Treasurer:

Duties involve supervision of Treasury department which is involved in financial planning, raising funds, cash management, the acquiring and disposing of assets. This is an upper management job which requires both analytical skill and the ability to manage people.

Financial Analyst:

Duties involve determining financing needs, analyzing capital budgeting projects, long-range financial planning, analyzing possible acquisitions and asset sales, visiting credit agencies to explain firm's position, working on budgets, analyzing competitors, implementing financial plans, monitoring the the market price of your firm's securities analyzing of leasing agreements and determining needs and methods of dealing with derivatives. Often you will be assigned to a specific area such as revenue, planning, capital budgeting or project finance. This challenging job requires good analytical skills, computer skills and a broad understanding of finance.

Credit Manager:

Duties include establishing policies for granting credit to suppliers, setting guidelines for collecting on credit and considering whether to securitize receivables. This job requires knowledge of the customer and ability to analyze accounting statements.

Cash Manager:

Duties involve establishing relationships with banks, managing short-term credit needs, ensuring that sufficient cash is on hand to meet daily needs, putting excess cash into a concentration account bearing interest and handling international transfers of funds. This job is detail-oriented and requires good ability to negotiate.

Benefits Officer:

    Mergers and Acquisitions:

Setting up deals and working with investment banks where one company buys another is an important source of growth in many consolidating industries particularly retail banking and telecom. M&A departments within corporations tend to come and go depending on the current state of the industry.  If you go to work in this area you would help out with a team which looks for potential partnerships, values transactions, creatively structures deals and negotiates favorable terms. Your duties could involve analyzing the synergies that could be realized by combining product lines, increasing market share, and reducing cost structures. Expect to start running lots of valuation models on spreadsheets and engaging in the lengthy, secretive courtship that partnering firms go through before SEC, DOJ, and shareholder approval.

Real Estate Officer:

This job involves finding real estate locations for a company, negotiation of lease agreements, acquisition of real estate and valuation of properties. This job requires a thorough understanding of finance and real estate.

Investor Relations Officer:

Duties involve dealing with the investing public by disseminating financial information, responding to queries from institutional investors, issuing press releases to explain corporate events and organizing teleconferences with investors. This challenging job involves contacts with top-level executives and requires understanding of finance and public relations. Many who hold this job have backgrounds in PR or advertising.

Controller:

Duties involve financial planning, accounting, financial reporting and cost analysis. Will get involved in property, revenue, benefits, derivatives, lease and joint interest accounting. May need to develop forecasting models to project revenues and costs. May be called on to implement or work with a complex costing system, efforts at financial reengineering, transfer pricing issues or interface with auditors. This job requires extensive accounting experience. Often holders of this position enter a company from a Big4 accounting firm.