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Here’s how to find hundreds of London financial services jobs that lack applicants AND pay cash bonuses
Rumours continue to reach us of hiring freezes at some investment banks, in some investment banking business areas (markets). If you can’t get a job in a bank, you could always try applying for a financial services consulting job in the Big Four accountancy firms. Last September, Deloitte said it wanted 400 new management consultants [...]
Equity research, management consultancy and FIG: where you could possibly get hired before the end of the year
As a salve for the selection of about recent articles about hiring freezes and redundancies, here’s something more uplifting: an affirmation that there is hiring happening, somewhere. Here’s where: 1) Equity research Yes, there IS hiring in equity research. Financial News today reports that MF Global wants 20 equity analysts ‘across the world’ before the [...]
PricewaterhouseCoopers has got 800 new jobs! At least 34 involve financial services professionals in London
You can judge whether a business is really hiring by its propensity to place very large advertisements soliciting staff in very public places. A Big Four accounting firm currently has an enormous one in Waterloo Station. On cue, PWC has come out today and said it’s got 800 new (non-graduate) jobs to fill in London [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Banks are bursting to hire management consultants
Management consultancy is an industry that’s much maligned and much misunderstood. ‘A consultant is someone who tells you the time after borrowing your watch’ is probably the oldest one in the book. There are plenty of management consultants out there who have deep hands-on experience of working in banking. Many of them have worked with [...]
Hot tip for 2009: Integration accountants
It hasn’t happened yet, but logic suggests it will happen soon: at some point, banks that are merging will need an army of accountants to help integrate their businesses. Current, recent and imminent mergers include RBS and ABN, Nomura and Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and BofA, and (probably) Lloyds and HBOS. Recruiters say RBS and [...]
Citigroup seeks investment consultants
Citibank UK, Citigroup’s wealth management business, is looking to hire a number of investment consultants into its Global Consumer Group in London. Citibank is looking to expand its wealth management business by recruiting qualified consultants or advisors at a range of levels. The bank is looking for candidates with at least five years UK investment [...]
Management consultants add to headcount
Investment bankers aren’t the only people benefiting from the balmy financial services climate. Management consultants are doing very well too. Nicholas Barton, head of the commerce practice at recruitment firm Astbury Marsden, says firms like the Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co., and Booz Allen Hamilton have dramatically increased headcount in their financial services consulting [...]
Banks come up short on Sharia expertise
Financially-literate Islamic scholars are in demand as Western investment banks look to tap into the growing devout Muslim client base. This weekend the Financial Times reported that leading banks are scrambling to find Islamic experts who can issue religious edicts (fatwas) approving new Islamic-compliant financial products. Devout Muslims will only buy instruments approved by recognised [...]
Ratings agencies compete with banks on debt hires
Ratings agencies, such as Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, and Fitch, are looking to add to their structured finance teams. But with banks doing the same, agencies are having to be inventive in how they go about doing it. “Everyone is hiring collateralised debt obligation (CDO) people at the moment,” says Andrew Farr, head of structured [...]
Fund managers fish for analysts
Asset management firms are casting their recruitment nets into new waters when it comes to hiring analysis staff. Petra Rickmeyer, practice director for global financial services recruitment at search firm Hoggett Bowers, says asset managers are increasingly prepared to hire analysts with strategy consulting or industry backgrounds. “Funds are looking to widen their talent pool,” [...]
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