Financial Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate accounting, investing, banking, insurance, securities, and other financial activities of a branch, office, or department of an establishment.
841,710 people do this job in the US. $166,570 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 86%
- 11%
- 4%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 14%. Today's estimate: 19%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 17 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluate financial reporting systems, accounting or collection procedures, or investment activities and make recommendations for changes to procedures, operating systems, budgets, or other financial control functions.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 19% | 1.3 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 4%Half by Dec 2027 | |
| Develop or analyze information to assess the current or future financial status of firms.Done daily by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 16% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days | 8%Half by Sep 2027 | |
| Prepare financial or regulatory reports required by laws, regulations, or boards of directors.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 13% | 1 work day3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 5%Half by Oct 2027 | |
| Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of workers in branches, offices, or departments of establishments, such as branch banks, brokerage firms, risk and insurance departments, or credit departments.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Evaluate data pertaining to costs to plan budgets.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 8% | 5 h1.7 h to 2.1 work days | 15%Half by Jun 2027 | |
| Establish procedures for custody or control of assets, records, loan collateral, or securities to ensure safekeeping.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 7% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days | 8%Half by Sep 2027 | |
| Establish and maintain relationships with individual or business customers or provide assistance with problems these customers may encounter.Done daily by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 5% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | 95%Half by now | |
| Oversee the flow of cash or financial instruments.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 1.3 h25 min to 3.3 h | 77%Half by now | |
| Network within communities to find and attract new business.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 2.5 h50 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Examine, evaluate, or process loan applications.Done daily by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 4% | 1.7 h38 min to 6.7 h | 56%Half by now | |
| Approve, reject, or coordinate the approval or rejection of lines of credit or commercial, real estate, or personal loans.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 1.7 h25 min to 4.2 h | 57%Half by now | |
| Prepare operational or risk reports for management analysis.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 2% | 4.2 h1.7 h to 1.3 work days | 27%Half by Jan 2027 |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
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Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).