Tag: Senior Manager
Could it be? A sector with bigger bonuses, rising salaries and prolific job creation
If job creation has been positive within Ireland’s funds industry in 2011, the next six months look set to be even better – 1,000 new roles have been predicted. What’s more pay is on the up and companies are even paying (whisper it) bonuses. Is all this too good to be true? Recruiters Marks Sattin’s [...]
The new hot skill-set: ETF fund accounting
The European exchange-traded funds (ETF) market was one of the growth stories of 2010. In the City of London, the existing players (and some new kids on the block) were all looking to gain a bigger slice of the market and poaching relatively scarce talent away from one another. But Ireland has also benefited from [...]
Unexpected areas of recruitment within Ireland’s funds industry
Ireland’s funds industry is recruiting again, but not in the areas you might expect. State Street’s Irish operation has only recently filed its 2009 annual report, which shows that – despite an overall period of retraction for the industry – it increased headcount by 171. Average pay per head did, however, fall from €83.1k in [...]
Banks beginning to hire for SME lending teams
Ongoing governmental calls for Irish banks to increase their lending to the small and medium enterprises (SME) sector appears to have had some affect – firms are beginning to recruit in this area. According to recruitment sources close to the situation, Bank of Ireland and KBC Bank Ireland are currently making enquiries about the possibility [...]
More cost-cutting to come at AIB, but jury still out on redundancies
Financially, the outlook at Allied Irish Banks could barely be bleaker, with the bank last week reporting a pre-tax loss of €2.66bn (2.4bn) for 2009 and a tripling of its bad debts. Yet, while managing director Colm Doherty has been bullish about continuing “aggressive cost-cutting”, recruiters are divided as to whether this well mean massive [...]
Irish banks building teams in preparation for NAMA
The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) may have unveiled some key appointments in the last couple of weeks, but it’s also spurring healthy levels of recruitment within Ireland’s banks ahead of the agency going live. As the banks start to work through the implications of NAMA, they’ve been compelled to add to their ranks, say [...]
Management consultants seek finance talent (must have GSOH)
Ireland’s management consultancy firms have started wooing the country’s small pool of finance talent. They could have a battle on their hands. Accenture is hiring. So are Deloitte, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Unsurprisingly, Gavin Maxwell, senior manager at Accenture, says Dublin is a candidate-driven market (ie, there are more jobs than candidates). “New job opportunities are [...]
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