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This sector covers all our financial consultancy jobs and consultancy recruitment. This includes management consultancy roles, trainee consultant jobs, strategy consultancy roles, roles working in the consultancy divisions of accountancy and other professional services firms, regulatory consultancy and opportunities for self-employed individual consultants.

Jobs in consultancy are all about trouble-shooting for companies. Often, a small team of consultants will work within a particular firm, for anything from two weeks to a year, to help solve complex business problems that will improve the bottom line.

Most consultants work across multiple industries, offering advice to some of the world's biggest companies in sectors like energy and industrial, consumer and retail, or banking and financial services.

Within financial services, consultants can advise on a whole range of issues, such as developing a growth strategy, portfolio management, enhancing capital ratios or (increasingly) risk management and regulatory solutions, technological improvements and operational and HR matters.

Much of consultants' work tends to deal with process improvement, or business process engineering. This can include process modelling and mapping, Six Sigma, and business process transformation. As noted above, banks often recruit consultants to help implement technological changes, so IT consultants with knowledge of financial services' IT systems such as Murex and Calypso are also in frequent demand.

Consultants for risk and regulatory solutions will need to be able to advise firms on their relationship with the local financial services regulator and to advise, for example, on capital planning and capital efficient structures in light of new regulations specifying increased capital requirements for banks globally.

Consulting careers within the big consultancy firms tend to be hierarchical. Fresh graduate consultants start out as analysts, before moving up to junior (or associate) consultant, consultant, then case team leader, manager, principal and finally partner.

In many cases, consultants have experience of working directly within the field they are consulting in. However, this is not always the case. Many consultants have an MBA, although this is not a prerequisite. In some cases, the larger strategy consulting firms such as Bain & Company, Boston Consulting and McKinsey & Co. will sponsor employees to take an MBA qualification.

Junior consultancy roles can involve a lot of quantitative work, whereas senior roles are focused on client liaison and selling consultancy services. Consultants typically work as part of small teams within clients' offices.

Skills needed to get a job as a consultant in the finance sector include: a prowess for teamwork, an analytical ability and statistical aptitude, ability to grow and maintain client relationships and powerful reasoning skills.

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Head of Process Change Delivery Michael Page International - China Attractive Package China-Shanghai 17 May 12

You will build and head up the change delivery team to improve the process efficiency.

Team Assistant(Team Reimbursement, Travel booking and Schedule Mgmt ) UBS Securities Market Competitive China-Beijing 16 May 12

The primary role is to provide secretarial and administrative support to UBS IBD Bankers and the team in their...

Healthcare / Consumer Investment VP, Leading Foreign PE, Beijing Michael Page International - China Competitive salary package China-Beijing 15 May 12

Our client is a leading foreign PE firm with good track record on the Healthcare, Consumer and TMT sectors. To...

Senior Associate - Private Equity Michael Page International - China Competitive China-Shanghai 15 May 12

Our client is an international investment fund with a superb track record and reputable Senior Management team...

Venture Capital Senior Associate - TMT Michael Page International - China Competitive base plus carried interest China-Shanghai 15 May 12

Our client is a US-based Venture Capital fund which invests in early stage (pre Series A or Series A) opportun...

Senior Manager, Transactions Integration & Separation Advisory - Ref CHF847 KPMG (China and Hong Kong SAR) Competitive Package China-Shanghai 15 May 12

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing audit, tax, and advisory services, with an industry f...

Assistant Manager / Manager, Business Performance Service, Shanghai / Guangzhou, Ref: CNR916 KPMG (China and Hong Kong SAR) Competitive China-Shanghai 15 May 12

KPMG is recognised as one of China and Hong Kong SAR's leading professional services firms with around 140,000...

Senior Forensic Manager (Beijing & Shanghai) KPMG China Competitive Package China-Shanghai 15 May 12

KPMG is recognised as one of China and Hong Kong SAR's leading professional services firms with nearly 140,000...

Manager / Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management, Beijing / Shanghai - Ref CNR692 KPMG (China and Hong Kong SAR) Competitive Package China-Shanghai 15 May 12

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 150 c...

Director, Transactions Integration & Separation Advisory, Automotive & Industrials, Beijing - Ref CNF848 KPMG (China and Hong Kong SAR) Competitive package China-Beijing 15 May 12

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing audit, tax, and advisory services, with an industry f...

COO - e-commerce - Strong Customer Service and Operations background - Shanghai Randstad Hong Kong Excellent package and benefits China-Shanghai 15 May 12

COO, strong e-commerce experience, Financial / Engineering / Technology background, strong customer service an...

Management Consultant Hays SH RMB 500,001 to RMB 1,000,000 China-Shanghai 14 May 12

Solution-Focused Management Consultant with Global Operations function

Demand Management CITIC Securities Co. Ltd Competitive China-Beijing 14 May 12

CITIC Securities is looking for talent in Demand Management with solid IT experience.

Project Manager CITIC Securities Co. Ltd Competitive China-Beijing 14 May 12

CITIC Securities is looking for project manager with solid experience of multiple large-scale project or prog...

Senior Engineer-CRM Development CITIC Securities Co. Ltd Competitive China-Beijing 14 May 12

CITIC Securities is looking for Senior Engineer-CRM Development.

Senior Engineer - Program - Trading Development CITIC Securities Co. Ltd Competitive China-Beijing 14 May 12

CITIC Securities is looking for Senior Engineer-Program-Trading Development.

Quality Control CITIC Securities Co. Ltd Competitive China-Beijing 14 May 12

CITIC Securities is looking for Quality Control with more than 5 years IT work experience and 2 years of finan...

Senior Manager, Learning H Y Partners Very Competitive China-Shanghai 14 May 12

Renowned international bank seeks high calibre HR professional to spearhead its Learning team, based in Shangh...

Manager – Corporate Advisory/Restructuring FTI Consulting Competitive package China-Shanghai 11 May 12

FTI Consulting is currently seeking a Manager to join our Shanghai office. Ideally, the successful candidate s...

Senior Director and Above level--TMT VC/Growth Fund in BJ ANTAL International Business Consulting (Beijing) Market competitive salary package China-Beijing 04 May 12

Our clients works with world innovation leaders across whole technology spectrum and is regarded as one of the...

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