If you are a Senior Technology controls or Risk specialist looking for a lead role within a global corporation, then please apply below.

Commutable distance from Rugby, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Kettering and Northampton areas.

About you:

Proven IT Risk or IT Audit experience within an IT environment at a large corporate group.
Technical knowledge of applications within banking or financial services company and/or infrastructure within a large corporate.
Understanding of regulatory requirements ie eg : PCI DSS, Card Scheme Requirements

You will:

Manage audits, including planning and delivery,
Build relationships with senior clients
Developing individuals and teams
Be a high performer
Possess a professional qualifications e.g. CISA, CISM, CISSP, CRISC and a degree
Knowledge of emerging products and technology controls.

Please apply here to be considered for the role with Fleet Search & Selection Ltd

Top 4 Management Consultancy, Johannesburg, S. A.
Salary – Up to 1.3M ZAR

Are you an individual with 5 -7 years’ Sales experience?
Do you possess a minimum of 5 years’ experience selling IT Software and applications Solutions?
Do you have 5 years’ or more in the Banking/Financial services Industry?
Are you looking to reinforce your portfolio by generating attractive revenue for a top 4 Management Consultancy through exposure and Managerial responsibilities at all levels?

If this sounds like you and you have previous Solutions Business Development experience, are educated to Degree or Diploma level and would like to hear more, kindly send an updated CV and contact details to [email protected]

Top 4 Management Consultancy, Johannesburg, S. A.
Salary – 500k-1.2M ZAR

Are you an individual looking to channel your creative technology solutions experience through strategy formulation, business analysis and strategic account management to deliver innovative technologies in the Mining, Energy, Financial and various market sectors within South Africa. The consultancy offers all the above plus an exciting opportunity to be involved in client development, autonomy to build, develop and guide a team as well as grow your personal responsibilities and strengthening your portfolio.

If you possess a minimum of 2 years consultancy experience in offering technology solutions to SME and large clients (across any sector), are educated to Degree level and would like to hear more, kindly send an updated CV and contact details to [email protected]

Compliance Advisory, Monitoring, Controls, Conduct and Training role with well established SME Bank.

You must have experience within a regulatory control or compliance environment from a banking firm.

The successful candidate will:

• Produce reports highlighting areas of improvement as per the compliance monitoring plan
• Recommend improvements to Senior Management, XO’s and staff as well as manage project delivery of new regulatory requirements (MIFID 2, Senior Managers Regime etc.)
• Review operating procedures, manuals and processes, as well as management information
• Monitor the performance and make recommendations to the Legal & Head of Compliance
• Provide training to all bank staff and help identify compliance training needs
• Develop strong relationships with all staff members
• Provide appropriate advice on compliance issues
• Help plan all compliance work with the Head of Compliance and Head of Legal
• Prepare and manage non-financial returns
• Liaise with Regulators and other 3rd parties

• £350- 700 p/d
• immediate start
• x 2 Contract Capital Markets Audit roles
• Global Investment Bank
• 3-9 months contract depending on experience

Global Investment Bank seeking two experienced Internal Audit contractors at AVP & VP levels with practical experience of front office controls within Capital Markets (Equities, Fixed Income, or Commodities) products. Experience in compliance, risk or controls an advantage. This is a contract position so you must be able to hit the ground running. Excellent prospects for contract extension if desired.

Solutions Architect (Senior Manager and Manager Level)
Top 4 Management Consultancy – Johannesburg, South Africa
Salary – 700k-1.2M ZAR

Our client, one of the largest global management consultancies in South Africa, is seeking a
number of technical Solutions Architects with experience of providing solutions to Mining, Energy, Financial Services, Public and other Sector clients.

This role is targeted at individuals looking to utilize their technical expertise whilst channeling their commercial creativity providing strategy formulation, innovative solutions and strategic account management. The consultancy offers an exciting opportunity to be involved in client development providing autonomy to build up the team and play a huge role in deciding the direction of the business, in turn growing your responsibilities and strengthening your portfolio.

