Finance sector
By qualifying your staff with CIMA, you can be confident that your organisation will have financially qualified business professionals who possess a broad range of skills, and are thus able to offer strategic and practical business advice, make and support key decisions, and manage risk.
Typical roles of CIMA professionals within a finance function are:
- CFO
- finance director
- financial controller
- product controller
- finance business partner
- risk analyst/manager
- fund accountant
- financial reporting manager
- head of revenue reporting
- management accountant
- internal audit manager
- business performance manager.
CIMA members' skills are often used outside the finance function - for example in these roles:
- chief administrative officer
- head of customer operations
- head of group strategy and planning
- relationship manager
- business analyst/information analyst
- sales planning manager
- business manager
- change consultant
- management consultant
- project manager.
CIMA is different from CFA
CIMA is focused on business and provides more emphasis on:
- accounting techniques (particularly in management accounting)
- business strategy and management.
The CFA syllabus centres on the technical matters that will enable its members to value, trade in and advise on a range of financial investments and derivative instruments.
CIMA's focus is the knowledge needed by accountants and managers to add value to business.
For more, please contact our financial services business development representatives:
T. + 44 020 7663 5441
E. bdc@cimaglobal.com
See CIMA supporting the financial services sector to find out more about how CIMA can support you and your staff.