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Financial Accounts Managers

Financial accounts managers manage client accounts or departments within financial institutions (such as banks and insurance companies) or manage a variety of financial accounts within other organisations.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£18,118
£36,907
£74,125

New workers start around £18,118. Normal pay is £36,907 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £74,125.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 179,138 vacancies for this type of job

4.90%

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?

  • Carries out and/or supervises general accounting and administrative work.

  • Establishes terms of credit and ensures timely payment by customer, renegotiates payment terms and initiates legal action to recover debts if necessary.

  • Checks customers’ credit rating with banks and credit reference agencies, and decides whether to offer credit.

  • Manages teams handling insurance claims.

  • Takes responsibility for the efficient and effective operation of several business accounts.

  • Develops and manages business accounts to increase sales of financial products.

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.

  • Finance

  • Accounting

  • Financial Statements

  • Auditing

  • Account Management

  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Invoicing

  • Marketing

  • Reconciliation

  • Financial Management

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

  • Communication

  • Sales

  • Forecasting

  • Budgeting

  • Operations

  • Leadership

  • Customer Service

  • Detail Oriented

  • Planning

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.

Routes to this career

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Financial Economics

Coventry University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Coventry · 09/2024

Tariff points: 112/112

Economics (with Foundation Year)

Bournemouth University

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time including foundation year · Poole · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 48/72

Accountancy and Finance

Solent University (Southampton)

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Southampton · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/128

Financial Economics

Kingston University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · London · 09/2024

Tariff points: 120/136

Financial Mathematics

Aberystwyth University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Aberystwyth · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 104/120

Financial Economics

University of Dundee

MA (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time · Dundee · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Financial Economics

Birkbeck, University of London

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Part-time · London · 10/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Financial Mathematics

Brunel University London

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Uxbridge · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Financial Economics

University of Plymouth

BSc (Hons) · 1 Year · Full-time · Plymouth · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Economics, Finance and Banking

University of Portsmouth

BSc Econ H · 3 Years · Full-time · Portsmouth · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/120

Accounting and Finance

Liverpool John Moores University

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Liverpool · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/128

Accounting and Finance

Robert Gordon University

BA (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time · Aberdeen · 09/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Accountancy

Edge Hill University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Ormskirk · 09/2024

Tariff points: 112/120

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