The Accounting & Financial Management Master prepares you for a broad range of career opportunities. Accounting & Financial Management graduates generally start their careers in one of the following functional areas:
- as an (external) auditor at one of the Big Four or medium-sized accounting firms
- as an (internal) auditor at a large multinational corporation
- as a finance manager and control specialist (such as financial controller, treasurer, business analyst) at a large multinational corporation
- as a financial or valuation advisor at a consulting firm or the transaction services department of the Big Four accounting firms.
Many of our graduates advance into senior management positions such as partner in an accounting firm, financial director, or senior business controller at a large company. An Accounting & Financial Management degree gives you a great start on your way to becoming a chief financial officer, a chief audit executive or senior audit partner!
When you graduate from this programme, you’ll be a specialist in the financial and non-financial information needed by managers and investors; how it is gathered, secured, checked and used in the ‘nerve centres’ of economic organisations and markets. This means you can contribute to help managers make economically sound and sustainable decisions. Such decisions range from motivating and evaluating employees, deciding on investments or mergers and acquisitions, to scrutinising new business opportunities.
Want to know more? Check out the MSc employment report and the RSM Career Centre.