jacob returned to Sydney to focus on financial services recruitment within the Asia Pacific region, and managing a multi-discipline recruitment division covering recruitment into risk, compliance, law, sales, marketing and corporate advisory.

Jacob founded JS Careers in 2011 as a result of client demand for a senior specialist recruitment firm with deep experience in technical markets. His recruitment strategy has involved partnering with high profile Australian and international financial services organisations, and running bespoke recruitment campaigns to identify technical skill sets and high performing professionals from manager to MD level appointments. 

Jacob specialises in recruitment across the disciplines of: Compliance, operational risk, market risk, credit risk, internal audit, and law.