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      <title>Bloomberg - Japanese Speaking  Entry Level Financial Sales</title>
      <description>Title: Bloomberg - Japanese Speaking  Entry Level Financial Sales&lt;br&gt;
Salary: Excellent&lt;br&gt;
Location: London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: English, Japanese&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 3rd Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We are looking for motivated individuals who are looking to embark on a career leading to financial sales to join our entry-level Financial Sales Training Program. You will learn about the financial markets, the players and how they function in the global economy. Through training and first-hand experience, you'll gain the knowledge needed to earn credibility with our clients.&lt;br /&gt;
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Your career will begin in the Global Customer Support Department, where you will gain a comprehensive introduction to our products and services, our clients, as well as insight into the global financial markets.&lt;br /&gt;
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The next stage of the process will take you to Sales Desk, where you'll develop a deeper insight into the influence our products have on the financial markets. By keeping in touch with our clients throughout the day, assisting with their use of the Bloomberg Professional® Service, and demonstrating the advantage our products can give them, you will develop the knowledge and skills you need to progress into our Sales team.&lt;br /&gt;
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Working as part of Bloomberg's Europe-Middle East-Africa Sales team will give you the opportunity to build relationships with our clients, and the ability to sell and support the solutions we provide to these high-level professionals. You will take responsibility for maintaining and growing our business in both existing and new accounts. This means you will spend as much time as possible in front of clients, so that you understand their business inside-out. Depending on your territory, this may involve frequent international travel. Enjoy the challenges and rewards of a career in Bloomberg Sales.&lt;br /&gt;
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Applications are welcome from non-graduates with equivalent experience.&lt;br /&gt;
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Interest in the Financial Markets is essential&lt;br /&gt;
Ability to provide exceptional customer service&lt;br /&gt;
Fluency in English is essential&lt;br /&gt;
Fluency in Japanese required&lt;br /&gt;
Excellent verbal and written communication skills&lt;br /&gt;
Multi-tasking skills and ability to work well under pressure&lt;br /&gt;
Strong problem solving skills&lt;br /&gt;
Ability to be a team player</description>
      <link>http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/job-157401.html</link>
      <pubDate>2008-12-03 09:49:52</pubDate>
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      <title>Bloomberg - Global Customer Support Representative - Intern</title>
      <description>Title: Bloomberg - Global Customer Support Representative - Intern&lt;br&gt;
Salary: Excellent&lt;br&gt;
Location: London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 3rd Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The Company&lt;br /&gt;
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Bloomberg is the leading global provider of financial data, news and analytics.&lt;br /&gt;
The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service and Bloomberg's media services provide real time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading, news and&lt;br /&gt;
communications tools in a single, integrated package to corporations, news&lt;br /&gt;
organizations, financial and legal professionals and individuals around the&lt;br /&gt;
world.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Role&lt;br /&gt;
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The Global Customer Support Department provides 24/7 support to our clients.&lt;br /&gt;
The aim of the department is to provide superior customer service with no wait&lt;br /&gt;
time. Our model follows the sun so that we always have 2 call centers open at&lt;br /&gt;
all times providing seamless service. We also provide multi-lingual support to&lt;br /&gt;
our clients. In the customer support role, you will gain an introduction to our products and services, our clients, as well as insight into the global financial markets. It&lt;br /&gt;
is a fast-paced environment and requires the ability to multi task. Good&lt;br /&gt;
communication and problem-solving skills are necessary to be successful in this&lt;br /&gt;
role.&lt;br /&gt;
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Duties:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
-Provide superior customer service to our clients on inbound phone calls.&lt;br /&gt;
-Transfer customer calls to appropriate staff.&lt;br /&gt;
-Outbound calling will be necessary to introduce new clients to Bloomberg.&lt;br /&gt;
-Identify, research, and resolve customer issues using proprietary company&lt;br /&gt;
software.&lt;br /&gt;
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Qualifications:&lt;br /&gt;
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-Ability to provide exceptional customer service&lt;br /&gt;
-Strong telephone etiquette&lt;br /&gt;
-Excellent verbal and written communication skills&lt;br /&gt;
-Multi-tasking skills and ability to work well under pressure&lt;br /&gt;
-Strong problem solving skills&lt;br /&gt;
-Ability to be a team player&lt;br /&gt;
-Fluency in English&lt;br /&gt;
-Fluency in a second language a requirement such as Spanish, French, Italian,&lt;br /&gt;
Portuguese, German and Japanese&lt;br /&gt;
-Experience in a call center environment a plus&lt;br /&gt;
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      <link>http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/job-200521.html</link>
      <pubDate>2008-12-03 09:49:51</pubDate>
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      <title>Bloomberg - Financial Data Processing Representative</title>
      <description>Title: Bloomberg - Financial Data Processing Representative&lt;br&gt;
Salary: Excellent&lt;br&gt;
