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Financial Services Activities Auxiliary To Financial Services And Insurance Activities Activities Auxiliary To Financial Services And Insurance Activities 66 - Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities
107 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 May 2014
Employment effect (start)
27 May 2014
Foreseen end date
31 May 2019
Description
Spence and Partners, a Belfast-based financial services company, has announced that it is to create 107 new jobs at its city centre offices. The company offers pensions advice to its client companies. The source notes that the company currently employes 38 people in Belfast and this will increase to 145 over the next five years.
Full details of the types of jobs are not known, but it has been revealed that some of the positions will be in software. The expansion is being backed by Invest NI, who will provide significant funding for the expansion.
Sources
27 May 2014: Belfast Telegraph
27 May 2014: BBC Website
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Spence and Partners, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 77109, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77109.
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