Looking for a job in FINANCE

[EP]

I asked them if I can have a visa card. They refuse.

You need to have some credit history before you can have a credit card.

If you need to put cash into your account, you need to make a queue whereas in Belgium/ France, you have a nice machine outside of the bank where you can put your money at any time!

I don´t know anybody who queues in banks. There are machines (maksuautomaatti) on many places, some outside banks, some in shopping malls and outside (or inside) supermarkets. But I have a feeling that there were more of them 10 years ago. Nowadays people do all their banking things online.

You don't get there a piece of paper full of numbers you need to fill in order to access to your account.

Well, you only need to fill two number series when you enter, and one of them is always the same. And the length of the changing series is only four numbers.

[Rosamunda]

Concerning your ranking, I think that you need to correct it, because i didn't find such a think

I read it in the Financial Times Finland Survey Tuesday September 4, 2007.

(The Financial Times is a British daily newspaper printed on pink paper that contains lots of articles about business and finance and that sort of thing).

Anyway, I'm not looking for any argument... I am just giving my experience after 20 years living in France, a couple in Hungary and 6 years up here. I still cannot do cross boundary transfers on-line in my French bank account. I can up here (they are free inside the euro zone). Banks are like any other business, if they really want your custom they will do you a deal

[raamv]

hmm and you want a job in a bank here?? and all you are saying that you really know how it works is that they charge for everything??
I thank that yew bewtter start movignon to where yew caim from!!!
Bekaus, with year deduktion of Financ jobs its going to be touf to geet a job!!
Apart from that with your attitude that you WANT to work in a bank without Finnish and Swedish..You better change that and ask yourself what you can offer as skill to some other place who needs it..

[Tiwaz]

Regarding these troublesome numbers one has to have to access bank account...

Thank god...

Because I can do pretty much everything my sick little heart desires in my online bank access.

And, since I can carry all that stuff with me I can do it anywhere! Assuming I'm willing to risk using my account with local computer. Of course, once I log out I would have to use another one of those pesky numbers to log back in so getting into my account without all my numbers might be little bit troublesome.

[No.6]

Moi everybody,
I am looking for a job / internship in the finance world (Banks, stock market, consultancy,...). Could you please provide any information about that.
Thanks

BTW, small point - what skills do you believe you posess or could even develop, for you to deserve a job in a Finnish bank?

It seems your idea of international banking, finance and trade is limited to whether or not you get your daily cash management done for free in a foreign country

Perhaps learning Finland's native languages will improve your grasp of its commercial sectors also. Try it!

[Nallis]

And because of banks in Spain and other places were being that lax, there is now new EU wide money-laundering rules. The problem is Finland is always a stickler for rules, so they implement them always at the fullest. So you need to show ID these days even putting money into your own account

As for rules and regulations (and EU directives), Finland is in the frontline whereas other countries lack behind.

Take for example SEPA. My bank in Finland announced in the summer they're offering SEPA payments right from the start of the whole system, that is january 2008. I asked about the service at the desk of my bank in the UK, HSBC, and the clerk had no clue what SEPA is.

And like penelope, I can't make international money transfers online here in the UK, only by phone or by the desk in the bank. Very inconvenient..

(And don't get me started on the cheque system..)

[debonaire]

I think you are the only one who is saying that about the French Banks.

I have to agree with Penelope on this one (yes, I have had bank accounts in France). Ok, you pay for things in the Finnish bank, but you get professional bank services, unlike in some other countries (I have had bank accounts in quite a few countries).

You get what you pay for.

Plus, you dont think the French banks (or banks in other countries) dont charge you for everything, do you? They just make it part of other fees so you dont know about these costs.

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I agree that using netbanking is pretty easier,hassle free and secured...Being a Key customer to Nordea, i get a lot of free services and don't have to shell out the normal fees associated with many other banking services...
But i beg to differ on the efficiency front...When i was a check-in customer,I obtained a norman master card which is free for the first year...Inspite of it being free, the bank deducted the yearly fee from my account knowing pretty well that i was a check-in customer...Well,that goof up was duly rectified once i brought this to their notice...

I thought it might just be a one time thing...but again there happened another mistake this month...I had taken a flexicredit and this month I paid off the loan entirly 2 weeks before the due date for direct debiting...and i duly informed my banking advisor about this and to make sure that thay don't deduct the money again on the due date through direct debiting as the loan was completely paid off...Despite of paying off the loan and informing the banking advisor in advance,Nordea took the monthly instalment on due date...I had even written an email and called my advisor at Nordea to inform them about this goof up but still awaiting to get the money back into my account, even after 2 weeks...So what do you expect me to say about the efficiency thing...

[jpp]

hi veron,

not sure if you are still looking for a job in finance ...

finnish banks do require finnish or swedish if you are seeking a customer service role. however, there are several roles that you can do with only english. this is especially true in the investment banking arena. if you have a special skill to offer, you will find that banks like nordea are willing to meet with you. pick the area of your expertise and write in to the relevant department.

if, on the other hand, you are looking for a trainee position, then not knowing the language will be serious handicap for you. banks here get plenty of applications from recent graduates with masters in finance. then your backgorund has to stand out vis-a-vis the other applicants for the employer to overlook your lack of finnish.

good luck