Financial Managers

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Risk & user votes

Calculated automation risk

17% (Minimal Risk)

Minimal Risk (0-20%): This occupation appears difficult to replace end-to-end with current or near-future automation, including AI software and robotics. Roles in this range usually depend on human judgement, creativity, care, leadership, specialist expertise, or adapting to messy real-world situations. AI and machines may still change parts of the work, but the occupation is likely to remain a distinct human role.

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Human strengths important in this job

These are human abilities and work contexts that are important in this occupation. They may help explain why parts of the role are harder to replace end-to-end, but they are not the only inputs into the automation score.

Decision-making and problem solving

Very important
Why this matters
Analyze information, weigh tradeoffs, and choose the best solution—especially when situations are ambiguous, high-stakes, or have real-world consequences.
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Coaching and developing others

Very important
Why this matters
Helps people learn and improve through coaching, mentoring, and feedback. This relies on trust, motivation, and adapting guidance to each person—work that’s hard to replace end-to-end with automation.
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Coordinating others’ work

Very important
Why this matters
Bringing people together, assigning tasks, and keeping a group aligned so work gets done.
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Social perceptiveness

Quite important
Why this matters
Noticing others’ emotions and reactions in the moment and adjusting what you say or do based on why they’re responding that way.
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Persuasion

Quite important
Why this matters
Influencing people to change their minds or behavior through conversation, trust, and negotiation.
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Thinking creatively

Quite important
Why this matters
Coming up with original ideas and designs—creating new concepts, products, systems, or artistic work. This kind of open-ended invention and taste-based judgment is harder to automate end-to-end than routine, rule-based tasks.
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Developing objectives and strategies

Quite important
Why this matters
Sets long-term goals and chooses strategies and actions to reach them, weighing tradeoffs and adapting plans as conditions change.
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Communicating with people outside the organization

Quite important
Why this matters
Represents the organization to customers, the public, or government—handling questions, concerns, and relationship-building through conversations, writing, calls, or email.
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Active learning

Quite important
Why this matters
Keeps learning from new information and applying it to make better decisions now and in the future, especially when situations change.
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What users think

Based on 576 votes

43% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted they are unsure if this occupation will be automated. However, employees may be able to find reassurance in the automated risk level we have generated, which shows 17% chance of automation.

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What is the likelihood that Financial Managers will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

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Pay & outlook

Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2024, the median annual wage for Financial Managers was $161,700 ($78 per hour).

The median annual wage for Financial Managers was 226.7% higher than the national median annual wage, which stood at $49,500.

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Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Growth

Very fast growth relative to other professions

The number of 'Financial Managers' job openings is expected to rise 14.8% by 2034

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Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Volume

Significantly greater range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2024 there were 818,620 people employed as 'Financial Managers' within the United States.

This represents around 0.5% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 188 people are employed as 'Financial Managers'.

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What people are saying (12)

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Human (Moderate)
15 Mar 2026 22:21
20 years is a long time in AI, so I voted moderate. I can imagine a future where most tasks are automated, but that would affect staff level more than manager level responsibilities. The manager level makes forecasting decisions, holds departments accountable to budgets and initiatives, looks for risks, & presentations. More human interaction and influence. I don’t see AI doing that stuff, but like I said 20 years is a long time..
alex (Uncertain)
25 Aug 2025 05:34
With the rapid development of AI technology, many major tasks will increasingly be automated and streamlined. This advancement will not only drive efficiency but also lead to cost savings for organisations. As a result, certain jobs may be eliminated, and management roles could be consolidated, since AI will assist in handling complex and high-efficiency tasks that traditionally required multiple human roles.
B (Low)
27 Nov 2024 23:53
Decision making based on regulations is needed
FZ
08 Nov 2025 04:32
I like what you said because the regulations will change and I feel like there needs to be some critical thinking in place. There needs to be an ability to adjust on the fly because reprogramming is slower than a human brainstorming ideas. This is also a main reason on why I think this job will probably last longer than we think, and not become taken over by AI, but using AI as a tool for us.
David (Low)
08 Sep 2023 03:50
It would be certain that most accountant will be replaced by AI tools. However, I think finance manager position will remain for next 20 years. It will require some human responsible for all the AI work and review. Certainly these manager job will be no longer managing people only but the system.
Voter 325 (Moderate)
17 Apr 2021 16:14
I think it will be. Because AI is growing up so fast.
Zach
07 Sep 2020 22:48
@Casey kerr -- Finance Managers are business managers at corporations. They don't give financial advice to individuals. It's likely that financial advisors' jobs will change a great deal as new technologies emerge that make it easier for people to make investment decisions with machine guidance, but Finance Managers will likely remain. Someone needs to hold the checkbook and manage the budget. Someone needs to be there to decide whether to sign off on projects or not. If tasks like these are handed to robots, it will only be after sufficient technological advances that make humans obsolete in these functions. At that time, the world will look much, much different. This will be one of the later jobs to fall off.
Openyour Eyes
26 Jan 2023 13:26
Hahah sorry I guess you haven’t seen what AI can do. We’re all stuffed…
Casey kerr (Highly likely)
29 Nov 2019 06:08
Dude people shouldn't be giving financial advice. Only robots.
Bill Williams
27 Oct 2020 08:52
Finance is a very competitive field. If only robots gave financial advice, the financial competitiveness of most firms would only be limited to the specs of the robot they employed rather than the prevailing market conditions. Prevailing Market Conditions might become more unpredictable when persons using Artificial Intelligence are trying a gain a competitive edge over firms employing Artificial Intelligence only. Therefore, the firms which end up hiring a combination of tools, both human beings and artificial intelligence, will be the more successful at predicting market trends and profiting from lucrative trades and/or investments.
Paul Whitmore
16 Jun 2021 09:40
If only robots give Financial Advice, then the competitive edge to Finance will be lost, as a consequence, little to any financial gains will be made by most companies, and individuals. Finance requires the human element along with Data and Decision Science for entities to profit or to remain financially viable.
David
11 Jul 2021 05:48
Finance is a weird profession now, the tools for people to do their own retirement funds are basically all free and available. If you want to buy just FAANG stocks and hold them 20 years you'll probably be fine. What people are missing though is that stocks do not = ALL financial decisions. The intelligence it takes to mix different things together to keep risk/reward at a good balance to achieve peoples specific goals and the decision making to choose the exact financial instruments for this moment in time cannot be generically automated, there are too many variables. Financial analyst/advisor are heavy decision making jobs that require a certain knack computers just don't have and will never have.
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Job description

Plan, direct, or coordinate accounting, investing, banking, insurance, securities, and other financial activities of a branch, office, or department of an establishment.

O*NET-SOC code: 11-3031.00