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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 [...]
Is it all over for consultancy hiring at the Big Four?
For many working in financial services, the ongoing (and sizable) recruitment within the Big Four professional services has provided a rare beacon of hope within an otherwise bleak recruitment landscape. However, if the European Commission’s proposals, compiled by internal market and services commissioner Michel Barnier, to break up the four largest accountancy firms are implemented, [...]
IT security jobs are both bulletproof and more lucrative
In the current climate, only roles that banks can justifiably claim to be essential are likely to receive sign off from the powers that be. Step forward the role of the information security professional. In September, it was reported that Goldman Sachs was the victim of a hacking attack, when Lloyd Blankfein’s (and 80 other [...]
More and more students are applying to be accountants – but not in Reading and Southampton
It’s an indication of the toughness of the times when students apply in droves to Big Four accountancy firms. Increased competition for graduate roles with accountants is particularly bad news for people who’ve been unsuccessful in their attempts to get a job in an investment bank. Completing an ACA training programme with a Big Four [...]
Lunchtime Links: In this market, your job will be safe only if you are working for a continental European bank in its home country
As Dexia is backstopped by French and Belgian governments (again), banking leaders have been standing up at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 16th Annual Banking & Insurance CEO Conference in London and saying what they think is coming next for their businesses. As finance blogger Ian Fraser points out, this is precisely the conference [...]
Professional financial services investigators are wanted to earn large six figure packages
The FSA is already struggling to hold on to staff, but it’s a little ironic that new, more lucrative, jobs created within consultancies working on external investigations on behalf of the regulator could see yet more people depart. Both Big Four and more niche consultancies are building their risk and regulation teams ahead of an [...]
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 [...]
Lunchtime Links: 25-30 interesting private equity jobs coming soon to Moscow! 75-100 hedge fund admin jobs coming soon to Dublin!
Lots of jobs are coming soon. They are not coming to London, however. Firstly, a once in a lifetime opportunity will soon arise to work for Dmitry Medvedev and – by implication – Vladimir Putin. Medvedev is reportedly setting up a $10bn private equity fund and will be wanting 25-30 investment managers to work for [...]
It looks like investment banks are going to start sponsoring students through university
Given the imminent increase in cost of attending a UK university, particularly if you earn 40k plus immediately post graduation, it seems inevitable that banks will start sponsoring students through their studies. No banks are prepared to commit publicly to sponsoring students yet. But the head of graduate recruitment at one European bank confirms it’s [...]
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