Top Finance Job Sites In The UK
Plus the best performing financial job boards of 2019
Posting your jobs on niche job boards before you resort to posting on major job boards like Indeed and Monster is a smart move. Why? 1) It is more likely to pull in qualified candidates with the appropriate profile and 2) receiving less and more relevant applications can be a huge time saver.
Master of Finance ranks the United Kingdom as the #1 area in the world in terms of demand for finance professionals. And, of course, the London financial sector being one of the largest in the world is the main reason for that.
Such a high demand for finance professionals calls for looking at all possible sources for finding top talent. This is why we’ve prepared for you a ranking of the 7 best job boards to publish your job opening in Finance in the UK.
But first, let’s take a quick look at:
The best performing financial job boards of 2019 (source: VONQ’s Job Marketing data)
#1: The Economist
#2: Indeed Finance
#3: eFinancialCareers UK
#4: CareersinAudit
And now - straight to the Top Finance Job Sites in the UK
CareersinAudit.com attracts a wide variety of professionals – from Graduates and Assistants through to Heads of Department and Partners, spanning Internal Audit, External Audit, IT Audit, Risk, Compliance, Governance, Cyber Security, GRC, Assurance, Advisory, Regulations, Change, Forensic Accounting, Fraud, Financial Crime and Graduates & Trainees. The job site has a truly global reach with professionals registered from over 180 countries, 3,500 visitors on the site per month and 230,000 professional candidates registered.
The CareersinAudit Group also operates four other specialist job boards: CareersinRisk.com: CareersinCompliance; CareersinCyber.com; CareersinAnalytics.com.
At the Econ Jobs site you can reach over 160,000 Economists. The site audience at a glance: 3,200 views and 84 applications per advert (which the site claims to be approximately 5 times the industry standard for recruitment websites). In addition, the Econ Jobs site claims to be number 1 for the four top searches used by job seekers, including ‘economics jobs’ and ‘economist jobs’.
At Economist Jobs you can find professional economists from a variety of fields: Professional Economists; Micro Economists working in competition / regulation / policy – within government, industry regulators and consultancy; Macro Economists working in banking /consultancy/ finance / asset management; Micro Economists working with associations, regulated utilities, charities and corporations; Economists working in Academia. EconomistJobs has over 35,000 monthly site visitors and their weekly job alert is emailed to over 10,000 recipients.
With its 2 million unique site visitors monthly, eFinancialCareers (efc) is the world’s leading financial careers website and the place to go for the best financial candidates. eFinancialcareers gives you the opportunity to publish your job listings in 35 different niches within finance such as accounting, asset management, commercial banking, retail banking, investment banking, trading and derivatives. According to SimilarWeb, 426 420 visits are recorded per month for the UK portal and that’s just one of 19 countries in which the job board has set up shop (eFinancialCareers offers local websites in 19 markets across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the financial centres of the Middle East).
Finance Jobs Now distinguishes itself by being the only job board in the UK specialising in temporary, contract and interim jobs in Finance and Accounting. Finance Jobs Now captures all levels of finance jobs from Finance Operations and Finance Support jobs like accounts payable, credit control, payroll or bookkeeping jobs to various levels of professionally qualified roles such as part qualified finance analysts, qualified management accountants or experienced interim Finance Directors.
GAAPweb (which originally stood for “Generally Accepted Accountancy Principles”) is a specialist job board for finance and accountancy professionals in the UK. The site’s audience at a glance: 85% hold a professional qualification and 50% have over 5 years’ industry experience, 133,000 candidates visit the site each month and submit over 63,000 applications, 67% of their candidates are said to have over 15 years experience, and nearly 80% of the candidates on the site hold a professional qualification.
StatisticsJobs is said to be among the top job sites for finding statistics professionals in the UK. The site is visited by over 4000 jobseekers every month (which is a great number for such a niche area!), those being Statisticians, Data Analysts and Data Science professionals. StatisticsJobs also partners with over 1200 job boards which guarantees some extra exposure to relevant and wide candidate pools. There are over 5000 Statisticians registered on the site to date.
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