Frontier adds entry level staffers

The asset consultant has grown its team by two more to start the year.

Ellie Chen has re-joined Frontier as an associate in the client consulting team.

Chen previously worked at the asset consultancy before relocating to China around eighteen months ago.

Her prior experience includes stints at KPMG and Kidder Williams in audit and finance roles.

Meantime, Sneha Dengane has joined the asset consultancy's dedicated technology team as an application developer.

Frontier's tech offering has been ranked the industry leader in the Peter Lee Associates investment management survey for the last six years, with the firm building an internal team of 12 technology professionals to work alongside Frontier's investment specialists.

Dengane joins Frontier from Deloitte, where she worked on projects in e-commerce and superannuation.

Her development experience tilts toward the front-end, crafting user-friendly interfaces. She has also worked as an assistant professor teaching coding at the University of Mumbai.

According to Frontier's head of people and culture, Sarah Guthleben, the competition for roles has shifted significantly in the last eighteen months.

"We're currently recruiting entry level roles and have received more than double the number of applications we had for similar roles back in 2022," she said.

"Despite the increased supply of applicants seeking roles, salary expectations at the more junior end are still high, though there are signs of this tempering at the more senior end."

In addition to entry level investment and data analysis roles, Frontier is also hiring senior roles in compliance and client consulting.