Where a financial manager can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a financial manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Financial managers handle all the matters in reference to the finance and investments of a company. They manage financial operations of companies such as the assets, liabilities, equity and cash flow aiming to maintain the financial health of the company and operative viability. Financial managers evaluate the strategic plans of the company in financial terms, maintain transparent financial operations for taxation and auditing bodies, and create the financial statements of the company at the end of the fiscal year.
Also known as CFO, financial director, finance manager, chief financial officer, financial administrator, finance chief, corporate finance manager.
Managers 106 skills on file 12 career moves 12 above 60% overlap Closest: budget manager, 77%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- budget manager 77% covered · difficulty 29.6
- accounting manager 75% covered · difficulty 35.6
- financial controller 75% covered · difficulty 27
- accounting analyst 74% covered · difficulty 29.4
- investment fund management assistant 70% covered · difficulty 34.3
- public finance accountant 69% covered · difficulty 30.7
- investment manager 67% covered · difficulty 41.6
- corporate treasurer 66% covered · difficulty 37
- investor relations manager 66% covered · difficulty 40.6
- investment fund manager 65% covered · difficulty 45.5
- credit manager 64% covered · difficulty 44.2
- bank manager 64% covered · difficulty 46.2
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A financial manager needs 38 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- liaise with auditors communication, collaboration and creativity
- supervise accounting operations management skills
- monitor charity's budget information skills
- accounting entries business, administration and law
- liquidity management business, administration and law
- report on overall management of a business communication, collaboration and creativity
- prepare tax returns forms information skills
- support development of annual budget management skills
- monitor financial accounts information skills
- evaluate budgets management skills
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Financial manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. 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 manager’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.