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Finance Officers

Finance officers oversee book-keeping, general accounting and other financial and related clerical functions mainly within local government and a variety of public sector organisations.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 13,676
£ 23,313
£ 39,754

New workers start around £13,676. Normal pay is £23,313 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £39,754.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 39,037 vacancies for this type of job

1.89%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Coordinates the activities and resources of finance departments.

  • Plans work schedules and assigns tasks to financial clerks.

  • Prepares or arranges the preparation of financial reports for managers.

  • Oversees the recording and checking of daily financial transactions, the preparation of provisional balances and reconciliation of accounts.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Accounting

  • Financial Statements

  • Auditing

  • Billing

  • Cross-Selling

  • Business Development

  • Statutory Accounts

  • Xero (Accounting Software)

  • Practice Management

  • International Financial Reporting Standards

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Management

  • Time Management

  • Training And Development

  • Written Communication

  • Professionalism

  • Advising

  • Innovation

  • Quick Learning

  • Communications

  • Operations

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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