Also called: Data Analyst
Collects and checks company financial data for services like Bloomberg or FactSet.
You read company filings, enter key numbers into the database and fix errors clients report.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. A bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or economics, then training on the vendor's data standards; spreadsheet skills matter.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Finance, Economics.
Shrinking. Declining as AI extracts data automatically.
High risk for 10 years. Document-reading AI now extracts company financials automatically; the remaining work is checking exceptions.
Classes: Accounting class, Excel or computer apps.
Official data: O*NET occupation 43-9111.
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