Finance Jobs Undergraduate

Financial Manager

• Financial managers see to a company's financial responsibilities. If you are in charge of a group of people who prepare tax documents, your job is to keep your staff on point for filing dates and existing investments. A financial manager is also referred to as a credit manager, treasurer, international bank manager and controller. Potential employers consider related work experience a desirable qualification for this position.
  

Advisors

• Personal advisors give advice to clients on how to achieve long- and short-term finance goals. Pursue this field if you are comfortable with the idea of self-employment. Part of this job requires you to gain your own customers through networking. Financial analysts give advice to a business about investment opportunities. Analysts watch the stock market to see how bonds, stocks and commodities are serving their clients and advise accordingly on changes or if the company should stay on the same track with their investments. Financial analysts work for insurance companies, banks and pension funds, among others. Institutional investors who make large amounts of money employ buy-side analysts who, in turn, drum up ways to earn the company more money through investments. Sell-side employees work for banks to sell their investments.
  

Accountants

• Accountants work for a company, small firm or as a self-employed entity. In this line of work you prepare financial documents, offer budgeting information tips and map out financial investments. Part of your job may entail keeping track of company financial statements and filing those documents during tax season. Terms parried around in the accounting field include "internal audit," "public accounting" and "management accounting," according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Pay

• Accountants average a salary of $61,690 per year, according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Financial managers earn between $72,030 and $135,070 yearly. You can work for the local government and bring home $78,650 while a broker manager can rake in $134,940. Personal financial advisers take home $69,050 each year. Analysts take home $73,150 annually.
  
  

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Treasurer Administrator Job Description

To compete for a position as a finance treasurer administrator, applicants are required to have earned a bachelor's degree in a finance or an accounting related field of study, such as economics or business administration. The degree programs best suited for preparing you for this career will have a concentration on basic accounting skills, analyzing financial information, corporate finance, developing budgets, forecasting, financial planning and managing profitability.

Management of the organization's entire budget is your main function in this position. Your job is to ensure that the company meets its financial goals. In the book, "The Strategic Treasurer," Craig Jeffery suggests every organization needs a treasure to keep track of connecting their business activities with their true objectives. As the administrator, you may be responsible for managing a team of financial analysts and accountants who would work within the parameters of the accounting and record keeping systems that you have designed. For example, as a city employee, you would manage the entire finance department. You job is also to plan strategies to meet long-term and short-term financial investments goals, implement methods for organizing cash control systems and manage cash flow through the organization's bank accounts.

Treasury administrators' positions have been advertised in the "2010 National JobBank" Publication to earn as much as $160,000. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the median wage throughout the United States for financial managers is $99,330 with wages ranging from $72,000 to$135,000. The Bureau also reports that also there may be 8 percent growth in the market for financial managers through 2018, the market will get more competitive with more talent with degrees than available jobs.

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