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For 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 Middle East region from our office in Dubai.

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 Dubai, Singapore, London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Reading we have greater global reach to the talent pool across the Middle East, Asia Pacific and UK & Europe Regions.

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Edinburgh

Manchester

Reading

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McGregor Boyall has been covering the Middle East region specifically for the past five years and our regional headquarters was formally established in Jan 2012 in Dubai, DIFC.

Our highly experienced consultants work in close collaboration with our London and Singapore teams to deliver against the recruitment and resourcing requirements of a broad range of regional and international financial services clients that include:

> Asset / Investment Management firms> Consultancies> Exchanges> Insurance and Reinsurance firms> Investment Banks> Private Banks & Wealth Managers> Ratings Agencies> Regulators> Retail Banks> Wholesale / Commercial Banks

Our Middle East operation has specialist consultants and full research capability, all with extensive industry experience within the Global and Middle East financial services market coupled with an in-depth appreciation of the cultural diversity across the region. Our business approach is one based on results, of complete transparency, working quickly and efficiently whilst always delivering to the highest levels of ethics and integrity. Our objective is always to ensure that we develop long term trusted relationships with clients and candidates alike.

Our core focus is to identify, attract and deliver high quality professionals across:

Asset Management Compliance Corporate & Wholesale Banking Corporate FinanceFinanceGroup Strategy & Research Information Technology

Marketing & Communications OperationsPrivate Banking & Wealth Retail & Commercial BankingRisk ManagementTreasury & Global Markets

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Whether you have a challenging appointment to fill or multiple vacancy requirements McGregor Boyall’s Commerce & Industry practice has an extensive network and global reach to find the best talent for your business.

Consistently delivering recruitment and talent management services across all industry sectors, we are well equipped to deal with a diverse range of skill sets, and recruitment levels. Our client portfolio ranges from SMEs to global blue-chip organisations:

> Energy> Engineering> Financial Services> Oil & Gas> Pharmaceutical> Public Sector FMCG> Transportation

We have extensive experience of successfully placing mid to senior level candidates in positions throughout the Middle East and Africa, across the following disciplines:

> Finance> Human Resources> Information Technology> Sales & Marketing> Supply Chain & Logistics> Technical & Engineering

Marketing & Communications OperationsPrivate Banking & Wealth Retail & Commercial BankingRisk ManagementTreasury & Global Markets

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With more than ten years’ experience in the sector, our Legal team recruit professionals into permanent positions across the Middle East region.

Through a mix of contingency based recruitment and retained search and selection, McGregor Boyall’s Legal division is able to offer flexible, tailored recruitment solutions. Through our network we have established a trusted and valued presence in this marketplace. Roles we recruit for include:

> Company Secretaries> In-house Lawyers> Legal & Ethical compliance professionals> Private Practice Associates & Partners

Headed up by a qualified lawyer, the McGregor Boyall Legal division specialists have over five years’ experience in the Middle East region and have developed a network of local and international candidates in the area. We work in partnership with leading global institutions, as well as SMEs and start-ups,

using our local expertise to effectively source the right talent.Our knowledge of the legal sector allows us to offer a tailored approach to suit the individual requirements of our clients and candidates, providing advertised selection and search services as required.

We are a well-known and established player in the market who has worked hard to develop strong relationships with the relevant candidate pools, allowing us to provide our clients with access to global talent. Most importantly, we value our long lasting relationships, all of which are built on trust and our teams’ dedication to the job at hand.

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Richard Lett Regional Director, Middle East

Richard graduated from Durham University in 1996 with a BA in Arabic with Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. For the past fifteen years, Richard has been specialising in financial services recruitment both in London and the Middle East. His personal track record includes multiple successful place-ments at a mid to senior level across banking and financial services.

Most recently these have been across Global Markets, Wholesale Banking, Treasury and Global Markets, Asset Management, Risk Management, Compliance and IT. Prior to moving to the region, Richard headed the banking division of one of the City’s leading financial services recruitment firms in London. Richard is Regional Director and responsible for McGregor Boyall’s Middle East operations based from Dubai, DIFC. He lives with his wife and two sons in Dubai.

Giles ButtonAssociate DirectorBanking & Senior Appointments

Giles has been the recruitment industry for almost 15yrs cover-ing financial services across Europe, Asia and Middle East from mid-level through to ‘C’ level management roles. Over the last 5rs Giles has evolved in developing a footprint across a wide variety of industries at senior management level specialising in working with large local and International groups across Banking, Retail, FMCG and more recently the Pharma-ceutical/Healthcare industry whilst leveraging of our regional and International coverage globally.

