Sector: Accounting & Finance

This is where you should be working, bank by bank, market by market

If you aspire to work for a bank that’s the global market leader in your product area, but for some reason are ignorant as to which bank that is, we have the answers. Derived from figures from analysts at JPMorgan, who last week released a detailed analysis of each banks’ revenues, by product, for 2010 [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 4 April 2011 • 12 comments

GUEST COMMENT: Product controllers are the new internationally mobile banking professionals

All the major financial institutions in Singapore are once again hiring experienced product controllers, with volumes back to pre-crisis levels at some banks. Most large European and American investment banks currently have around 20 to 30 vacancies in this specialist accounting area at any one time. Post global financial crisis, the standard of technical knowledge [...]

By Chris Jay, 4 August 2010 • 6 comments

GUEST COMMENT: I asked the CEO to help me move out of the middle office

I’m a recent graduate. I have stellar academic qualifications and am passionate about becoming a trader. Unfortunately, however, I currently reside in the darkest shadows of the middle office. Even worse, I am located in a non-front office building, making it extremely difficult to network, and almost impossible to meet anyone not doing something very [...]

By City Kid, 21 July 2010 • 32 comments

How to dress up your middle office CV for a move into the front office

So you work somewhere in the middle office (risk/finance/trade support), and you want to work somewhere in the front office (sales/trading/structuring)? What do you need to do to your CV to make this happen? Firstly, a qualifying point. It is not that easy to move into the front office from a middle office role. It [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 10 June 2010 • 7 comments

Four middle office jobs which may allow you to become a trader

If you want to go into trading, but you didn’t manage to get a position as a trader straight out of university, you may be feeling a little thwarted. Most banks hire fewer MBAs into sales and trading positions than into M&A or capital markets, so it can be difficult to ride the top business [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 23 March 2010 • 23 comments

Accountants like gold dust in South Africa

South Africa’s unemployment rate stands at 23.5% and is rising as the economic slowdown takes hold. Those who do have jobs are increasingly resigned to flat salaries and in some cases pay cuts. But qualified chartered accountants defy the trend: not only are they guaranteed a job but they can demand high salaries and two-figure [...]

By Nicol Degli Innocenti, 26 June 2009 • 21 comments