Close Brothers Reviews

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unfeasible targets set in certain months against other branches, needs to be more tailored towards individual branches to produce a more accurate account of performance
high turnover of staff

Cons

Not all senior managers are open to try new innovative solutions. I was offered a job which promised I implement a lot of new technologies but I did not get the opportunity. My team's senior management are happy with traditional methods and are afraid to change. I waited for about a year to use my core skills, kept asking my senior management team, but it did not happen. They kept saying let's not complicate things - what we are doing is close enough to advanced work, etc.. So I resigned.

Cons

Pay is definitely not great for the job you do (however their is bonus).
Internal career progression can be difficult

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Despite being a great place to work, Close has a very bureaucratic culture.

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Technology / systems are a bit behind the curve (it's so complicated to process expenses that I generally don't bother!)

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You will only get promotion if you become favourite of your boss regardless how hard working and good you are at work. You will get no appreciation for the good work you have done even if your productivity is excellent. Even HR department is not unbiased they work on the instructions of department heads. Overall not a good place to work for longer period of time.

Cons

With quite a lot of change at the senior management level, progress through the ranks is slow. Salaries are not as high as they are for equivalent jobs with competitors.

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Management treat you like slaves with zero respect or appreciation.

There is no consistency - the management and processes have changed multiple times in the last 3 years because they are patient enough to see anything through.

Have a habit of changing job titles to make people redundant.

Would rather pay agency fees and hire external applicants on higher salaries than promote internally and increase the internal staff members pay.

Jobs are very much the same thing every day with little to no variety.

Jobs are often sold as something different to what the employee will end up doing once they're hired.

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The senior management in invoicing finance needs swapping out, it's an old boys club and the main guy is a bully.