Location: London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Hebrew&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 3rd Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The Role&lt;br /&gt;
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We are seeking highly motivated people to join the Global Data team. This group provides real time market data which is used by our clients to make informed investment decisions.&lt;br /&gt;
Your main responsibilities will be to update, maintain and process data for a designated market area. We are looking to recruit into a range of data teams including Equities, Fixed Income and other financial securities.&lt;br /&gt;
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For these entry level positions we are looking for candidates with a passion for the financial markets that with extensive training and development will help drive our product forward.&lt;br /&gt;
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Responsibilities:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
- Sourcing and qualifying relevant data&lt;br /&gt;
- Updating and processing data onto the Bloomberg database in a timely manner&lt;br /&gt;
- Maintaining and enhancing the existing database&lt;br /&gt;
- Responding to client queries regarding the data within assigned market&lt;br /&gt;
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Qualifications:&lt;br /&gt;
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- Fluency in a second language is essential - either European, Russian, Japanese, Hebrew or Arabic&lt;br /&gt;
- Keen interest in financial markets (though experience or finance qualification not required)&lt;br /&gt;
- Excellent communication and customer service skills&lt;br /&gt;
- Speed and accuracy when processing data&lt;br /&gt;
- Experience of processing data beneficial&lt;br /&gt;
- Excel experience would be beneficial&lt;br /&gt;
- Ability to multi task&lt;br /&gt;
- Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience&lt;br /&gt;
- EU work authorization required</description>
      <link>http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/job-200551.html</link>
      <pubDate>2008-12-03 09:49:50</pubDate>
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      <title>Bloomberg - Bilingual Data Sales Representative</title>
      <description>Title: Bloomberg - Bilingual Data Sales Representative&lt;br&gt;
Salary: Excellent&lt;br&gt;
Location: London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 3rd Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The Role&lt;br /&gt;
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We are searching for enterprising individuals to join our Data sales group. Data sales at Bloomberg is growing at a rapid pace and we are looking for swift and experienced professionals to help us expand our global sales operations. In this role, you will be responsible for the direct sales of reference and real-time financial data products. You will be managing accounts and providing solutions, organization-wide and to individual user groups and applications, within front, middle, and back office clients. You will use your strong interpersonal skills in this client facing role.&lt;br /&gt;
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Requirements&lt;br /&gt;
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-Understanding of operational and technical infrastructure of financial firms&lt;br /&gt;
-Knowledge of data licensing, warehousing and centralization&lt;br /&gt;
-Proven ability to identify new prospects and build lasting relationships&lt;br /&gt;
-Possession of existing financial contacts is advantageous&lt;br /&gt;
-Skills to provide maintenance and develop new sales within existing clients&lt;br /&gt;
-Aptitude to excel in a fast paced, rapidly growing environment&lt;br /&gt;
-Japanese, Italian, German, Spanish, French a plus&lt;br /&gt;
</description>
      <link>http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/job-201071.html</link>
      <pubDate>2008-12-03 09:49:46</pubDate>
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      <title>Japanese Speaking Consultant</title>
      <description>Title: Japanese Speaking Consultant&lt;br&gt;
Salary: to £100,000 pro rata&lt;br&gt;
Location: London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: Japanese&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 4th Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Job Title:		 Japanese speaking consultant &lt;br /&gt;
Skills:	                  MBA or equivalent&lt;br /&gt;
Salary:                      to £100K   pro-rata    (initially 6 months' contract)&lt;br /&gt;
Location:                   London City&lt;br /&gt;
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Advisory arm of major global financial institution is seeking an experienced business consultant to help client companies grow and prosper by capitalising on global finanical capital market trends. &lt;br /&gt;
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THE PERSON&lt;br /&gt;
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The successful candidate will be fluent in Japanese and preferably holding an MBA or similar qualification.  They should be able to converse with people at all levels in a company.  &lt;br /&gt;
This role is ideal for someone seeking an intellectually challenging role with a market leading institution.&lt;br /&gt;
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People First is a leading multilingual employment agency with a global network of offices in Europe, Australasia and North America.  Thank you for your application and we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.  We would however like to make you aware that due to the high number of applications we receive, we are only able to invite for interview those candidates whose skills and experience most closely match the job description.  For more information about People First and to view our other current vacancies, please visit our website www.people-first.co.uk/teamjapan. Please note that it is the responsibility of candidates applying for this vacancy to make enquiries of the UK Government about any relevant immigration requirements, and any other conditions that must be satisfied by law for a worker taking up employment within the UK.&lt;br /&gt;
</description>
      <link>http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/job-176121.html</link>
      <pubDate>2008-12-04 12:13:20</pubDate>
