Raffles Associates

We recruit professionals, junior and senior executives in the Banking,
Auditing & Financial Services, Commercial, Industrial, Legal and IT sectors throughout Asia.

Placement Specialist For Financial Professionals

Raffles Associates

We uphold the highest reputation in serving our clients by delivering the best quality
and timely results with professionalism and utmost confidentiality.

Placement Specialist For Financial Professionals

ABOUT US & OUR MISSION

Raffles Associates is an Executive Search firm with a commitment to uphold the highest reputation in serving our clients by delivering the best quality and timely results with professionalism and utmost confidentiality. We recruit professionals, junior and senior executives in the Banking, Auditing & Financial Services, Commercial, Industrial, Legal and IT sectors throughout Asia.

Raffles Associates is strongly committed to a search process that encompasses:

A thorough knowledge of the job specifications, specific competencies and personal attributes of the candidates being searched.
A good understanding of the clients’ needs, their organisational structure & culture, and business practices.
Strong communication links with the clients’ human resources departments and the user departments to ensure regular feedback on the search process and status.
Constant and close interaction & cooperation among our team members to optimally and speedily meet the needs of our clients.
To conduct business with complete professionalism. All information concerning our clients and candidates will be treated with highest confidentiality.

OUR PROCESS

We adopt the following methodology in every Search:

1. Obtain a thorough understanding of our clients’ requirements in arriving at an ideal candidate profile.

2. Formulate a search strategy to identify targeted industries and companies.

3. Execute the strategy using our comprehensive information network and in-house data bank.

4. Conduct in-depth interviews with candidates to evaluate their technical expertise, management maturity, personality, dynamism and compatibility with the job specifications.

5. Present top candidates’ profiles to clients together with our comments and recommendations.

6. Arrange meetings between clients and candidates to facilitate smooth and efficient recruitment.

7. Assist with salary negotiation and reference checks to ensure that the most appropriate candidates are appointed.

8. Keep in touch with the successful candidates to ensure that they adjust and integrate well into the new organisation.

OUR SCOPE OF COVERAGE

Banking & Financial Services Sector

Our Consultants are high calibre professionals with years of experience in consumer banking, corporate banking, private banking, investment banking, global markets, and audit industry. These consultants understand global financial markets and are reputed to be the effective in recruiting for the fast moving Financial Services Industry. Our area of coverage includes:

Consumer Banking
Institutional/ Corporate Banking
Private Banking
Finance, Accountants, Public & Internal Auditors.
Corporate & Personal tax Professionals.
Management & Business Consultants
Debt and Equities (sale, trading, origination and structuring)
Treasury (foreign exchange, interest rates, equities, commodities, and derivatives)
Middle and Back-Office (risk management, credits, compliance, secretarial, legal and operations)
Fund/ Asset Management
Investment Banking (corporate finance, structured & project finance, M & A, direct investment)
Structured Trade Finance/ Commodities
Internet & E-Banking

Commercial and Industrial Sectors

Raffles Associates has Search Specialists with years of accumulated experience in Commercial & Industrial sectors. Our team’s extensive exposure in these sectors is invaluable in assisting clients throughout the region to build effective, results-driven and innovative management teams to penetrate the emerging markets. The industries we cover include:

Electronics
Manufacturing
Hospitality
Building and Construction
Logistics
Fast Moving Consumer Goods
Food & Beverage
Retail & Wholesale
Power & Energy
Transport & Shipping

Completed Assignments

Successful assignments completed by our Consultants include:

Consumer Banking, Corporate Banking, Private Banking, Investment Banking and Corporate Finance Professionals.
Product Specialists & Controllers.
Risk Management and Compliance Professionals.
Fixed Income Sales Professionals – foreign bonds coverage, regional coverage, corporate coverage, and central financial institutions coverage.
Foreign Exchange Sales and Trading Professionals – spot, forward, futures and options.
Credit and Interest Rates Derivatives Sales, Structuring and Trading Professionals.

