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Professionals · code 2413

Financial analysts

Financial analysts conduct quantitative analyses of information affecting investment programmes of public or private institutions. Tasks include - (a) analysing financial information to produce forecasts of business, industry and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions; (b) maintaining knowledge and staying abreast of developments in the fields of industrial technology, business, finance and economic theory; (c) interpreting data affecting investment programmes such as price, yield, stability, future trends in investment risks and economic influences; (d) monitoring economic, industrial and corporate developments through analysis of information obtained from financial publications and services, investment banking firms, government agencies, trade publications, company sources and personal interviews; (e) recommending investments and investment timing to companies, investment firm staff or the investing public; (f) determining the prices at which securities should be syndicated and offered to the public; (g) preparing plans of action for investment based on financial analyses; (h) evaluating and comparing the relative quality of various securities in a given industry; (i) presenting oral and written reports on general economic trends, individual corporations and entire industries. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Bond analyst - Investment analyst - Securities consultant

The ILO’s highest group: nearly every task is affected. It ranks 421 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • middle office analyst
  • financial analyst

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38.2
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 4

AI could take on 61.8 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 61.8 = 38.2

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

7.5
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

10.2
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 22.4 · hand skill 5.3 · cramped spaces 3 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 7.5 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 67.5, while the average is 61.8. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 67.5

    Presenting oral and written reports on general economic trends, individual corporations, and entire industries.

    Medium
  2. 64.5

    Analysing financial information to produce forecasts of business, industry, and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions

    Medium
  3. 63.5

    Monitoring economic, industrial, and corporate developments through analysis of information obtained from financial publications and services, investment banking firms, government agencies, trade publications, company sources and personal interviews

    Medium
  4. 63.5

    Recommending investments and investment timing to companies, investment firm staff or the investing public

    Medium
  5. 63.5

    Determining the prices at which securities should be syndicated and offered to the public

    Medium
  6. 63.5

    Evaluating and comparing the relative quality of various securities in a given industry

    Medium
  7. 62.3

    Preparing plans of action for investment based on financial analyses

    Medium
  8. 62

    Interpreting data affecting investment programmes, such as price, yield, stability, future trends in investment risks and economic influences

    Medium
  9. 46

    Maintaining knowledge and staying abreast of developments in the fields of industrial technology, business, finance, and economic theory

    Low

9 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
77
AI does it for you
69

Helping wins by 8 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2222

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.6. This one is below that.