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      <title>Fluent Japanese Administrator</title>
      <description>Title: Fluent Japanese Administrator&lt;br&gt;
Salary: £20,000 - £25,000&lt;br&gt;
Location: Central London - London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: English, Japanese&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 3rd Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Corporate Administration Assistant – Fluent Japanese Essential&lt;br /&gt;
City of London&lt;br /&gt;
£20,000 - £25,000&lt;br /&gt;
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Our client is one of the world’s most comprehensive trading, investment, and service companies that provides support to businesses internationally.&lt;br /&gt;
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Position &lt;br /&gt;
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Summary Profile:&lt;br /&gt;
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To provide administrative support to the General Manager, Senior Managers and the Secretary in their London office.&lt;br /&gt;
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Key Responsibilities:&lt;br /&gt;
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o Arrange all meetings for the General Managers when required, including notification by email, coordination with other staff, meeting reservations and refreshments.&lt;br /&gt;
o Responsible for all travel arrangements including Eurostar reservations and booking hotels in the UK and abroad.&lt;br /&gt;
o Providing and supporting colleagues with fees, expenses and relevant travel documentation.&lt;br /&gt;
o Take minute meetings.&lt;br /&gt;
o Collecting and submitting monthly reports.&lt;br /&gt;
o Supporting management with conferences, business plans, compliance and control issues.&lt;br /&gt;
o Preparing documents and presentations when required.&lt;br /&gt;
o Covering in the absence of the Senior HR Administrator and Administrator when required.&lt;br /&gt;
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Person Specification &lt;br /&gt;
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Skills / Knowledge:&lt;br /&gt;
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o Fluent communication skills in English and Japanese (Verbal, written and listening)&lt;br /&gt;
o Ability to work independently or as part of a small team&lt;br /&gt;
o Good organisational skills&lt;br /&gt;
o Numerical and analytical skills&lt;br /&gt;
o Ability to manage and prioritise work load&lt;br /&gt;
o Good IT skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP and Outlook&lt;br /&gt;
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Experience:&lt;br /&gt;
o Experience of working within an administrative role supporting a team&lt;br /&gt;
o Experience of working within a large trading environment may be to an advantage&lt;br /&gt;
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Education:&lt;br /&gt;
o Minimum of 5 GCSE’s or equivilent including Maths and English&lt;br /&gt;
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If you feel that this is the right position for you, please apply immediately &lt;br /&gt;
</description>
      <link>http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/job-190371.html</link>
      <pubDate>2008-12-03 13:40:35</pubDate>
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      <title>Japanese speaking Researcher</title>
      <description>Title: Japanese speaking Researcher&lt;br&gt;
Salary: Competitive Salary&lt;br&gt;
Location: London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: Japanese&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 3rd Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Job Title:		Japanese speaking researcher&lt;br /&gt;
Skills:	              Japanese and English speaking with research experience&lt;br /&gt;
Salary:                £competitive     &lt;br /&gt;
Location:            London City&lt;br /&gt;
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Well respected fund manager is seeking an experienced Japanese speaking researcher within the areas of insurance and finance sectors of the UK and other European countries&lt;br /&gt;
The person would need to have an excellent education background together with an educated grasp of both written and spoken English and Japanese. Other European languages would be advantageous. &lt;br /&gt;
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People First is a leading multilingual employment agency with a global network of offices in Europe, Australasia and North America.  Thank you for your application and we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.  We would however like to make you aware that due to the high number of applications we receive, we are only able to invite for interview those candidates whose skills and experience most closely match the job description.  For more information about People First and to view our other current vacancies, please visit our website www.people-first.co.uk/teamjapan. Please note that it is the responsibility of candidates applying for this vacancy to make enquiries of the UK Government about any relevant immigration requirements, and any other conditions that must be satisfied by law for a worker taking up employment within the UK.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
</description>
      <link>http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/job-207111.html</link>
      <pubDate>2008-12-03 11:31:59</pubDate>
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      <title>Japanese spkg Account / Admin Manager      </title>
      <description>Title: Japanese spkg Account / Admin Manager      &lt;br&gt;
Salary: Competitive Salary&lt;br&gt;
Location: London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: Japanese&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 3rd Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Job Title:		Japanese speaking accounts and administration manager&lt;br /&gt;
Skills:	              Strong track record in accounts&lt;br /&gt;
Salary:                £competitive     &lt;br /&gt;
Location:            London City&lt;br /&gt;
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Well respected fund manager is seeking a Japanese speaking accounts and administration manager.  The responsibilities are wide ranging and include facilities, office lease and personnel matters and some company secretarial matters. They would also have to produce monthly, quarterly, half and yearly reports.&lt;br /&gt;
