UK
Sector: Accounting & Finance
Investment banks in Australia thirsty for junior accountants
Investment banks operating in Australia need financial controllers, management accountants, financial accountants, and people with Sarbanes-Oxley experience, and they are pulling out all the stops to get them. This is the verdict of recruiters active in the sector. “To say we need accountants here is an understatement,” says Elizabeth Warren, an associate director at Michael [...]
IT and accounting careers go off the boil with university graduates
Every year High Fliers Research, a UK research company, asks over fifteen thousand final year students at the country’s top universities what they plan to do after graduating. Responses for 2005 make interesting reading: they show an 8% reduction in the number of students interested in accountancy careers and a 9% drop in students aspiring [...]
Accounting a yes, investment banking a maybe for older grads
Graduate recruitment schemes are usually the preserve of 20-something university leavers. This could be about to change. The European Union’s new age discrimination legislation is due to become law in the UK by December 2006. When it happens, financial services employers may be obliged to open trainee programmes to mature students and people who graduated [...]
A good relocation depends on your negotiation skills
You live in London and you’ve just been offered two jobs: one in Paris and the other in Milan. The jobs pay the same, but the firm in Milan offers relocation benefits, while the one in Paris does not. How hard will your wallet be hit if you take the job without relocation benefits? Whether [...]
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