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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Management Trainee Program at Ferguson

A. F. Ferguson & Co. (AFF), a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the largest and most distinguished advisory/ accountancy firm in Pakistan. Our network firm, PwC, is the Global Leader in providing advisory/ assurance services with over 140,000 staff in 149 countries and annual revenues in excess of USD 22 billion.
For the last few years, AFF has been focused on developing its advisory/ consultancy business across all sectors of the economy. In this pursuit, we have developed a dedicated Risk Advisory Services (RAS) Division within the firm along the lines of PwC. This Division serves different Lines of Businesses especially Financial Services (i.e. Banking, Insurance, Capital Market entities etc.), Oil and Gas and Telecom.
Our RAS Team comprises of high-calibre individuals representing diversified disciplines ranging from MBAs, CAs and CFAs to people of specialized skills such as risk management (FRM), actuarial sciences, financial econometrics/ engineering, mathematics and statistics etc. Majority of our team members have served at senior positions in various banks, oil and gas and telecom companies in the past. This mix of skill set from diversified disciplines and sectors puts us in the best position to serve the needs of our clients to their satisfaction.
The following is an indicative range of our services:
Basel II Advisory
COSO/ SOX 404 Advisory
Business Process Re-engineering
ERP Services
Business Process/ Manual Development
Risk Management
Due Diligence
Asset Liability Management and Derivatives Advisory
Strategy Consulting
Internal Audit
Fraud Risk Services
Benchmarking Studies and Gap Analysis
Efficiency Audits
Review/ Design of Organisational Structure and Roles
Regulatory & Compliance Reviews
Solvency II
Our RAS practice is currently engaged in providing above-mentioned services to a number of large and medium sized organizations and has become the largest advisory practice in Pakistan over a very short span of time. The firm is also constantly working on future initiatives and projects and aims to maintain its market leadership in advisory.
We have recently introduced our Fast Track Management Trainee Program for 2007 under which we are seeking dynamic and enthusiastic Fresh graduates from renowned institutions. Individuals selected under this program will form a key part of our RAS Financial Services Practice and will have access to the methodology and tools developed by PricewaterhouseCoopers worldwide. They will also undergo internal and on-job training including those conducted with the help of our local and PwC Subject Matter Experts/ Trainers.

Eligibility Criteria:
MBAs graduated in May 2007 with specialization in Finance.
Candidates should possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
Internship in renowned consultancy organisations/ accountancy firms with specific focus on risk management advisory / process development in banks will be considered a Plus.
As a first step in the selection process, we have already conducted an orientation/ group discussion session for a group of interested candidates to explain to them about AFF and in particular RAS, RAS product profile and services and most importantly the key features of our Management Training Program for 2007. The session also highlighted the career prospects and progression opportunities and a description of the role of Management Trainees during the training period of six months and going forward when they would be serving as consultants in our organization.
We would like to provide another chance to those individuals who could not make it to our earlier session. You are accordingly informed that our next similar session is due to be held on July 17, 2007 at 11:00 A.M (Sharp) at the following address:
A.F. Ferguson & Co.
Chartered Accountants
State Life Building No. 1-C (First Floor)
I.I. Chundrigar Road,
Karachi.
If you are interested in attending the session, please send soft copy of your resume to saad.mukhtar@pk.pwc.com by July 14, 2007.
For further clarification, kindly contact the following:
Saad Mukhtar Ahmed
Risk Advisory Services(RAS)
AF Ferguson & Co.
Phone: 021-2426711 (Ext) 313
0300-8208210

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