Where a financial analyst can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a financial analyst already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Financial analysts conduct economic research and elicit valuable analyses on financial matters such as profitability, liquidity, solvency, and asset management. They provide recommendations on financial matters for decision-making processes. Financial analysts work in both the public and the private sector.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 43%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 0difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 47required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- corporate investment banker 43% covered · difficulty 56.9
- investment analyst 41% covered · difficulty 61.3
- securities analyst 39% covered · difficulty 63.4
- investment manager 37% covered · difficulty 68.6
- investment adviser 35% covered · difficulty 68.6
- actuarial consultant 33% covered · difficulty 63.5
- mergers and acquisitions analyst 33% covered · difficulty 64.5
- investment fund management assistant 32% covered · difficulty 66.8
- mutual fund broker 32% covered · difficulty 65.4
- venture capitalist 31% covered · difficulty 67.7
- cost analyst 31% covered · difficulty 65.5
- corporate treasurer 30% covered · difficulty 68.2
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financial analyst is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a financial analyst 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.