Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a back office specialist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a back office specialist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Back office specialists perform operations of administrative and organisational nature in a financial company, in support of the front office. They process administration, take care of financial transactions, manage data and company documents and perform supportive tasks and other diverse back office operations in coordination with other parts of the company.

Clerical support workers 35 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: middle office analyst, 72%

middle office analyst 72% covered financial markets back office… 63% covered insurance clerk 52% covered investment clerk 50% covered foreign exchange cashier 41% covered back office specialist You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from back office specialist. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a back office specialist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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back office specialist is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a back office specialist already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.