{"id":1341,"date":"2016-12-05T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T09:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:46:31","slug":"job-opportunities-financial-management-faqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/job-opportunities-financial-management-faqs\/","title":{"rendered":"What jobs can you get when you study Financial Management?| FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering which the job opportunities are available to you when you study financial management? \u00a0According to Gareth Cotten, Head Tutor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/products\/uct-basics-of-financial-management-online-short-course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCT Basics of Financial Management online short course<\/a>, there\u2019s a wealth of opportunity across a broad range of positions whether you&#8217;re hoping to land a role as a Financial manager or a Financial planner.<\/p>\n<p>[bctt tweet=&#8221;Financial management is a key skill if you want to move into the executive layer of any business.&#8221; username=&#8221;getsmarter&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>In this short video, Gareth gives you examples of the broad range of job roles available in the financial management industry and explains how the skills you&#8217;ll learn when you study financial management will be important all the way up to an executive level.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1LnqUBtE2yg\" width=\"1100\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;re interested in a career in financial management, either as a Financial Planner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/financial-manager-faqs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Financial Manager<\/a> or any related role, you&#8217;re in luck. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/get-financial-management-jobs-faqs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">job opportunities in financial management<\/a> are extensive, giving you the chance to choose what is best suited to your abilities and your preferences. The job market for financial management is lucrative but so are the variety of job opportunities available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">You can start in the industry doing clerical work or as a Junior Financial Manager<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">You then have the opportunity to move up into more senior financial management positions &#8211; with the opportunity to even run an entire financial department eventually<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;re less interested in raw finance but want the opportunity to vie for executive positions, a knowledge of financial management will significantly help strengthen your case and make you more marketable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Want to find out how you can get the skills to become a Financial Manager?<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Find how the\u00a0UCT Basics of Financial Management online short course\u00a0will help you secure these job opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"button large postcta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/products\/uct-basics-of-financial-management-online-short-course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GET AHEAD<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>Transcription<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The job opportunities in financial management are very good. There is a very broad range that you can hit, starting from processing and clerical work, all the way through to being a slightly more junior manager level. Then also when you can run an entire finance department as well. Financial management is also an important skill if you want to move into the executive layer of any business.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a wealth of opportunity across a broad range of positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":40757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,128],"article-format":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-advice","tag-career-advice","tag-finance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Jobs Can you Get When you Study Financial Management? | FAQs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Want to study financial management? 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