Financial Managers
Job description
These individuals manage the financial services and accounting operations. They are employed by companies and organizations in the private and public sectors.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Develop and implement financial policies, procedures, and systems.
- Prepare or coordinate the preparation of various reports.
- Coordinate financial planning (budget, analysis, forecasts, etc.).
- Supervise the development and implementation of financial simulation models.
- Assess accounting practices.
- Propose modifications to controllers, senior managers, and heads of other departments.
- Hire, organize, train, and manage personnel.
- Ensure communication between the company and shareholders, investors, and financial analysts.
- Define standards of profitability for investment projects, evaluate them, and deal with mergers or acquisitions.
- Inform top management on the company's financial performance.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to senior management positions such as Vice-President of Finance.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $36.06
- Median
- $58.09
- Maximum
- $87.74
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
25,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 58% Female
- 42% Male
Not available.
- 58% Female
- 42% 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
$96,000
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, 52612% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 4512% of jobs
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NAICS 918% of jobs
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NAICS 237% of jobs
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NAICS 5411, 54127% of jobs
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Others54% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 521, 522, 523, 52612% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 4512% of jobs
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NAICS 918% of jobs
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NAICS 237% of jobs
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NAICS 5411, 54127% of jobs
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Others54% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
Also required
- A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Commerce, or related field is required.
- Several years of experience in the following areas are required:
- Accounting
- Auditing
- Budgeting
- Planning
- Financial analysis
Sometimes required
- A master’s degree in Business Administration (Finance) or Management may be required.
- Designation as a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Result evaluation
- Oral expression
- Critical thought
- Written expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- Data collection
- Active learning
- Coordination
- Human resource management
- Social perception
- Solving complex problems
- Time management
- Service oriented
- Persuasion
- Learning strategies
- Mathematics
- Information processing
- System analysis
- Teaching
- Negotiation
- Systems evaluation
- Financial resource management
Abilities
- Verbal skills
- Speech clarity
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Deductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Awareness of issues
- Written expression
- Inductive reasoning
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Mathematical reasoning
- Idea generation
- Classification
- Basic numeracy
- Memorization
- Originality
- Time sharing
Knowledge and attributes
- Leadership
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of economics and accounting
- Capacity to work in a team
- Knowledge of mathematics
- Versatility
- Rigour
- Sense of initiative
- Attention to detail
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Work with numbers
- 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 10010
Financial managers
Job titles
- Financial administrator
- Financial controller
- Financial planning and analysis manager
- Financial director
- Treasurer
- Pension plans administrator
- Assigned public accountants chief
- Independent public accountants chief
- Revenue accounting and controls section chief
- Finance chief
- Accounting and financial control chief
- Regional controller - financial services
- Comptroller
- Corporate controller
- Financial resources service coordinator
- Assistant accounting manager
- Director-treasurer - financial services
- Budget and sectoral profitability director
- Accounting office manager
- Financial centre manager
- Financial aid director – post-secondary education
- Corporate budgeting and analysis manager
- Accounting director
- Accounting manager - financial services department
- Financial planning and reporting director
- Financial planning and advisory service manager
- Investments research director
- Financial audit manager
- Audit and compliance director
- Internal audit manager
- Group accounting manager
- Financial evaluations director
- Finance and control manager
- Collections department manager
- Internal audit services manager
- Accounting and financial control director
- Financial control manager
- Corporate financing manager
- Financing and administration director
- Accounting department manager
- Corporate risk department manager
- Auditing department manager
- Pension services manager
- Assistant treasurer - finances
- Treasurer and controller - finances
- Assistant vice-president – financial, communications and other business services
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
Last update: January 29, 2026
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