CHP Consulting : Employer profile

Contact details: Phone: 020 7588 1800; Web: http://www.chpconsulting.com
Address:: 20 Gresham Street
London
EC2V 7JE
Location: Greater London
Additional location details: We are based in London and this is the hub for all European projects. This means you will be working in and around the UK but also in countries such as Sweden, Holland and Germany. We also have operations in the US, Australia and New Zealand which see a steady flow of UK consultants on secondment, so if this sounds like your kind of thing, we could make that happen to
Work sectors: IT and information services

Company profile

Who are we:

CHP Consulting is a medium-sized organisation with a small company culture and big company aspirations. Working in the asset finance industry, we are approached by top banks, equipment manufacturers and finance companies to help them improve their business performance through the application of our wide-ranging experience in this sector and market-leading software; ALFA Systems.
We are extremely proud of our track record of successful projects, a testament to the skills, experience and knowledge of our consultants who develop organically through the company from graduate joiner to Project Manager. We know that everyone is different so consultants are encouraged to carve out a career path which suits their own strengths.

Where do you start?

You will be trained at our London office in all things necessary to get you started on a project, usually for four to six weeks. You'll either be on a client site or based in the office and your first role will typically be software development. Over the next few years you will spend time working on different areas of our projects.

What is a project?

The first phase will be to plan what will happen during the project to ensure the business is transformed in the way the client envisioned. Apart from the design and development of the software, we also need to modify business processes to ensure the client is working as effectively as possible (since we are experts in their industry, we can help them do that), test that everything works, transfer all the data from the old system to ALFA, and provide support through the go-live process and into the future.

What about you?

What makes a good CHP consultant is the ability to see an end goal, break down the steps to get there, and put in the hard work to achieve it. Therefore, any hard-working and ambitious graduate can be successful as long as they have a logical mind, enjoy working as part of a team, have pride in the work that they do and see their career immersed in the worlds of both technology and finance. So if it's, Engineering, Geography, Modern Languages or Computer Science, we really don't mind your background, as long as you have a 2:1 from a good university and As and Bs at A-level (minimum 320 UCAS points). In return we will give you an annual salary of £35,000 plus a generous benefits package.

Culture

At CHP, we need our people to work hard but that doesn't necessarily mean long hours. We only recruit people who we think will get on with each other so the atmosphere is friendly and people genuinely enjoy doing things together. As a whole organisation, we have opportunities to get together every couple of months at our company meetings and we usually go abroad for the Annual Conference which is never lacking in fun. There are groups aplenty to join if you're interested in activities like football, running, photography or squash.