financial analyst
Code 2413.1
The financial analyst (financial analyst) models scenarios, analyses profitability and supports investment, pricing or budget decisions. Use this Job Dictionary profile to define FP&A / analysis as distinct from a bookkeeping accountant.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Modelado estadístico y predictivo
- accounting
- economics
- statistics
- financial management
- macroeconomics
- microeconomics
- business processes
Skills and competences
- Elaborar un informe financiero
- Presentar los resultados del análisis de datos
- interpret financial statements
- offer financial services
- prepare financial projections
- perform business research
- perform business analysis
- consider economic criteria in decision making
Transversal competences
- advise on financial matters
- create a financial report
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What to assess for this role
Assess model rigour, executive clarity and healthy scepticism toward assumptions.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a financial analyst do?
- Builds forecasts, evaluates projects and explains margin, cash or return drivers to management.
- Is it the same as an accountant?
- The accountant records and reports the regulated past; the analyst forecasts and recommends forward.
- What to assess when hiring?
- Cases with real decision impact and quality of the story behind the spreadsheet.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences