Where a financial auditor can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a financial auditor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Financial auditors collect and examine financial data for clients, organisations and companies. They ensure the financial data is properly maintained and free of material misstatements due to error or fraud, that it adds up, and functions legally and effectively. They review lending and credit policies or numbers in databases and documents, evaluate, consult and assist the source of the transaction if necessary. They use their review of the client's financial governance as assurance to give testimony to the shareholders, stakeholders and board of directors of the organisation or company that all is up to par.
Also known as auditor, finance auditor, internal auditor, audit manager, chartered accountant, finances auditor, financial examiner, senior internal auditor, bank auditor, external examiner, financial systems analyst, bank examiner.
Professionals 60 skills on file 12 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: audit supervisor, 61%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- accounting manager 46% covered · difficulty 63.1
- accountant 46% covered · difficulty 61.7
- bookkeeper 41% covered · difficulty 59.2
- bank account manager 39% covered · difficulty 63.4
- financial broker 39% covered · difficulty 58.3
- corporate treasurer 39% covered · difficulty 61.3
- bank teller 37% covered · difficulty 63.8
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A financial auditor needs 22 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- monitor banking activities information skills
- arrange audit information skills
- inspect tax returns assisting and caring
- develop audit plan management skills
- accounting entries business, administration and law
- pose questions referring to documents communication, collaboration and creativity
- check accounting records information skills
- accounting department processes business, administration and law
- financial department processes business, administration and law
- prepare financial auditing reports information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a financial auditor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Financial auditor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a financial auditor’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.