Occupations/11-3031.00

Financial Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate accounting, investing, banking, insurance, securities, and other financial activities of a branch, office, or department of an establishment.

Bachelor’s

Usually a four-year bachelor’s degree.

AI automation risk

77%

Higher automation risk

Human characteristics

46%

Balanced human and task mix

Task orientation

74%

Higher automation risk

A day in this job

  • Mostly human

    Oversee training programs.

  • Task

    Establish and maintain relationships with individual or business customers or provide assistance with problems these customers may encounter.

  • Task

    Oversee the flow of cash or financial instruments.

The tasks we can read here lean on people, judgment, or hands-on work. The AI risk number is still this job’s rank against other occupations.

Core tasks

  1. 01Establish and maintain relationships with individual or business customers or provide assistance with problems these customers may encounter.
  2. 02Oversee the flow of cash or financial instruments.
  3. 03Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of workers in branches, offices, or departments of establishments, such as branch banks, brokerage firms, risk and insurance departments, or credit departments.
  4. 04Recruit staff members.
  5. 05Evaluate data pertaining to costs to plan budgets.
  6. 06Oversee training programs.

Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)

  • Repeating same tasks4.37
  • Degree of automation2.80
  • Time sitting4.42
  • Originality (ability)2.88
  • Conflict situations3.09
  • Hands-on objects/tools2.61
  • Outdoors / weather1.39
  • Disease exposure1.03
  • Decision freedom4.12

Top abilities

  • Written Comprehension4.12
  • Oral Expression4.12
  • Oral Comprehension4.12
  • Speech Clarity4.00
  • Deductive Reasoning4.00
  • Written Expression3.88
  • Problem Sensitivity3.88
  • Inductive Reasoning3.88

Essential skills

  • Reading Comprehension4.00
  • Active Listening4.00
  • Writing3.75
  • Speaking4.00
  • Mathematics3.50
  • Science1.25
  • Critical Thinking4.00
  • Active Learning3.50
  • Learning Strategies3.00
  • Monitoring3.75

CIP matches

30.1601Accounting and Computer Science30.7104Financial Analytics52.0215Risk Management52.0304Accounting and Finance52.0305Accounting and Business/Management52.0801Finance, General52.0806International Finance52.0808Public Finance52.0809Credit Management52.0810Financial Risk Management52.0899Finance and Financial Management Services, Other

Schools offering related programs

12 of 88 shown

Earnings are College Scorecard medians for that program, 1 and 2 years after completion. A dash means the Department suppressed the cell or the campus is not in the field file.

InstitutionProgramTuitionAdmitGrad 6-yrEarnings

Stanford University

Stanford, CA · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$62,4004%96%

1 yr $166,516

2 yr $163,337

Master's · CIP 52.02

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$68,2004%96%

1 yr $166,356

2 yr $170,426

Master's · CIP 52.02

City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College

Chicago, IL · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$4,600100%27%

1 yr $160,423

2 yr $189,565

Master's · CIP 52.02

University of California-San Diego

La Jolla, CA · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$15,20024%87%

1 yr $150,453

2 yr $143,744

Master's · CIP 52.02

New York University

New York, NY · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$60,40012%88%

1 yr $150,006

2 yr $145,543

Master's · CIP 52.02

Howard University

Washington, DC · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$33,20053%65%

1 yr $112,701

2 yr $114,046

Master's · CIP 52.02

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$60,1004%96%

1 yr $88,639

2 yr $96,183

Master's · CIP 52.02

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$17,70018%93%

1 yr $87,942

2 yr $83,177

Bachelor's · CIP 52.02

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$9,00017%91%

1 yr $76,041

2 yr $73,823

Bachelor's · CIP 52.02

University of California-Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$13,8009%92%

1 yr $73,549

2 yr $81,456

Bachelor's · CIP 52.02

Emory University

Atlanta, GA · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$60,80011%91%

1 yr $73,112

2 yr $77,283

Bachelor's · CIP 52.02

Georgetown University

Washington, DC · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$65,40012%95%

1 yr $67,660

2 yr $69,338

Bachelor's · CIP 52.02