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US-based Global Asset Management Firm – Head of Finance
Optia assisted a Global Asset Management Firm secure a new Head of Finance with strong strategic corporate financial planning skills to help spearhead their business in Japan.
The client was a US-based global Asset Management firm, seeking a Head for their Japan Finance Department. The position required that the candidate have an intimate understanding of strategic corporate financial planning. It was a key position, pivotal to the success of their business in Japan going forward. They were aggressively trying to fill the role and contacted Optia, urging us to present them with some good candidates.
The client called regular meetings at Optia’s office to check on progress of the search and a couple of other important roles we were working on for them. Competition for senior bilingual finance and accounting specialists amongst foreign financial institutions in Tokyo is fierce. In this case however we were fortunate to have conducted a similar search just 6 months prior and had access to a strong network of talent. One the candidates we had short-listed for the previous search was now in a better position to make a career move and was an excellent fit for the role. We introduced the candidate to the client and the process went smoothly, with both sides being positive. Final stage negotiations, which included the setting up of dinner appointments with executive management on the client side, organizing a signing bonus to compensate for the candidate’s loss of bonus from his company, start date…etc.. proved critical in securing the candidate for our client.
Additionally the client successfully hired the candidate within their budget. The candidate, who very quickly showed his worth within their organization, won his dream role with a compensation in-line with his experience and education. Optia, as a recruiting firm, had proven to ourselves that continuously and diligently seeking out good candidates had provided us with the means to swiftly fill the role.
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