Best Jobs For Former Finance Analysts [2022]

It’s tough to be a finance analyst nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a finance analyst isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become finance analysts in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many finance analysts no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former finance analysts to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former FINANCE ANALYSTS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former FINANCE ANALYSTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Senior Finance Analyst	7.98%
2	Finance Manager	2.61%
3	Business Analyst	2.02%
4	Senior Accountant	1.85%
5	Accountant	1.83%
6	Controller	1.72%
7	Finance Director	1.51%
8	Accounting Manager	1.22%
9	Consultant	1.21%
10	Vice President	1.11%
11	Chief Finance Officer	1.09%
12	Staff Accountant	0.87%
13	Project Manager	0.79%
14	Analyst	0.76%
15	Senior Manager	0.67%
16	Senior Analyst	0.66%
17	Associate	0.63%
18	Manager	0.63%
19	Assistant Vice President	0.6%
20	Finance Consultant	0.6%
21	Manager Finance Planning And Analysis	0.59%
22	Data Analyst	0.58%
23	Senior Business Analyst	0.52%
24	Senior Consultant	0.5%
25	Operations Manager	0.48%
26	Senior Finance Manager	0.48%
27	Business Manager	0.45%
28	Assistant Controller	0.43%
29	Cost Accountant	0.41%
30	Program Manager	0.4%
31	Office Manager	0.34%
32	Budget Analyst	0.33%
33	Administrative Assistant	0.32%
34	Team Leader	0.29%
35	Finance Controller	0.29%
36	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.29%
37	Investment Analyst	0.27%
38	Human Resources Coordinator	0.27%
39	Finance Specialist	0.27%
40	Pricing Analyst	0.26%
41	Operations Analyst	0.26%
42	Business Developer	0.26%
43	Director	0.26%
44	Customer Service Representative	0.24%
45	Product Manager	0.24%
46	Project Analyst	0.24%
47	Business Consultant	0.23%
48	Owner	0.23%
49	Accounting Analyst	0.23%
50	Lead Finance Analyst	0.22%
51	Senior Associate	0.22%
52	Finance Advisor	0.22%
53	Account Manager	0.22%
54	Plant Controller	0.22%
55	Cost Analyst	0.22%
56	Finance Planning Manager	0.21%
57	Principal	0.21%
58	Managing Director	0.21%
59	Accounting Supervisor	0.21%
60	Supervisor	0.2%
61	Internship	0.2%
62	Reporting Analyst	0.2%
63	Internal Auditor	0.2%
64	Associate Director	0.2%
65	Accounting Consultant	0.2%
66	Research Analyst	0.19%
67	Finance Associate	0.19%
68	Finance And Reporting Analyst	0.19%
69	Corporate Controller	0.19%
70	Sales Associate	0.19%
71	Accounts Receivable Specialist	0.19%
72	Specialist	0.19%
73	Marketing Manager	0.18%
74	General Manager	0.18%
75	Program Analyst	0.18%
76	Accounting Clerk	0.18%
77	Credit Analyst	0.18%
78	Senior Project Manager	0.18%
79	Vice President And Manager	0.18%
80	Service Manager	0.17%
81	Assistant Manager	0.17%
82	Billing Specialist	0.17%
83	Management Analyst	0.17%
84	President	0.17%
85	Finance Analyst/accountant	0.17%
86	Senior Staff Accountant	0.17%
87	Cost Accounting Manager	0.16%
88	Senior Vice President	0.16%
89	Research Assistant	0.16%
90	Projects Controller	0.15%
91	Management Consultant	0.15%
92	Auditor	0.15%
93	Senior Finance Consultant	0.15%
94	Administrator	0.15%
95	Purchasing Manager	0.15%
96	Business Development Manager	0.15%
97	Senior Accounting Analyst	0.15%
98	Asset Manager	0.15%
99	Contract Finance Analyst	0.15%
100	Finance Planning Analyst	0.15%

Most Common Jobs For Former FINANCE ANALYSTS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a finance analyst would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former finance analysts to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former FINANCE ANALYSTS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed finance analyst under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a finance analyst, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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