Futures and Options Sales Professionals.
Fixed Income Research Analysts.
Equity Derivatives Sales and Trading Professionals.
Commodities Specialists.
Economists.
Accountants, Public & Internal Auditors, and Finance professionals.
Human Resource Professionals.
Corporate & Personal Tax Specialists.
Information Technology Professionals.
Legal Counsels.

SENIOR MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM OF PROFESSIONALS

We strongly believe that the quality of people makes all the difference in deciding whether the organisation is brilliant, or just average/ mediocre. We therefore employ and retain the best people in our firm by identifying, evaluating and recruiting the top talents available in the market in servicing our clients.

Our Consultants comprise Professionals with wide consulting and industry experience. They are people who have developed a thorough understanding of the art of executive search. With their industry experience and connections, our Consultants effectively and efficiently deliver the best candidates to our clients in a most timely manner.

A B ONG, Managing Director, has more than 25 years of experience in the banking industry. During that period, he held senior executive positions at both the local Singapore and foreign banks, spanning the area of Corporate Banking, Private Banking and Consumer Banking. His banking career also saw him being based at different locations like Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. His many years of exposure in the banking management, where one of his major duties was talent hunting/ hiring of effective senior executives and his intensive involvement in Executive Search in the last 8 years have enabled A B to deliver very sharp, precise and effective search results to the clients.

Complementing his wide banking and executive search exposure, A B holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business (Accounting) from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

Sandy Lim, Director, has worked for 15 years as Head of Department in a Singapore Statutory Board, overseeing the marketing & promotions, design& exhibitions of the Organisation. In addition, Sandy spent more than 5 years in the advertising industry as an Art & Creative Director of established regional and global advertising agencies. Her exposure in Senior Management role and the creative role provides Sandy with a wide network of contacts, and sharp discerning ability in targeting and reaching the right caliber professionals.

Besides her extensive experience in senior management, Sandy has a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Communication, and a Diploma in Design from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Canada.

Claudia Seah, Director, has more than 9 years of experience as a Manager in the Human Resources Department of companies involved in various industries. She has been exposed in the areas of recruitment, talent management, compensation & benefits, and other related human resources matters.

Having involved in Executive Search for the last 3 years, and her extensive exposure in the human resources management have resulted in Claudia developing an excellent ability in scouring the market effectively for the most suitable and outstanding candidates for the clients’ recruitment and talent needs. Her fine sense of discernment for quality candidates developed over the years enables Claudia to fulfill her mandates with candidates of the right qualities promptly.

Supplementing her vast exposure in Executive Search and Human Resources work, Claudia possesses a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts & Social Science from National University of Singapore.

Esther Tan , Director, has worked for 2 years as a Public Auditor in one of the Big Four Accounting firms, and 7 years as a Private Banker with global banks based in Singapore. In addition, she has also worked as an Internal Auditor in a global bank, Finance and Administration Manager in the IT industry, and as a Manager & Education Counsellor in the education industry. Esther has therefore extensive working experience in private banking, finance & auditing, and other industries. This exposure gives Esther an edge when sourcing for candidates in the banking & financial industry in general, and private banking & wealth management in particular, as well as those in the accounting and auditing professions.

Academically, Esther holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Australian National University, and is a certified Public Accountant of Australia.

Simon Ong, Director, has more than 25 years of working experience, holding senior positions in the Hotel, Pharmaceutical, Electronic Manufacturing and Trading industries in Singapore and Malaysia. His exposure spans across British multinationals, Singapore and Malaysian corporate organisations in the aspects of Marketing & Sales, Operations, HR & Administration. With his exposure and network of contacts in both Singapore and Malaysia, Simon is able to effectively search for the required talents across both these countries and beyond.

Academically, Simon is equipped with a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and a Diploma in Marketing.

SOME OF THE MAJOR CLIENTS WE HAVE WORKED WITH

CONTACT

Email: connect@rafflesassociates.com

Singapore: #10-11 International Plaza, 10 Anson Road, Singapore 079903.

Malaysia: 17, Jalan Kemunting, Kebun Teh, 80250 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.