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Job description
These individuals work in various sectors of the financial industry. Some ensure compliance with the standards and laws in force, while others advise clients, issue shares, or manage accounts. They are self-employed or work for:
- Banks
- Trust companies
- Investment companies
- Insurance companies
- The public service
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
Financial Planners
- Analyze their clients’ financial data, set objectives, and establish a financial strategy.
- Advise clients on the implementation of a financial plan to achieve their goals.
- Negotiate, as required, the purchase and sale of financial products.
- Ensure the quality of the portfolio and its profitability.
- Solicit new clients.
Financial Inspectors and Auditors
- Review financial institution documents to ensure compliance with laws and regulations.
Financial Investigators
- Review breaches to the Code of Conduct and securities laws by individuals or companies.
Underwriters
- Underwrite share or bond issuance.
- Determine the categories and maturities of new securities issued.
- Prepare prospectuses.
Trust Agents
- Administer estates, trusts, corporations, and charities.
- Manage trust accounts.
- Receive and record income on investments.
Mortgage Brokers
- Ask clients about their income, assets, liabilities, properties to be mortgaged, etc.
- Negotiate mortgages with lenders or lending institutions.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to management positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $24.00
- Median
- $38.40
- Maximum
- $64.84
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
10,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 62.9% Female
- 37.1% Male
Not available.
- 62.9% Female
- 37.1% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$64,500
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 521, 522, 523, 52667% of jobs
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NAICS 52416% of jobs
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NAICS 916% of jobs
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NAICS 5411, 54122% of jobs
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NAICS 811% of jobs
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Others8% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 521, 522, 523, 52667% of jobs
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NAICS 52416% of jobs
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NAICS 916% of jobs
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NAICS 5411, 54122% of jobs
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NAICS 811% of jobs
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Others8% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
University
Business administration
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 84.1%
12.1% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 92%
3.1% of graduates pursue further studies
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
- HEC Montréal
- Bishop's University
- Concordia University
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
- Université du Québec en Outaouais
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Université Laval
- McGill University
- TÉLUQ
Also required
Financial Planners
- Certificate from the Autorité des marchés financiers [Financial Markets Authority] to use the title of Financial Planner (F.Pl.).
Sometimes required
- The title of Personal Financial Planner (P.F.P.) may be required (issued by the Financial Planning Standards Council of Canada).
- The Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation may be required for Financial Inspectors and Auditors.
- A real estate agent licence is required for mortgage brokers.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Information processing
- Data collection
- Mathematics
- Critical thought
- Reading comprehension
- Solving complex problems
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- Active learning
- Written expression
- System analysis
- Systems evaluation
- Persuasion
- Coordination
- Teaching
- Result evaluation
- Time management
- Social perception
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Mathematical reasoning
- Basic numeracy
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Verbal skills
- Information organization
- Speech recognition
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Written expression
- Idea generation
- Near vision
- Classification
- Originality
- Selective attention
Knowledge and attributes
- Focussed on results
- Autonomy
- Sense of responsibility
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of economics and accounting
- Sense of initiative
- Vitality
- Desire to upgrade one’s competencies
- Enjoy challenges
- Knowledge of laws and policies
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work with numbers
- Work in sales or client service
- Work in an office
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Official name of the NOC 11109
Other financial officers
Job titles
- Mortgage Brokers
- Financial institutions inspector
- Financial investigator
- Estate and trust administrator
- Finance and credit administrator
- Estate administrator
- Interbanking arrangements officer
- Foreign interbanking arrangements officer
- Trust officer
- Personal trust officer
- Financial compliance officer
- Credit adjudicator
- Lending solutions manager
- Estate executor
- Credit agency inspector
- Bank inspector
- Financial underwriter
- Securities underwriter
- Bonds underwriter
- Mortgage underwriter
- Financial institutions examiner
- Credit unions examiner
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
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- Other business services managers
- Securities agents, investment dealers and brokers
Last update: January 29, 2026
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