Robert
Walters, one of the world’s largest financial services recruitment firm, has
launched an Indonesia office in anticipation of a surge of demand for talented bankers.

The new office will have an initial focus on banking
and financial services including wealth management, and sales and marketing,
with further plans to expand into human resources, information technology as
well as supply chain, procurement and logistics, said the firm in a statement.

It is the second Asia office that Robert Walters has opened
this year after launching in Ho Chi Minh. It also has a
presence in in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Mainland
China.

Robert
Walters' new operations in Indonesia come in response to an increasing demand
from both clients and candidates for specialist and international recruitment services
in Indonesia - currently the world's fourth largest country by population and
the biggest economy in Southeast Asia.

"Indonesia is being talked about as the extra
'I' in BRI(I)C - Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China, countries deemed
to be at similar stages of economic growth. Indonesia has shown strong GDP
growth in the last few years, a growing middle class population and more
foreign investment - which are all key ingredients for us as a recruitment firm
to be setting up an office in the country," said Mark Ellwood, managing
director of Asia for the firm.

Robert Walters is hoping to capitalise on the entrance of numerous
foreign multinationals which it believes are gaining ground in the region.
“We have seen a spike of demand for middle to senior management professionals
and hope to offer exemplary levels of service and introduce a highly
professional level of recruitment that the market has yet to experience,” said
Ian Robertson, country manager for Robert Walters Indonesia.