Occupation Atlasfinancial controller
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5e5b1b61-1351-4d3b-a293-deb3661715dd
financial controller
Financial controllers handle all tasks related to the budgeting and accounting aspects of a company or organisation. They implement and ensure compliance with internal financial and accounting procedures, and prepare documentation for external audits. They collect information related to financial statements such as assets, liabilities, equity, and cash flow in order to assess the company's financial position to prepare annual budgets and forecasts.
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Job Zone
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- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
CESConventional · Enterprising · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional6.44
- E Enterprising6.15
- S Social2.68
- I Investigative2.20
- A Artistic1.17
- R Realistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Treasurers and Controllers (11-3031.01): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (17)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accounting department processes
- analyse financial performance of a company
- create a financial plan
- develop financial statistics reports
- enforce financial policies
- ensure compliance with accounting conventions
- evaluate budgets
- exert expenditure control
- explain accounting records
- financial department processes
- financial statements
- follow the statutory obligations
- interpret financial statements
- prepare financial statements
- synthesise financial information
- tax legislation
- track key performance indicators
Optional (20)
- advise on financial matters
- advise on tax planning
- analyse financial risk
- check accounting records
- disseminate information on tax legislation
- draft accounting procedures
- financial forecasting
- insolvency law
- inspect government expenditures
- liaise with auditors
- liaise with financiers
- liaise with shareholders
- manage budgets
- manage profitability
- manage the general ledger
- prepare financial auditing reports
- prepare tax returns forms
- statistics
- supervise accounting operations
- support development of annual budget
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 17 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
accounting manager
12 shared · 21 more of its ownexplain accounting records, ensure compliance with accounting conventions, evaluate budgets, accounting department processes
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10 shared · 16 more of its ownexplain accounting records, ensure compliance with accounting conventions, accounting department processes, financial department processes
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budget manager
10 shared · 18 more of its ownexert expenditure control, explain accounting records, evaluate budgets, accounting department processes
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financial manager
9 shared · 29 more of its ownevaluate budgets, accounting department processes, financial department processes, prepare financial statements
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corporate treasurer
6 shared · 10 more of its ownevaluate budgets, financial department processes, interpret financial statements, analyse financial performance of a company
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accounting analyst
6 shared · 12 more of its ownexplain accounting records, accounting department processes, financial department processes, interpret financial statements
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budget analyst
5 shared · 6 more of its ownexert expenditure control, evaluate budgets, financial department processes, develop financial statistics reports
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bookkeeper
5 shared · 13 more of its ownaccounting department processes, follow the statutory obligations, prepare financial statements, financial statements
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