While other segments of the financial services industry have suffered through the current crisis, needs in the Fin Tech area have been growing rapidly as a result of various consolidations and changes in technology and operations for most global banking organisations.
Fin Tech is a constantly expanding, high-potential search segment that covers any CIO, CTO, COO, or obvious IT position in a financial services firm, or any position that supports financial services in a technology company. Such Fin Tech companies are most common in the banking, capital markets, insurance and traditional vendor sectors.
What skills are needed?
To stay ahead in the game, financial services institutions need ensure that they have access to the most highly skilled staff available, both at executive board level and in areas such as CIOs, technology operations and infrastructure. At the same time, the leadership skills required to manage large multi-regional entities across geographies and cultures will be increasingly important.
How can Egon Zehnder International support the Fin Tech industry?
Egon Zehnder International's global Fin Tech Practice consists of a highly professional team around the world who partner with senior executives of organizations in all sectors of the technology and financial services industry to address hiring needs and assist with the assessment of existing management competencies, and to support boards of directors. Over 25 consultants worldwide are dedicated to serving clients in the Fin Tech sector.
The management of high-performance teams with the varied technical backgrounds needed to steer companies safely through the crisis also poses particular leadership challenges in strategic, talent and human resources management. With our well-established
Leadership Strategy Services Practice including our unique
Team Effectiveness Review service, we are particularly well placed to support retail financial services institutions’ boards and top-management teams in these challenging times.
How we operate
Our unique one-firm approach, which facilitates collaboration across geographical and practice boundaries, enables us to bring highly skilled and experienced teams to the table, with proven expertise tailored to meet the needs of clients and achieve credibility with candidates and opinion leaders around the world.
By focusing on people and skills management in the context of a specific strategy, we help retail financial institutions to rethink their organizations and their winning value propositions.
