McGregor Boyall Asia Pacific brochure

1. Asia Pacific
McGregor Boyall Associates

2. Contents
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About Us
Financial Services
Technology
Legal & Compliance
Change & Transformation
Private Banking
Quality & Diversity
Added Value
Contact Details
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3. Since 1987 McGregor Boyall has been successfully delivering professional
recruitment services to a national and international client base from our
London office. In 2011 we opened our first international office in
Singapore to further extend our offering to the Asia Pac Region.
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,
Reading and Dubai we have
greater global reach to the
talent pool across the Asia
Pacific, UK & Europe and
Middle East regions.
London
Edinburgh
Manchester
Reading
Dubai
Singapore
About
Us
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4. Our 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
Financial
Services
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5. 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
Technology
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6. A 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.
Legal &
Compliance
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7. With 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.
Change
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8. McGregor Boyall has an extensive client base of global organisations that choose to part-
ner 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
Private
Banking
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9. 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.
Quality
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10. 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
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he 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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Middle and Back Office:
In addition we have dedicated teams
who specialise in:
> Risk Management
> Legal & Compliance
> Audit
> IT & Change Management
> Operations
Who we are
McGregor Boyall is a specialist resourcing and recruitment firm which has served our clients for
over twenty-five years. With extensive experience of recruiting in the Middle East region and
further offices in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Singapore we are able to provide our
clients with the very best talent on the international market.
Core Business Areas
McGregor 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:
Banking & Financial Services:
We have strong track record in providing experienced
individuals who work in the following areas of Banking
and Financial Services:
> Consumer Wealth
> Commercial Banking
> Corporate & Investment Banking
> Global Transaction Banking
> Private Banking
> Asset Management
> Insurance
Our Approach
By positioning ourselves in key financial centres across the world we are truly able to offer
a collaborative, co-coordinated and time-effective international solution to our clients’
recruitment needs. Through a mix of contingency based recruitment and retained search
and selection, McGregor Boyall is able to offer flexible, tailored recruitment solutions.
Contact
Anita Gerry Sim
Director
asim@mcgregor-boyall.com
Tel: +65 6394 7074
Added
Value
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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11. Primary Contact
Jon Neale
T: (+65) 6394 7066
E: jneale@mcgregor-boyall.com
Address
Office 18-02
One Finlayson Green
Singapore 049246
Contact
Us
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