Financial risk specialist
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Work environment
- Usually work regular business hours
- Usually work in offices
- Need to be accurate, methodical and identify and solve problems
Salary information
Typical tasks
- Analyse financial risks for businesses
- Create plans to lower financial risks
- Analyse financial risks in market trends
- Give advice on managing business risks
- Use computer models to predict risks
- Write reports on risk findings
- Review and update risk plans regularly
- Meet with clients to discuss risk plans
Outlook
Financial risk work is growing in importance as organisations manage economic uncertainty, cyber fraud, changing regulations and climate-related financial risks. New Zealand banks, insurers, businesses and public organisations are strengthening how they identify and report risks. Data analytics and automation are changing the work, while human judgement remains essential for making sense of complex risks.
What employers and industry want in graduates
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- Confidence working with numbers, data and financial information
- Ability to spot patterns, uncertainty and potential problems
- Clear communication of complex ideas to different audiences
- Sound judgement, integrity and professional curiosity
- Digital confidence, including data-analysis tools
AUT programmes
The above is a suggestion only and a starting point. You may need to meet other criteria or take additional steps to work in this career.
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Further study options
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