If you possess a minimum of 2 years’ experience gained within a consultancy delivering to SME and large clients, are educated to degree level and would like to hear more, please email me at [email protected].

A market leading investment bank are in the process of creating a new area within their established IT Audit function hence require an exceptional IT Applications Audit professional to come on board and play a pivotal part in developing this new area. Given this is a stand alone role – effectively the first one to join the London team you will have more ownership, visibility and autonomy compared to your peers and work directly with the Head of IT Audit. Working so closely with the Head of a function is indeed a rare opportunity for Auditors at AVP level, hence this is a truly exciting opportunity for those who thrive on new challenges.

You will also interact with IT Applications Auditors in the core IT Audit team, they typically foster a culture whereby cross sharing of skills and knowledge is vitally important. Given the depth of the technical reviews, cutting edge technology and complexities involved you will certainly be challenged but also have the opportunity to deepen your technical nous and learn from the best.

Key requirements:

• Degree educated
• IT Applications controls (General Controls work experience will not be sufficient for this role), must possess automated business controls experience
• Investment banking experience/ background would be an added advantage but those from other sectors will be considered
• Technically astute and genuinely passionate about technology
• Those form a technical background i.e. programming or developing applications will also be considered, but must possess good understanding of risk controls / end to end risk management / audit
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to build and develop relationships within the team and business stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills; able to explain challenging technical jargon in clear and concise form
• Adaptable and flexible mindset

For further details or to refer individuals in your network please get in touch for a confidential discussion. Or to apply, please send your CV to [email protected] / 0203 397 1779

My client is looking for a solid KDB+ developer to lead the KDB+ development activities across Fixed Income Rates and Currencies group in London.

The role will require a strong leader who can work closely with the front office business and lead the strategic direction of the KDB platform.

The team will work on the build out of the current KDB platform to meet new client demands across the Fixed Income Rates and Currencies group and to achieve this you work closely with the Front Office Quant and Trading business.

Work covers KDB architecture including but not limited to:

• low latency tick
• schema
• Q framework
• user focused analytics and visualization
• scripting
• some java components
• design of significantly sized KDB+ systems and Infrastructures
• development on a Unix or Linux environment
• low latency systems development and tick data capture
• core Java 

 Industry: Investment Banking

A global financial organisation based in Vilnius are currently hiring for a IT Specialist / System Owner to work in their Front Office Securities IT team.

The Securities IT team are responsible for building and integrating the next generation of trading applications for their Fixed Income and Equities business.

The Securities IT platform is a combination of in-house developed systems and external vendor products. The System Owners are responsible for the external vendor suite, ensuring that the solutions and systems we have in place are fit for purpose to support the business flow.

We are looking for a skilled technologist who wants to be part of a high performance team that delivers state-of-the-art, value adding solutions to our business stakeholders. Although the position is based in Vilnius, my client has a distributed team of about 30 people so effective communication and collaboration is critical to achieving their strategic objectives.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for the electronic trading vendor products, and ensuring the solutions we have in place are ‘fit for purpose’ to support the intended business flow.
• Being the technical expert on the platform and have a thorough understanding of the business flow it supports.
• Coordinate and handle maintenance tasks, upgrades, improvements and optimization.
• Install and configure new components as well as retiring old ones.
• Secure a fruitful working relationship between business users, operations, infrastructure teams and the Securities IT team.
• Solve complex tasks with simple solutions, while keeping the overall picture and dependencies in mind.
• Participate in 2nd/3rd level application support
• Optimization, Integration and configuration
• Project Management
• Development (There will be the chance to work on development in due course for those who have an interest in coding).

