Join the Portman International team

Employees at Portman International are treated as individuals with career paths that are personalised and tailored to the person's particular strengths and specialisation.

Keith is a law graduate, who joined the company last May. He is working as a junior lawyer in the legal and corporate department. He is regularly seconded to the company's Dublin and London offices for periods of two months a year. When not at the foreign offices, he works at the Malta office with the rest of the legal and corporate team.

Bernardette joined the company in 1999 after completing her BA Hons in Accountancy in 1997. Last year she was promoted to assistant manager, is responsible for the client accounting and tax function relating to the company's portfolio of Irish companies and is Portman International's EU VAT specialist.

These are just two of the experienced staff at Portman International that will be putting up a stand once again at the Careers Convention at the University of Malta between tomorrow and Friday.

"We are selective about whom we recruit," Josef Said, who heads the company's HR department, said. "This is not about mass recruitment. You are not just a number.

"We look for quality employees and are prepared to apply considerable resources to invest in them and offer them the support they need to pursue their studies. We operate an open door policy and give each member of staff the individual attention they need. We have a young team and organise many after-hours activities."

Portman International is not only recruiting graduates, but even those with three or four years' academic achievement. They are constantly on the look-out for people with the right attitude and aptitude to start a career with the company.

Managing director David Marinelli described Portman as a 'boutique' service organisation. "Our employees enjoy the excitement of competing at a global level, speaking directly to our foreign clients and having the opportunity to work at our offices in London and Dublin.

"We offer the right place to the right person, and take each person's individual development seriously." The company's management development programme lasts eight months and the company is an accredited ACCA Training Practice.

Portman International traces its origins to a services-oriented organisation set up in 1986 in London. Since then, it has established its headquarters in Malta and successfully provides a varied range of accounting and tax, audit, legal and corporate, regulatory and compliance, and trading support services.

Portman International employs over 60 professionals and has specialised teams of lawyers and accountants. Thanks to the company's membership of the worldwide TIAG network of accountants and its sister TAG Law network of lawyers, the firm can also assist clients across the globe.

The two networks have 220 member firms operating out of nearly 400 offices in almost 90 countries and employing over 8,000 professionals.