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McGregor BoyallAsia Pacific
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About UsFor twenty-five years McGregor Boyall has been successfully delivering professional recruitment services to a national and international client base from our London office. We are now bringing the same high levels of service to the Asia Pacific region from our hub in Singapore.
Our core focus is to identify, attract and deliver high quality professionals who can support and enhance their new employer’s corporate objectives.
We deliver recruitment solutions against a wide range of permanent, interim and contract requirements but whilst the roles we resource are diverse and changing, our approach remains simple, consistent and successful. In a marketplace in which effectiveness and value are increasingly prized by both clients and candidates, we believe that the qualities that have sustained our performance in the past will continue to do so in the future.
We have been successful due to the professionalism, sector knowledge and experience of our consultants. It is their commitment to high levels of service and effective delivery that has allowed us to develop a deep, indutry-wide pool of candidates who consistently turn to McGregor Boyall when searching for a new position.
With offices located in Singapore, London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Dubai we have greater global reach to the talent pool across the Asia Pacific, UK & Europe and Middle East regions.
London
Edinburgh
Manchester
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Singapore
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Financial ServicesOur highly experienced, specialist consultants work together with clients to cover a wide range of financial service business disciplines.
The financial services industry has witnessed significant changes over the past decade and will continue to do so in the years ahead. We recognise that dramatic evolution brings with it both challenges and opportunities and believe that our twenty-five year track record of successful delivery into a wide array of financial services organisations has given us the experience and ability to help our clients meet these challenges from a talent acquisition perspective.
From our offices in Singapore, our highly experienced consultants deliver against the demand for talent from a broad range of client sectors:
> Asset / Investment Management
> Consultancies
> Exchanges
> Insurance and Reinsurance
Our core focus is to identify, attract and deliver high quality professionals who can support and enhance their new employer’s corporate objectives. These individuals may work in one of many areas:
> Change & Transformation
> Compliance
> Financial Technology
> Risk Management
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Technology With the continued evolution of Technology, it’s understandable why the top ten in-demand jobs of 2015 did not exist in 2005, demonstrating how technology is tangibly affecting the job market.
In today’s context, companies are constantly looking for individuals who have the skills and experience relevant to solve today’s technological problems but are also agile enough to move with tomorrow’s emerging technologies. Here at McGregor Boyall, we have a team of industry Executive specialists who recruit mid to senior level professionals within the Vendor, Global Service Provider, Networking, Consulting and System Integrator verticals. Our core focus is across the Sales, Pre-sales, Solution Architecture, Delivery, Service Management, Technical and PMO functions.
Our Team offer in-depth market knowledge and have been recruiting within the IT & Telecoms sector for more than twenty-five years, understanding the landscape and dynamics of this fast-changing landscape. We work strategically with our clients across the following territories and understand the regional intricacies in business culture when doing so:
> Singapore> Hong Kong
> ANZ
> Malaysia
> Philippines
Whether you’re looking at your next career move or seeking the regions top talent, McGregor Boyall is well positioned to help.
> China
> Indonesia
> Thailand
> India
> Japan
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Legal & ComplianceA specialist legal & compliance recruitment team with an impressive track record of successfully placing mid to senior level General Counsels across Asia.
For Legal & Compliance, a standard approach using database recruiters is not good enough anymore. In-depth knowledge of the business across disciplines and business sectors is critical. You need an independent search firm to assess the space, integrity and quality of the pool of candidates, and be able to bring in new ideas from other countries to bring in true talent.
A full knowledge of the space on a regional level is critical. Legal & Compliance should be the domain of an informed head-hunter. In other words Legal & Compliance Executive Search has come of age and this is what McGregor Boyall brings to the table.
With our team’s successfull dedication in their craft, we have delivered on assignments in China, Singapore, India, Thailand, and the overall ASEAN region.
Our clients include:
> Global MNCs in the Technology
> Manufacturing
> Pharmaceuticals
> Energy and other industries.
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Change & TransformationWith the significant increase in regulatory requirements within the banking sector since the global financial crisis, there has been an increase in demand for, and value of, proven change managers to ensure these regulatory requirements are met.
Failure to meet these requirements could have a catastrophic effect on banking institutions. An experienced team with a proven track record of successfully placing Project, Programme, Change and Transformation Talent across multiple geographies.
We provide Permanent staff as well as Agency & Direct Contract talent on a contingent, exclusive and retained basis and can provide a tailored recruitment solution to meet the needs of our clients. Our team partner with clients including; Investment and Retail Banks; Asset Managers; Commodity houses ; Insurance companies and Management Consultancies among others.
We have successfully placed roles at global institutions across: Business / Process Analysis, Business Transformation, Finance Transformation, Operations Change, Program Management, Risk and Regulatory Change, among others.
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Private BankingMcGregor Boyall has an extensive client base of global organisations that choose to partner with us for their international and regional hiring requirements. We assist our clients in recruiting across a number of their key business areas including:
An experienced Private Banking & Front Office specialist team with a strong track record of successfully placing mid to senior executives in major financial institutions across Asia Pacific. The team covers front office roles in the various sectors including Private Banking, Asset Management, Corporate Commercial Banking and Global Transaction Banking.
Our clients include : Top-tier and Boutique Private Banks, International Asset Management Firms, Insurance Brokerage and Corporate Bank Institutions.
Types of roles successfully placed include:
> Market Heads for Singapore, Malaysia
> Global Head of Investment Advisory
> Global Product Manager – Fixed Income
> Senior Bankers in these markets : SEA, NRI, Philippines
> Senior Banker – Global Banking
> Head of Trade Advisory – GTS
> Head of Securities Services – GTS
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Quality & DiversityA focus on quality has always enjoyed a critical position at the heart of McGregor Boyall’s service offering.
