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Malaysia’s salary and job trends for Q3 2017 across three sectors

Ambition has recently released its Q3 2017 Quarterly Market Insights which covers salary and job trends in Malaysia. In this report, it covers salary and job outlook data across three sectors: 

Finance and accounting

According to the report, demand for skilled finance and accounting talent has continued to gather pace in Malaysia throughout Q2 2017. The country continued to benefit from the offshoring of functions from higher cost locations in the Asia region, resulting in an accompanying demand for professionals to support these functions.

Other than that, some key takeaways include:

  • Steady increase in the demand for technical financial accountants and auditors.
  • With companies in Malaysia growing manufacturing and supply chain operations, there is an increase demand for finance and accounting professionals with strong experience partnering with these operational business functions.
  • Demand for shared services finance professionals remained acute in Q2 2017 with a growing demand of global talent.

Wani- ambition - banking

Additionally, hiring in the banking and financial sector in Singapore will remain optimistic in certain areas - especially in regulatory and corporate governance. In fact, the report showed that head of compliance in Singapore with more than 15 years of experience earns a salary range of more than S$250k annually. Full findings for salary and job trends in Singapore's banking and financial market here.

The banking sector in Hong Kong was hiring all levels of professionals for different support functions even if it isn't at the volume expected. However, retail and private banking will continue to look for both frontline and support staff with skills in areas such as sales, digital and cross-border marketing, client eervices, client due diligence, and compliance. Compliance managing directors will be earning more than HK$2.3M annually. For further findings on the salary and job trends of the banking and financial services in Hong Kong, click here.

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