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The person would also have supervisory responsibility for 2  junior accounting and admin staff.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
People First is a leading multilingual employment agency with a global network of offices in Europe, Australasia and North America.  Thank you for your application and we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.  We would however like to make you aware that due to the high number of applications we receive, we are only able to invite for interview those candidates whose skills and experience most closely match the job description.  For more information about People First and to view our other current vacancies, please visit our website www.people-first.co.uk/teamjapan. Please note that it is the responsibility of candidates applying for this vacancy to make enquiries of the UK Government about any relevant immigration requirements, and any other conditions that must be satisfied by law for a worker taking up employment within the UK.&lt;br /&gt;
</description>
      <link>http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/job-207101.html</link>
      <pubDate>2008-12-03 11:26:08</pubDate>
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      <title>Japanese Spkg Desk Top Publisher   </title>
      <description>Title: Japanese Spkg Desk Top Publisher   &lt;br&gt;
Salary: £12.00 p/h&lt;br&gt;
Location: London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: Japanese&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 2nd Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Major financial house is seeking a temporary Japanese-speaking Desktop Publisher in their Global Research Production Group department. The role is to assist in Publication team deals with the distribution of this research internally and onto several external platforms.&lt;br /&gt;
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Title: Japanese Spaking Desk Top Publisher &lt;br /&gt;
Start: ASAP - to mid January 2009&lt;br /&gt;
Salary : £12 p/h&lt;br /&gt;
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Main purpose of the role:&lt;br /&gt;
-Ensure that all research is correctly presented and that they go out in a timely fashion to all internal and external research platforms&lt;br /&gt;
-Produce PowerPoint presentations for marketing and meetings by Japanese analysts, &lt;br /&gt;
-Liaise with printers to ensure documents are printed to spec.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Key Responsibilities:&lt;br /&gt;
1)DTP of Company Reports, Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly research products from the company and group company&lt;br /&gt;
2)Format Excel and Word files to a pdf format&lt;br /&gt;
3)Format Word documents&lt;br /&gt;
4)Format PowerPoint presentations &lt;br /&gt;
5)Liaise with printers on production, printing and pricing&lt;br /&gt;
6)Distribute research internally.&lt;br /&gt;
7)Submit document and index research for publishing to Bloomberg&lt;br /&gt;
8)Maintain in-house archive system for all research for compliance purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
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Essential Skills &amp; Experience&lt;br /&gt;
-Advanced Word, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat &lt;br /&gt;
-Ability to read Japanese&lt;br /&gt;
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People First is a leading multilingual employment agency with a global network of offices in Europe, Australasia and North America.  Thank you for your application and we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.  We would however like to make you aware that due to the high number of applications we receive, we are only able to invite for interview those candidates whose skills and experience most closely match the job description.  For more information about People First and to view our other current vacancies, please visit our website www.people-first.co.uk/teamjapan. Please note that it is the responsibility of candidates applying for this vacancy to make enquiries of the UK Government about any relevant immigration requirements, and any other conditions that must be satisfied by law for a worker taking up employment within the UK.&lt;br /&gt;
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</description>
      <link>http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/job-195021.html</link>
      <pubDate>2008-12-02 11:51:12</pubDate>
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      <title>Japanese Speaking Client Support  </title>
      <description>Title: Japanese Speaking Client Support  &lt;br&gt;
Salary: £25,500 pro rata&lt;br&gt;
Location: London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: Japanese&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 2nd Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Job title:	Japanese speaking Financial Client Support&lt;br /&gt;
Skills:	Financial knowledge, customer support, fluent in Japanese&lt;br /&gt;
Salary:	£25.5K, pro rata, on a temporary basis for 3- 6 months, rising up to £30K on a permanent basis + excellent benefits&lt;br /&gt;
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THE COMPANY&lt;br /&gt;
The world's premier voice and electronic interdealer broker, delivering specialist intermediary broking services to trading professionals in the wholesale financial markets. The group covers a very broad range of OTC financial products and services in energy, foreign exchange, interest rates, credit and equity markets, as well as data, commentary and indices.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE ROLE &lt;br /&gt;
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Your principal responsibilities will be to ensure customer satisfaction at all times, supporting customers around the world. You will take ownership of resolving customer, staff and vendor issues in addition to troubleshooting any queries and maintaining all administration as necessary. You will have strong written and communication skills, be energetic and willing and able to work within a team.&lt;br /&gt;
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This role requires shift work and you must be willing to work some nights, 4 weeks of night shifts, each 3 nights a week. Two weeks of day shifts, 5 days a week.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE PERSON&lt;br /&gt;