Accompanying our commitment to ethical business practices, the firm’s key policy commitment is to quality. McGregor Boyall has therefore chosen to promote quality as the key organising principle of its operations by gaining ISO accreditation BS EN ISO 9001. Since then we have been audited by a member of the British Standards Institution on an annual basis and have been awarded continued accreditation. Our Pride in Quality programme includes:
> Quality Management System for client satisfaction
> Post-Assignment Quality Surveys
> Recruitment Assignment Performance Reviews
> Continuous Consultant Performance Measurement
Additionally McGregor Boyall operates a comprehensive Diversity & Inclusion Policy that states that everyone shall be treated equally, irrespective of gender, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, colour, religion, ethnicity or national origin.
All applications for employment are managed on an individual basis and the grounds for selection are based purely on a candidate’s skills, qualifications and aptitude. Our best endeavours are made to ensure that this is applicable to every applicant and regular monitoring is performed throughout the recruitment process.
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Added ValueMcGregor Boyall regularly conducts market research programmes to provide individual clients and market participants in general with timely human resourcing and recruitment related data.
Our Business Support Team assists with all added value requirements, marketing and public relations support where required by the client. Recent examples of such added value services include publications on:
> Salary benchmarking
> Updates on recruitment and demand for skills
> Updates on level of demand for expertise
> Indicators of shifts and changes in hiring patterns
> Impacts of new regulations
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Financial Services Technology Update
The Chief Change Officer
The Leader of Change, the new
Chief Change Officer is responsible
for all organisational change
initiatives, tools and methodologies
within an organisation. These include
Six Sigma, Balanced Scorecard, Lean
Enterprise, supply-chain management,
benchmarking and business systems
process modelling, to name but a few.
Throughout last year we have seen
businesses continuously seeking talents
with track records of implementing
and managing change programmes.
Today the rate of change has never
been more rapid or more constant.
Whether the change is a small one, like
the implementation of a new system, or
a much bigger one such as a company
divestment or merger, the way that
change is managed makes all the
difference to its success or failure.
Users rarely welcome change. Hence
together with the hard technical skills
mentioned above, the most important
skills a Change Professional must
possess is the ability to affect positive
transformation which does not threaten
the status quo. They must ensure that
doing things differently also means doing
them better in the long run, and that
they bring a collaborative and sensitive
approach to the project.
“When you are finished changing,
you’re finished.” - Benjamin Franklin
Key functions the CCO are
looking for:
Build the Target Operating Model –
The Strategist and Business Process
Solutions Specialist
This high level professional takes on a
real challenge to decide and describe
the desired state of the operations of a
business. Typically a TOM also includes
the roadmap over time that specifies
what the company needs to do to move
from the “as is” to the “to be”. Deep and
broad business experience coupled with
a structured approach to define work
streams is a rare mix, hence 2015 has
been a good market for this skillset.
Communicate the Rationale
Behind the Need for Change – The
Programme Relationship Manager
To introduce any change, large or small,
top down or bottom up, employees must
know why it is important for the change
to occur and the intended benefits. This
highly skilled function will handle this
carefully and communicate to all affected
parties, often in global locations. There
should also be adequate opportunities
for people to voice their concerns and
contribute their thoughts, views and
opinions. The Relationship Manager
juggles feedback and politics, scopes
boundaries, and will eventually convince
employees of the need for change.
All Change in Financial
Services
If there was one thing we
were sure to have happened
this year in Financial
Services, it was Change.
Numerous initiatives, both
proactive and reactive, new
and inflight have gone into
production with varying
results and satisfaction.
At this stage, technology
can no longer be viewed
as something that simply
supports the business.
Throughout 2015, senior
Technology Executives
worked with Business
Leaders to drive the changes
required to keep up with
an increasingly competitive
landscape. Leading change
involves juggling technology
shifts and new business
models, framed by cost
control – what fits, what
doesn’t, what suits the
business best.
A Review of 2015
Jan 2016
HR & The Digital Age
June 2015 mcgregor-boyall.com
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Testing Market Report Q4 2015
Summary
> We have seen a good amount of senior test roles released in the second half of the year. This includes global test management positions working within investment banking, with reporting lines of 150-200 resources.
> Various organisations have been recruiting permanent hires to work alongside the testers from the consultancies/ third party suppliers. This is with the aim to keep the business/ technical knowledge within the company itself (as opposed to relying on consultancies/ third parties).
> There has been a lot of movement in the Credit Risk space, with a large demand for testers with strong credit risk business knowledge. This includes knowledge around counterparty risk, CVA, LGD, EAD and VAR. Testers with specific technical experience with SAS in particular have had a distinct advantage.
Hiring Trends
InvestmentBank
Credit RiskTest Manager
Top Tier Bank
Financial Software House
Asset Management
Firm
InvestmentBank
Recent Placements
UAT ProgrammeTest Manager
FX Test Analyst
QA AutomationLead
Buy Side TestAnalyst
Clients
> Barclays
> Standard Chartered
> Lloyds
> HSBC
> UBS
> Credit Suisse
> Citi
> London Stock Exchange
56% of roles were contract. 44% were permanent.
68% of the roles released were manual testing positions. This
is an increase from previous updates, where automation roles
usually dominate.
54% of roles analyst level. 46% Lead/ Management.
The majority of contract roles were between £400-600 (74%)
33% of permanent roles were above £80k. This indicated
an increase in the amount of senior positions that have been
released.
56%contract
44%permanent
68%ManualTesting
Positions
54%Analyst Level Roles
46%Lead / Management
74%contract roles average £400 -
600 pd
33%permanent roles
were above £80k
Connor Choudhury
Testing Consultant
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Investement Bank
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Insurance Bank
Tier 1 Bank
Asset Management
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