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This is where you can still get a summer internship in financial services for 2012
Unbelievably, there are still some summer internships in accountancy and insurance left. Predictably, they’re all at small firms and they all close soon. If you’re still looking for an internship related to financial services for 2012, you might want to try here: Allianz Internship Area – Insurance Location – UK (city not specified) Deadline – Not [...]
Sectors explained – Accounting
Accountants come in various shapes and sizes. If you want to become one, ask yourself where you want to work and what kind of accountant you’d like to be. Within financial services, investment banks hire accountants, as do retail banks, hedge funds, private equity firms, insurance companies and fund managers. Companies in all other sectors [...]
Career case studies: Tax accounting
Laila Shetty graduated from Fordham with an MBA in Accounting/Finance and a Masters in Taxation. She joined Deloitte & Touche as a summer intern in the summer of 2010 and began working there full-time in January, 2011. How did you get where you are today? I was an economics major at Barnard and I’d never even taken an accounting [...]
Accounting firms are hiring massively now and will fire massively later, says the head of recruitment in an investment bank
Banks are firing, accountancy firms are hiring. Accountancy firms are not just hiring in small numbers; they are hiring in huge numbers. Deloitte has declared its intention to hire 68,000 people over the next four years. That’s equivalent to nearly two Goldman Sachs’ worth of employees. This year it hired 49,000 people. PricewaterhouseCoopers is equally [...]
Lunchtime Links: Where can you earn 630k a year and work outside London in a converted mansion with 25 acres, a pool, gym and bar?
Forget Goldman Sachs, which is cutting London salaries and nursing a 38% reduction in its share price since January, think Tudor Capital. The Sunday Times pointed out yesterday that 95 people at the London arm of Tudor Capital shared a payout of 60m in the year to March. 35 of them were ‘senior’ staff who [...]
It’s OK – the Big Four still seem to be hiring thousands of people
While investment banks’ Q2 results announcements have inevitably heralded a new wave of job cuts, Big Four accountancy firms continue to reveal sizable recruitment sprees. Deloitte has just released its annual report and said that it has recruited 3,300 people in the UK to June this year (1,200 of these were graduates or school-leavers). KPMG [...]
Senior IT security professionals have received a 25k uplift in the last year
Information security is an increasingly huge concern for financial services firms. In the last week, Citigroup and the IMF were hacked and this follows a spate of incidences of both internal and external attacks on financial sector companies. Not surprisingly, technologists with the expertise to increase financial services firms’ armour against these attacks are hot [...]
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 [...]
Good reasons to tolerate lower paid work as a consultant in the Big Four
If you are an investment banker, the Big Four accountancy firms are usually seen as another land. And that land is not usually seen as particularly inviting. However, while investment banking recruitment seems to be faltering, recruitment by the Big Four does not. Recruitment by the Big Four is going through the roof. Ernst & [...]
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 [...]
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