Finance jobs in Munich - where to look for work

Could anyone suggest recruitment agencies, companies etc... that currently have vacancies within the finance industry...

Should be English speaking and Munich based.

Thanks

It's very tough in Munich in the finance industry. I couldn't find anything here, I was always told to go to Frankfurt. A mate of mine who lives in Frankfurt and is a headhunter for financial services says it's like pushing shit up hill with chopsticks getting a fluent german speaking foreigner into financial roles in Munich, so I'd imagine dong the same but in an english speaking role would be like pushing shit up hill with pins or somesuch.

what kind of job you looking for, satish?
do you actually want a finance job (accounting/controlling/etc) or a job in the finance sector?

Looking for a job within the finance sector I guess...

Bit of background info would perhaps help here:
Girfriend is currently living and working in London for a loan company looking after their accounts, customers, forecasts, sales, etc...

She's looking to move over to Munich, and finding a job out here, so wants to get an idea of what is available here with no German knowledge...

Perhaps a few people have been through similar experiences, and could offer some tips, advice, stories... :-)

Cheers!

Sorry mate, there are jobs available here for people with no German skills at all, but you really need to be more specific about what she can do and what she wants to do. You're asking for info in far too broad a way.

Try doing a search on some of the following websites. You will need German for some of them.

www.jobserve.com
www.jobpilot.de
www.gulp.de
www.monster.de

Most of those are geared towards IT, but they also list lots of other stuff.

Also, do searches on this site using keywords such as finance, employment, jobs, etc, etc until your fingers start to go numb. Then wait a while and do it again. There is a wealth of information freely available on here with regards to most aspects of job hunting.

the same question as my friend and I (partially). He was a chief accountant with CPA certificate in his country, but his job-hunting hasn't worked out till now due to the missing German knowledge.

Surely higher working skills may require lower language level...maybe English as a native language is an asset or advantage for your gf. As I've searched for the several days, the big four auditing accounting offices are looking for new employees recently. You can take a look at their homepages, google search with key words, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers etc.

Good luck to us all.

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something wrong with my expression? I mean, for instance, many of the TTers are working in the IT field and they can't speak German very well, but they can do excellent jobs in programming etc. Pls make correction if I'm wrong.

Advices are more appreciated than pure teasing.

To KD (alias kid), I don't think teasing is your hobby.

Advice is appreciated more than pure teasing...and even that doesn't sound the best. You are probably correct with the sentiment though, but teasing is a lot more fun for me and we have to take a step back for a second and ask who I care more about, you or me.

It's a trade-off between trying to be somewhat helpful and taking the piss. I gave a couple of suggestions and a few potentially useful links. On my personal scales of justice that gives me some leeway for urine extraction.

you might be a little too optimistic in thinking that little/no German is ok if you are good enough at your job ... there are lots of fluent German speakers with very good to fluent English to compete against, I think that's the point.

shouldn't stop you trying, but it could be that there's simply not enough jobs available in the area you want, and fluent German could be much more important for this area than in IT, for example.

I think you can get away without speaking the local language in some countries when applying for a job, but in Germany it seems to often (not always) be a prerequesite. Even if you get your foot in the door of a supposedly English-speaking organisation, the pressure is immediately on for you to become fluent in German. Having said all that, I don't know about the financial sector and for your sake hope I'm wrong ... good luck

agree with you, dreamer.

KiD, behave!

As others have said you have to be careful what you mean by Finance. For those in the Financial Industry that means Investment Banking not even Retail Banking. But those like Accountants and Controllers it will mean in any firm doing a financial job.

After seeing what happened in Frankfurt after the end of the Dotcom boom, I would say you will find it hard without German. Investment Banks are the most international in terms of using English. But since Frankfurt is not going to take over from London as Europe's Financial centre and there are loads of good Germans who can speak excellent English, I've seen loads of expat move on either back to London or even Zurich. So if you mean the Financial Industry (Banking) then Frankfurt is better or Zurich. If you mean Insurance there are a few in Munich but I can imagine they are very conservative and service German clients. If you mean Accountancy then I havent got a clue!

Good luck either way.

Thanks for your input everyone...

@KD: I'll check out those websites

Satish, to read the German webpages, you can draw on Google translation tool,
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

just paste the link into Translate a webpage, click translate, and you will get a full-English interface.

A friend of mine told me, it works quite well.

She could look at these international companies: Int. Companies in Munich List