Knowledge and experience required:

• Relevant higher education – Bachelor’s degree as a minimum.
• Development background gained from University, spare time or in previous positions.
• Experience in handling third-party software and external suppliers.
• Experience of cooperation and coordination across stakeholders.
• Proven experience with IT projects in a time-to-market focused environment.
• Excellent stakeholder and vendor management skills.
• Understanding of IT infrastructure, spanning across the server side (mainly Windows but some knowledge of Linux is desirable), network, firewalls, etc.
• Experience in an agile work methodology.
• Knowledge of incident and problem management.

For more information, please send your CV to [email protected]

Industry: Financial Markets

Technology Recruitment Resourcer / Trainee Consultant – London                          Excellent Package

Fleet Technology is the Technology recruitment arm of Fleet Search and Selection (Established 2009) and focuses on the recruitment of IT specialists across the globe with mandates covering Europe, the Americas and AsiaPac. We possess strong client relationships with Group CIO/ CTO’s across trading operations of global investment banking clients. Our Directors are highly skilled with 12 – 25 years recruitment experience in their field.

      WE BELIEVE THAT STRONG RELATIONSHIPS AND MARKET INSIGHT – NOT HIGH TARGETS – WILL LEAD TO HIGH FEES

           WE OFFER AUTONOMY AND HIGH REWARDS FOR THOSE THAT THINK THE SAME

Our business has ROCKETED over the last year and we are looking for an ambitious and driven individual to work closely with our Technology Recruitment Director supporting his expanding workload in what might be your first or second recruitment role. THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO GET IN AT GROUND LEVEL AND BE PART OF A FORWARD THINKING BUSINESS TO WORK ALONGSIDE AND LEARN FROM SOME OF THE MOST EXPERIENCED RECRUITERS IN THE CITY…

The role will involve recruiting for permanent and contract front office technology staff globally. As you develop your sector knowledge and recruitment skills, we will give you exposure to Consultancy work and will support you to generate your own fees within a short period of time, ultimately progressing to a full time Junior Consultancy position.

Whilst previous recruitment or sales experience is preferred, it is not essential. We will provide you with interesting recruitment projects, training, team support and a friendly open office in which you can excel. In return, you will apply a strong work ethic to make sure you deliver on expectations in both your targets and self-development.

Above all you must be smart, intelligent, a good negotiator, thoughtful, quick-thinking and be able to to conduct a confident dialogue at senior management level.

This is an exceptional opportunity providing great earning potential if you can apply yourself to achieve all that you can.

The role:

• Build new candidate relationships through research and networking.
• Identify and approach potential candidates via the phone and online.
• Manage, organise and control your own recruitment processes.
• Negotiate on multiple levels with candidates.
• Advertise vacancies, processing applications and shortlisting candidates.
• Research the financial services technology sector.
• Provide market analysis
• Meet candidates and clients face to face.
• Maintain communication with established candidates to business develop and promote Fleet Technology.
• Identify potential recruiting needs and follow up on leads.
• Facilitate the hiring process including interviewing and screening candidates.
• Guide candidates through the hiring process.
• Maintain good working relationships with candidates and team members.
• Resolve and manage candidate issues.
• Maintain and build the candidate database.

You will:

• Demonstrable evidence of personal achievement.
• Some commercial / business experience (preferably Recruitment or Sales).
• Knowledge of the realities of a business career.
• Possess a strong work ethic to go that extra mile.
• Be pro-active in identifying and creating opportunities and supporting others.
• Be self motivated and confident working on your own as there will be occasions when your Team members are away on assignments.
• Intelligent, thoughtful, hungry and career-minded.

Our environment:

• Professional.
• Focused on long term growth not short term gain.
• Sociable.
• Flexible.
• Team orientated.
• Rewarding.
• Encouraging.
• Challenging.

What we offer:

• Competitive starting base salary + commission.
• Full training and career progression plan.
• An open and supportive working environment.
• Good career opportunities to develop your research and professional skills within a niche industry.

This vacancy is for a full-time permanent role. To apply, e-mail your CV and Cover Letter to [email protected]