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Guest comment: The CFA charter is the gold standard
John Bowman, CFA head of educational products tells us why having ‘Chartered Financial Analyst’ (CFA) after your name will make all the difference to your career. While supervising the examination in Los Angeles last Saturday, it struck me how much growth the CFA Program has experienced in the last decade. Over 126,000 candidates in more [...]
Ireland’s finance pros feel the pressure
Are you stressed and overworked? You’re not the only one. One in three finance professionals in Ireland are stressed at work thanks to growth in the sector and ever-increasing workloads, new research has found. While the amount of work on their plate is the main cause of this stress, other factors nearby on the table [...]
The Luxxies are coming to town
A growing number of Luxembourg’s fund specialists are opting to develop their careers in Dublin. Why? At first sight, Dublin doesn’t have much to offer over its Continental European rival. With a massive €1.7 trillion in assets under management, Luxembourg stands head and shoulders above its Irish rival, which managed a ‘mere’ €653bn of assets [...]
Bring on the Chinese
There are plenty of Polish people already working in Ireland’s financial services sector. They could soon be joined by Indians and Chinese. Why? The government is considering fast-tracking visas for non-EU financial workers to address the skills gap in the financial services sector. Fast-tracking measures already exist for various occupations in healthcare, construction and ICT [...]
Analyse this…
With Irish assets under management expanding, senior equity analysts are a hot topic – but only if they’ve worked somewhere else. Fideuram Asset Management, a subsidiary of Italian banking group Sanpaolo IMI, is bulking up its Irish business and hiring equity analysts as part of its recruitment drive. It’s not the only one: Bank of [...]
Fund accountants hard to find
Experienced Irish fund accountants are becoming as rare as leprechauns and tax-paying rock stars. Over 70 per cent of respondents to a recent survey by Deloitte’s Fund Administration Service said that managing internal growth was the biggest challenge now facing the industry. The Irish funds industry has trebled in the last five years. It now [...]
Battle raging over accountants
Ireland has become a key battleground in the war for accounting talent as an increasing number of multinationals, banks and accountancy compete for staff. “There are a lot of companies that have brought their accounting processing centres to Ireland, such as Google, Yahoo, Symantec and Baxter,” said Susan Cox, managing director of Coxfitzsimons&wilkes in Dublin. [...]
Poorer on pay, bigger on life
Irish investment banks are competing for staff by offering candidates a better work-life balance and fringe benefits, recruitment experts say. “Pay at Irish banks is pretty much on a par with foreign institutions but Irish banks traditionally have excellent benefits, such as their pension contributions, flexible working time and VHI (Voluntary Health Insurance),” said Siobhan [...]
Battle of the sexes
A huge pay divide exists between men and women in Ireland’s financial sector, according to the latest salary survey carried out by recruitment consultancy Robert Half Finance & Accounting. On average, female financial workers earn almost €20,000 less than their male counterparts, with the average salary for male finance professionals lying at €62,320 compared to [...]
Fortis fortifies jobs
The midlands town of Athlone is set to get a welcome jobs boost with the announcement that An Post is launching a new retail bank with Belgian financial services company Fortis. The new bank will employ 250 people to start with, rising to 500 within five years. 120 people currently working in An Post’s two [...]
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