Our Team

Our Team – Virtue Consulting

Virtue are specialists in the banking and financial services industry.

Our clients and candidates appreciate knowing the time they invest with us helps build a solid business relationship with experienced team members, using a consultative and bespoke approach to recruitment. We use our specialist industry knowledge and contacts to get the best outcomes for you.

We believe in a work/life balance, flexibility, open communication and enjoying what we do.

View our current vacancies here or get to know our team a little bit better below.

Chris Heswall

Chris established Virtue Consulting in July 2004, so has over 20 years of candidate networks and relationship connections with industry decisions makers across banking and financial services markets.

For over 30 years, Chris has been filling recruitment mandates and offering career advice to Financial Services Industry professionals across New Zealand and Australia.

Chris operates uses an open, honest and upfront approach when working with Clients and Candidates and specializes in search, sourcing and candidate assessment for a range of mandates from mid-level sales and relationship roles, up to senior management positions.

When not in the Virtue office, Chris can be found out on the harbour fishing or boating, or on the golf course when he gets the chance, and you can follow him at @kiwirecruiter on Instagram to keep up with the play.

Collette Gascoigne-Spittle

After an extensive sales and relationship career within the insurance and motor industries, Collette has been successfully consulting in the recruitment industry since 2009.

Having returned home from the UK to New Zealand in 2011 (where she worked with a large global recruitment brand in London) Collette brings experience, energy, and commitment to the Virtue team.

Collette manages a Hybrid desk with her main focus being on permanent recruitment.  She works across graduate roles through to mid-level executive roles.  Her areas of specialities include sales, asset finance, wealth, compliance, operations, clients services and credit.

Collette has been with Virtue Consulting for 9 years in October 2022 and we can’t imagine the office without her – Great work Collette!

Collette is an avid cyclist who rides on a regular basis.