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You will be of graduate calibre, ideally with experience within finance, fluent in English as well as Japanese. You will have a strong interest and dedicated attitude towards working within support, especially the financial sector, in a 24/7 environment.&lt;br /&gt;
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People First is a leading multilingual employment agency with a global network of offices in Europe, Australasia and North America.  Thank you for your application and we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.  We would however like to make you aware that due to the high number of applications we receive, we are only able to invite for interview those candidates whose skills and experience most closely match the job description.  For more information about People First and to view our other current vacancies, please visit our website www.people-first.co.uk/teamjapan. Please note that it is the responsibility of candidates applying for this vacancy to make enquiries of the UK Government about any relevant immigration requirements, and any other conditions that must be satisfied by law for a worker taking up employment within the UK.&lt;br /&gt;
</description>
      <link>http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/job-194741.html</link>
      <pubDate>2008-12-02 10:39:30</pubDate>
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      <title>Japanese Spkg Reseacher / Analyst  </title>
      <description>Title: Japanese Spkg Reseacher / Analyst  &lt;br&gt;
Salary: to £30,000&lt;br&gt;
Location: Central London - London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: Japanese&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 1st Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Job Title:		Japanese speaking Researcher and analyst&lt;br /&gt;
Skills:	                Fluent Japanese and English with PC skills&lt;br /&gt;
Salary:                     to £30K&lt;br /&gt;
Location:                 Central London&lt;br /&gt;
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Major information company is seeking bright, enthusiastic candidate for a research and analyst role. They would be expected to have a demonstrable interest in telecommunications and IT and to have the competency to conduct B2B market research. Naturally, they also need to have an analytical and methodical approach to their work.  A financial background would also be advantageous.&lt;br /&gt;
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People First is a leading multilingual employment agency with a global network of offices in Europe, Australasia and North America.  Thank you for your application and we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.  We would however like to make you aware that due to the high number of applications we receive, we are only able to invite for interview those candidates whose skills and experience most closely match the job description.  For more information about People First and to view our other current vacancies, please visit our website www.people-first.co.uk/teamjapan. Please note that it is the responsibility of candidates applying for this vacancy to make enquiries of the UK Government about any relevant immigration requirements, and any other conditions that must be satisfied by law for a worker taking up employment within the UK.&lt;br /&gt;
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</description>
      <link>http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/job-188091.html</link>
      <pubDate>2008-12-01 12:37:35</pubDate>
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      <title>Japanese speaking Business Planning Manager</title>
      <description>Title: Japanese speaking Business Planning Manager&lt;br&gt;
Salary: £30,000  &lt;br&gt;
Location: London, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;
Languages: Japanese&lt;br&gt;
Posted: 1st Dec 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Job Title:		Japanese speaking Business Planning Manager&lt;br /&gt;
Skills:	                 SAP and MS Office&lt;br /&gt;
Salary:                     £30K&lt;br /&gt;
Location                   Outer London&lt;br /&gt;
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This is a great opportunity to join the planning department of a world leading consumer products company.  The person would be involved in preparing and implementing the half-yearly financial budget and developing plans for the longer term. They would have to ensure that Profit, Sales and Inventory targets are met.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE ROLE:&lt;br /&gt;
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The role involves managing the PSI process (Purchase, Sales and Inventory), gathering and analysing sales forecasts etc.&lt;br /&gt;
Additionally, the person would have to negotiate with vendors on price, lead and delivery times and determine pricing to ensure maximum sales and profitability. &lt;br /&gt;
They would also have to manage a small team&lt;br /&gt;
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Degree level education, good knowledge of SAP and MS Office in particular Excel skills&lt;br /&gt;
Naturally the person should be analytical and numerate with basic accountancy knowledge. They should also possess negotiation and people management skills.&lt;br /&gt;
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People First is a leading multilingual employment agency with a global network of offices in Europe, Australasia and North America.  Thank you for your application and we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.  We would however like to make you aware that due to the high number of applications we receive, we are only able to invite for interview those candidates whose skills and experience most closely match the job description.  For more information about People First and to view our other current vacancies, please visit our website www.people-first.co.uk/teamjapan. Please note that it is the responsibility of candidates applying for this vacancy to make enquiries of the UK Government about any relevant immigration requirements, and any other conditions that must be satisfied by law for a worker taking up employment within the UK.&lt;br /&gt;
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