He has lived and worked not only in the UK, but Tokyo and now Dubai, giving him an appreciation for different cultures and sensitivities around the world. Giles is a SeniorConsultant within the Dubai team and responsible for helping grow McGregor Boyall’s footprint across the MENA region. Giles graduated from Swansea in 1996 with a BA in Business Studies and lives in Dubai with his wife and daughters.

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Peter DomicanHead of Technology

Peter Domican currently manages technology function for McGregor Boyall Middle East which specialises in the recruit-ment of mid to senior level IT professionals into commercial, technical and professional service industries. Peter has been working within the technology recruitment space since 2011, previously working with one of Ireland’s leading recruitment brands before relocating to the Middle East in 2013 to join a FTSE listed global recruitment consultancy focusing on senior IT appointments across the UAE & KSA.

Peter has successfully sourced for clients in Ireland, United Kingdom and the Middle East across the full technology spectrum from Junior to Executive level positions. Peter holds a BSc in Science, MSc in Business & Entrepreneurship as well as a Higher Diploma in Human Resource Management. Peter is also a certified recruiter from the National Recruitment Federation of Ireland.

Mark HibbsAssociate DirectorBanking & Financial Services

Mark has over 12 years of senior level executive recruitment experience across the UK and Middle East. Graduating from Sheffield Hallam University in 2003, Mark joined a market lead-ing global recruitment firm in 2004 where he built a robust recruitment reputation delivering into the Financial Services sector within the UK. Mark moved to Qatar, Middle East in 2008 where he continued to successfully recruit into both regional and international banks and financial institutions, develop new territories and lead small teams.

In 2012 Mark made an internal move to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With 8 years GCC exposure, Mark has a deep rooted candidate network of both expatriate and local national talent and has been involved in multiple mid to senior / C Level hires across the GCC region within Banking & Financial Services.

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Lavanya BhattTechnology Consultant

Lavanya Bhatt specialises in IT recruitment at McGregor Boyall, focusing on Business Intelligence and Information Security related roles. Prior to joining McGregor Boyall, Lavanya worked at Deloitte as an Auditor, post which she joined a FTSE listed global recruitment consultancy, recruiting mid to senior level IT roles across UAE and KSA. Her expertise includes filling niche roles with very specific requirements in the technology sphere.

She was raised in the UAE and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Sami QureshiHead of Legal, Middle East

Sami joined McGregor Boyall in 2012 to oversee the legal and compliance function for the Middle East team, having been a legal and compliance recruiter in the region since 2008. Prior to coming to Dubai Sami was based in New York, where she spent three years with a leading international recruitment firm. Sami has a proven track record having con-sistently recruited Senior Lawyers and Compliance Officers within regional institutions, multi-national corporations and top tier law firms.

Prior to her career in legal recruitment, Sami practiced as a litigator in Manhattan for several years. She graduated from a top tier law school in Washington, DC and completed her LL.M from Fordham University in New York. Sami is admitted to practice in both the state of New York and Washington, D.C.

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Eunice DingLegal Consultant

Eunice is a legal and compliance recruiter at Mcgregor Boyall. Born and raised in Singapore, she is bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese. Prior to joining Mcgregor Boyall, Eunice was a regional recruitment lead for HSBC’s transactional banking business in the Middle East. Prior to relocating to the UAE, she recruited for multinationals (including names in the Fortune 500 arena) in Singapore and made several successful placements within the commerce in-house legal sectors. Consistently earning stellar recommendations from candidates for her down to earth and dedicated approach, Eunice has developed lasting rapport with candidates and clients alike.

Outside of her role as a recruiter, Eunice is currently pursuing her MSc in International Relations and volunteers with an animal watch group in Dubai.

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A 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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McGregor Boyall regularly conducts market research programmes to provide individual clients and market participants in general with timely human resourcing and recruitment related data.

> 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

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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

E: [email protected]

T: 0207 422 9042

AddedValue

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:

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Richard Lett

T: +971 4 377 0603

E: [email protected]

Address

McGregor Boyall Associates

Office 513, Liberty House

Dubai International Financial Centre

PO Box 506635

Dubai, UAE

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