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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.

Also known as back office administrator, back office clerk, back office officer, financial office specialist.

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

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
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
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from back office specialist, each one a link to that move’s record. 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.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A back office specialist needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • manage financial aspects of a company management skills
  • handle paperwork management skills
  • office administration business, administration and law
  • offer financial services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • monitor company policy information skills
  • business processes business, administration and law
  • provide financial product information communication, collaboration and creativity
  • use office systems management skills
  • coordinate operational activities management skills
  • office software information and communication technologies (icts)
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a back office specialist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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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

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a back office specialist’s work. 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.