Senior Managers – Financial Services and Communications
Job description
These individuals define the company’s objectives and develop its policies and programs. They also plan and evaluate the organization’s activities. They generally report to a board of directors.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Define the company’s mission and strategic orientations.
- Set up the organization’s main services.
- Ensure the allocation of material, human, and financial resources.
- Establish administrative and financial controls.
- Prepare and approve promotional campaigns.
- Approve the human resources management plan.
- Select, and delegate authority to, middle managers, directors, and senior staff.
- Represent the organization.
Advancement and mobility
- Mobility exists among senior management professions.
- Possibility of specialization by acquiring experience or specific university training.
- These individuals specialize in such areas as
- Financial services
- Marketing
- Human resources
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2022-2026
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Job prospects for 2022-2026
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2021
All of Québec
8,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 24% Female
- 76% Male
Not available.
- 24% Female
- 76% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
All of Québec
$103,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 541518% of jobs
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NAICS 521, 522, 523, 52614% of jobs
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NAICS 5416, 541714% of jobs
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NAICS 5312% of jobs
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NAICS 5418, 541911% of jobs
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Others31% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 541518% of jobs
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NAICS 521, 522, 523, 52614% of jobs
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NAICS 5416, 541714% of jobs
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NAICS 5312% of jobs
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NAICS 5418, 541911% of jobs
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Others31% 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 (B.B.A.), a Master’s degree in Business Administration (M.B.A), or a university diploma in Management is required for admission to the Chartered Administrator (Adm.A.) designation.
Sometimes required
- A university degree or diploma in Business Administration, Commerce, Computer Science, or other field related to the service is normally required.
- A graduate degree or diploma is an asset.
- A professional certification in Accounting is usually required.
- A mutual fund licence may be required for senior managers in financial services.
- Several years of experience as an intermediate director in the sectors of financial and business services, among others, are usually required.
- The designation as a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) is usually required. Prerequisites: completion of a Professional Training Program (PTP) and successful completion of the Common Final Examination (CFE) of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Judgment and decision-making
- Oral expression
- Critical thought
- Solving complex problems
- Coordination
- Human resource management
- Social perception
- System analysis
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Result evaluation
- Systems evaluation
- Financial resource management
- Negotiation
- Persuasion
- Information processing
- Active learning
- Written expression
- Time management
- Material resource management
- Mathematics
- Operation analysis
- Teaching
- Service oriented
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Inductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Classification
- Mathematical reasoning
- Processing flexibility
- Basic numeracy
- Perception speed
- Information processing speed
- Visualization
- Selective attention
- Memorization
- Time sharing
- Distance vision
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to develop and maintain business relations
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Leadership
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of economics and accounting
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Honesty
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work with numbers
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
Note about CNP
Occupational information is provided based on the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016. The 5-digit code of the NOC 2021 is shown in parentheses for information purposes only for occupations that correspond to those of NOC 2016.
Official name of the NOC 0013 (00012)
Senior managers - financial, communications and other business services
Job titles
- Chief executive officer (ceo) - financial, communications and other business services
- General manager - financial, communications and other business services
- Deputy chief executive officer - life insurance company
- Chief executive officer (ceo) - telephone company
- Chief operating officer - financial, communications and other business services
- Deputy chief executive officer - financial, communications and other business services
- Chief privacy officer - financial, communications and other business services
- Chief operating officer - engineering firm
- Chief financial officer (cfo) - advertising agency
- Chief financial officer (cfo) - financial, communications and other business services
- Corporate controller - financial, communications and other business services
- Corporate controller - mortgage brokerage firm
- Controller - financial, communications and other business services
- Assistant executive director - financial, communications and other business services
- Executive director - financial, communications and other business services
- Real estate management company executive director
- Credit union executive director
- Protective services executive director
- Employment agency general manager
- Credit union general manager
- Insurance company general manager
- General manager - real estate management company
- Engineering research general manager
- Trust company general manager
- Telecommunications general manager
- Chairwoman - financial, communications and other business services
- Advertising agency president
- Bank president
- Computing services company president
- Engineering firm president
- President and chief executive officer - financial, communications and other business services
- Executive vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Executive vice-president - real estate agency
- Senior vice-president and chief economist
- Regional vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Trust company regional vice-president
- Treasury vice-president - banking institution
- Vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Engineering vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Bank credit vice-president
- Finance vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Finance vice-president - holding company
- Finance and administration vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Planning vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Operations vice-president - satellite communication services
- Operations vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Domestic banking operations vice-president
- International banking operations vice-president
- Human resources vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Human resources vice-president - bank
- Human resources and organizational development vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Corporate banking vice-president
- Personal banking vice-president
- Support services vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Information systems vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Marketing vice-president - clerical staff services
- Marketing vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Personnel vice-president - financial, communications and other business services
- Personnel vice-president - bank
Skill type
Management
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Last update: March 27, 2023
