Where a financial markets back office administrator can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a financial markets back office administrator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Financial markets back office administrators perform administrative tasks for all the transactions registered in the trading room. They process transactions involving securities, derivatives, foreign exchange, commodities, and manage the clearing and settling of trades.
Also known as operations manager, back office administrator, broker assistant, back office payments assistant, settlements administrator, operations officer, settlements officer, financial markets back office operator, broker clerk, brokerage clerk, settlements clerk, settlements manager.
Clerical support workers 29 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: foreign exchange cashier, 71%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A financial markets back office administrator needs 13 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- handle paperwork management skills
- office administration business, administration and law
- electronic communication engineering, manufacturing and construction
- office software information and communication technologies (icts)
- maintain records of financial transactions information skills
- manage administrative systems management skills
- financial markets business, administration and law
- perform clerical duties management skills
- financial products business, administration and law
- banking activities business, administration and law
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a financial markets back office administrator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- back office specialist 63% covered · difficulty 37.3
- investment clerk 63% covered · difficulty 37.9
- middle office analyst 63% covered · difficulty 37.3
- bank teller 56% covered · difficulty 43.5
- foreign exchange cashier 53% covered · difficulty 46.2
- insurance clerk 43% covered · difficulty 55
- shipbroker 36% covered · difficulty 60.3
- education administrator 36% covered · difficulty 60.4
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Financial markets back office administrator is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. 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 markets back office administrator’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.