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Career Oppotunities

The profession of a financier is distinguished by a variety of practical applications of the acquired knowledge, skills and abilities. At the same time, modern finance has a sufficient fundamental scientific system of principles and methods, which explains to a large extent the rapid development of forms of organization and methods of management of corporate financial systems. The format of the master's degree offered at the HSE Nizhny Novgorod also provides an opportunity to build an academic career, including through participation in PhD programs at foreign universities. Studying finance can be extremely useful for personal purposes, such as organizing and planning personal investment and financial decisions.

The combination of the above characteristics allows you to be confident in the availability of promising employment opportunities even in difficult market conditions.

The main features of the future profession are as follows:
  • The financier knows "how financial markets and institutions are organized, what is the financial mechanism of companies in the real and financial sectors of the economy, what functions and management methods should be implemented in order to improve the efficiency of the financial mechanism of the corporation;
  • The financier understands why, why and how the operations of financial market participants are carried out, as well as the composition and functions of the agents themselves, which form the content of the relevant type of professional activity of the financier;
  • A financier can professionally answer the question: How much is the company worth, what is the value of the relevant business and what factors determine the maintenance and growth of the managed value. In the context of the above, we note that valuation activities are also among the most actively developing business areas that require the availability of professional competencies of a financier;
  • The profession of a financier can also be represented as a multi–level hierarchical system of positions and ranks, in the initial links of which there are, for example, line managers of specialized departments of medium and large companies and banks, and at the upper levels - financial directors, bank managers, financial market analysts, chief accountants, consultants, etc.;
  • Effective financial management in modern world This involves the professional organization and implementation of the functions of external and internal financial control (audit), carried out, as a rule, in the interests of the key owner of the corporation;
  • The scientific and educational components of finance determine the possibilities of professional realization of graduates of the master's degree as researchers at research institutes and university professors.

You can find out more about your future profession within the framework of the Master's degree program in Finance here:
The company's finances
Audit and consulting
Banks and financial markets

You can find information about the employment of graduates in the Graduates section about their profession