Top three most promising careers in finance for 2017

2017/10/1 16:09:17

Ukraine’s universities are seeing their finance student populations exploding – Kyiv School of Economics in particular comes to mind. Of course, this burgeoning interest in finance as a undergrad and post-grad field of study is a “no brainer” – the finance job openings are plentiful and the starting salaries are attention-getters. The Born2Invest website reports the following:

 


“Thanks to the advancement of technology, new finance jobs are opening up in the sector. LinkedIn took a look at millions of user profiles and over 140,000 job openings in finance to help identify which jobs were the most promising and was based on criteria such as salary, career advancement, number of U.S. job openings, year-over-year growth, and regional availability.

 

“The top spot went to financial analysts. The job entails preparing budgets and reporting financial performance and decides on whether new projects should be funded. The median base salary is at $62,000. In February, the job had 1,700 job postings.

 

“The second place went to the position of underwriting managers. This role evaluates mortgage and insurance applicant’s’ financial backgrounds. The median pay is at $102,000 and requires five to 10 years of experience.

 

“The third most promising job of the year went to quantitative analysts. This role assesses risks and analyses hedge fund data. It also requires a Ph.D. in a quantitative field. However, the role only had 200 job openings but has a median salary of $105,000.”

 

Now, before someone points out the obvious, i.e. that these are U.S. job openings, we would point out that there are already several hundred Ukraine-native finance experts who have been recruited by U.S. and European banks and other financial institutions. The immigration policies are strict but those companies that need top finance graduates have proven quite adept at identifying top Ukrainian finance talent and finding their way through the morass of immigration regulations.

 

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https://born2invest.com/articles/finan ... et-pros-demand-locations/

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