Financial analyst

A financial analyst evaluates financial data to guide business and investment decisions. They build financial models, analyze company and market performance, forecast results, evaluate investments and budgets, and turn numbers into recommendations that help managers and investors decide where to put money and how to plan.

The role is analytical and central to finance, spanning corporate planning, investing, and many industries, and increasingly supported by AI analysis tools. Financial analysts work in companies, banks, investment firms, and beyond.

The job suits analytical, detail-oriented, business-minded people who enjoy working with numbers and models, like turning data into decisions, and want a versatile finance role — with the durable value increasingly in framing questions and judgment over the modeling itself.