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Find the best finance jobs in the UK

To help you focus your employment thoughts, let’s take a look at some of the top finance jobs and accounting roles in the current UK job market.
Financial and accounting positions span industries and sectors. With a bit of luck and planning, you could soon find yourself taking the first steps into an exciting new stage of your career.

1. Financial Analyst

Working in institutions such as banks, insurance agencies and stockbrokers, financial analysts look at the investment markets, stocks, bonds, hedge funds, and securities. They make policy and strategy recommendations to their employers, based on their findings.

Despite the turmoil caused by Brexit, the UK’s need for Financial Analysts has held steady. In fact, the industry has experienced a 3% increase in international candidates coming to Britain to start their career.
Financial Analysts don’t necessarily work exclusively for banks or investment bodies. Retailers and public service providers also require their skills. To succeed in the field, you’ll need to be able to think creatively, have a strong grasp of financial trends and current events, and be a confident communicator.
The field is a popular springboard to other positions, but the average starting salary for a Financial Analyst is around £30,000, rising to over £50,000 with experience.

2. Accountant

Accountancy is a highly-skilled and highly-disciplined field, which is why good Accountants remain in demand across the UK. In fact, research shows that country will need around 80,000 additional Accountants by 2050.
Essentially, Accountants are directly responsible for the financial affairs of their employers. Their duties involve balancing the books, preparing financial statements, and ensuring their clients adhere to certain rules and legislation.
It goes without saying that all employees in the finance sector need mathematical skill. But, Accountants also must have a keen eye for detail. You’ll also need to go through a significant amount of training before you qualify. Entry-level candidates can expect salaries of around £35,000 to £45,000. Those numbers rise to £70,000 within four years of employment and over £100,000 in senior roles.
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3. Investment Banker

Investment banking remains one of the highest paid jobs in the financial sector and is a highly competitive field.
In fact, Investment Bankers advise their employers on financial matters. They also buy and sell assets on the financial markets to raise money. Investment Bankers must remain vigilant for attractive trades, with the potential to yield a significant return over the short and long term.
Investment banking is a crowded field, and job hunters should aim to distinguish themselves with their academic performance and communication skills.
Beyond the standard maths and numeracy skills, Investment Bankers must be ready to work long hours and have a firm grasp of industry ethics. After all, the majority of the job is spent on the phone negotiating with clients and colleagues.

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The future of work: Rethinking skills to tackle the UK’s looming talent shortage Megatrends will likely unleash profound structural shifts in the UK workforce. New research looks more deeply into how that could affect demand for a variety of occupations, and what companies can do to prepare for this change.

Mind the gap: Why the talent already in short supply will be in even greater demand by 2030

The impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the future shape of work will be profound. Modelling by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) on the effects of technology adoption on the UK workforce shows that up to 10 million people, or around 30 percent of all UK workers, may need to transition between occupations or skill levels by 2030.

Moreover, technology affects higher- and lower-skilled workers very differently. It tends to augment highly skilled workers, for example, by making doctors more efficient and effective at treating patients. This tends to increase demand for the services that such professionals provide, which in turn increases their employment. In contrast, when the tasks performed by workers require lower skills, those workers can be substituted with machines more easily. In the short term, this tends to lead to talent shortages among high-skilled occupations—along with a narrowing of job opportunities for lower-skilled workers. To test the application of this trend in the UK job market, MGI and McKinsey’s UK and Ireland office analyzed the projected growth in employment of 369 different occupations from 2017 to 2030. We placed those occupations into five quintiles, with top-quintile occupations exhibiting the strongest, and bottom-quintile occupations the weakest, projected employment growth.

This occupation-by-occupation modeling suggests that demand for occupations in the top quintile will increase by an average of about 19 percent from 2017 to 2030, which equates to 1.4 percent per annum. Those occupations include management roles in a host of sectors, as well professional roles in information and communication technology (ICT), engineering, health, and teaching. Over the same period, demand for bottom-quintile occupations is expected to shrink by about 17 percent. Those occupations include administrative and secretarial roles.1

The challenge for UK companies is that the top-quintile occupations—those in which employment demand will grow fastest—are also those already facing a shortage of workers. In other words, acute talent shortages are on the horizon in the occupations that are most critical for business and economic growth. People in these management and professional positions also play a fundamental enabling role—in their firms and in the broader economy—as they often help other workers strengthen their skills and improve their performance.
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The future of work: Rethinking skills to tackle the UK’s looming talent shortage Megatrends will likely unleash profound structural shifts in the UK workforce. New research looks more deeply into how that could affect demand for a variety of occupations, and what companies can do to prepare for this change.

Hard-to-fill and skills shortage vacancies in the United Kingdom

The report highlighted the professional level occupations, which were reported by employers to have experienced the most vacancies during the survey. 'Professional level' means managerial, professional and associate professional roles. Nursing came top of the list, followed by HR and industrial relations professionals, business sales executives, welfare and housing associate professionals and IT user support technicians.

The report also demonstrates that despite thousands of graduates entering the job market every year employers still find certain positions difficult to fill. An employer reported a vacancy as hard to fill if they found it difficult to recruit for, for any reason. The largest number of hard-to-fill vacancies were:

nurses
programmers and software development professionals
human resources and industrial relations officers
medical practitioners
welfare and housing associate professionals.
Design engineers, accountants, marketing associate professionals and vets also made the list.

Vacancies that recruiters find hard to fill due to a lack of relevant skills, qualifications and experiences are often referred to as 'skills shortage vacancies'. Similar to the hard to fill list graduate jobs that experience the most skills shortage vacancies include nurses, programmers and software development professionals and business sales executives. However, unlike the hard to fill list teaching and other educational professionals, finance and investment analysts and advisers and graphic designers also feature.

According to the report the following industries experienced a particularly large number of hard-to-fill vacancies at professional level:

architectural and engineering activities
computer programming and consultancy
education
employment and HR
financial services
human health activities
legal and accounting services
office administrative, support and business activities
public administration and defence
residential care activities
retail trade
social work.

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