I studied a BCom at university and went down the route of accountancy rather than in finance, on account of me not being the greatest at math’s. Since having worked as an accountant, I have find myself auditing alot of banking houses, fund managers and generally quite a finance operatives. I am now looking to change careers into finance and thinking that a job in finance may be the route for me to go to. I figures that accountancy is not too far from finance and as I have over 5 years accountancy experience, I should be able to get banking jobs quite easily. I know that we have had a big recession and that the banks in the UK are down-sizing etc, but Investment finance should still be strong enough in London to be recruiting. If they not hiring ,then who is?
One of things I am looking to understand is which role within banking has the moat similar skills to an accountant? For me to get finance jobs becoming an option for me, I need to get a job with bank or fiance house that has a job that can cater for my skills. Given that I can read financial statements and perform reconciliations till they come through my ears, then a role as a financial analyst will be compatible for my skills, or even a finance manager. What about a risk manager. Surely financial risk would a job in finance that I could easily manage? Anyway, I am interested in anyone who could give me some insights into finance jobs – what they entail, what I can earn and which role would be suited to be best.
The other thing I am interested in knowing about is where to go in terms of looking for a job in banking. Running a job search on bing, I found lots of banking jobs being advertised on lots of job boards, but am keen to know which is the best to use? There are so many and they take a long time to register with, anyway. Is this a waste of time or am I being lazy? Would be interested in knowing from others, which sites to register with and the best way to run a job search on the search engines to find the best job sites to work with. Here are a few that I have spotted – which do you guys recommend: bankingjobsuk.co.uk/ , purelybanking.co.uk/ , reed.co.uk/jobs/banking