Banking jobs snapshot for week beginning 17 January
In the week of 17 January to 23 January there were 13,003 banking jobs posted by the world’s largest 1,000 financial services firms, according to the GlobalData jobs analytics tool.
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The figure remains flat compared with the previous week. In the week of 10 January to 16 January there were 13,163 new banking jobs posted.
US-headquartered banks are again responsible for more than one half of the new jobs posted. Europe follows with almost 3,000 new jobs posted ahead of Canadian-headquartered lenders with 1,004 jobs posted.
Banks based in Asia Pacific post over 750 new jobs in total.
To date in 2021, banks based in the Middle East and Africa have been quiet as regards new job postings. Standard Bank is the exception in the past week, with 67 new jobs listed.
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By GlobalDataOverall, JPMorgan Chase is again the most active with 1,353 new job postings. Citi (855) is also prominent while Wells Fargo’s new postings drop from 791 last week to 271 this week.
Among the major regional banks, Citizens is the most active with 675 jobs posted. Other notable retail bank job postings include PNC (219), Capital One and Keycorp with 139 and 116 respectively.
Banking jobs snapshot: European highlights
In Europe, BNP Paribas is the most active for the second week running with 285 new job postings.
KBC lists 273 new job postings ahead of UK-headquartered Standard Chartered and Barclays with 251 and 237 respectively.
Other banks listing new listings in three figures include Credit Suisse (142), UBS (113) and ING (111).
Banking jobs snapshot: best of the rest
Outside the major US and European banking markets, Canadian banks are active with new job postings. Scotiabank posts 267 new roles ahead of BMO (200) and CIBC (126).
RBC (121) and Desjardins (105) are also active.
Elsewhere, ANZ posts 146 new roles ahead of NAB (93), Macquarrie (80) and Westpac (73).
Japan’s MUFG posts 89 new roles while DBS has 83 new posts.
This weekly article will summarise jobs activity in the banking sector for the previous week. In addition, it will highlight posted jobs of significance and identifies jobs market trends and insights from GlobalData’s proprietary Intelligence Center datatool that are of relevance for the industry.
