Graduates may fill the following professional roles and relative functions in the listed fields of employment: Junior economist
Functions:
- provides economic consulting to draw up investment and financing plans;
- participates in the production of micro- and macro-economic analytical reports and forecasts;
- carries out studies to forecast interest and exchange rate trends and the relationship between these and the stock and commodities markets (direction of interest rates, interest rate curves, volatility, implicit in options prices and realized, of interest rates, direction of exchange rates and volatility, implicit in options prices and realized, of exchange rates).
Career opportunities:
- economist in research departments of economic and financial institutions (e.g. asset management, investment funds, hedge funds), central and local administration, regulatory authorities, representation bodies, international organisations and in stocks/commodities;
- economic-financial analyst and consultant for public administrations and companies, designing and managing public interventions.
Junior financial analyst:
Functions:
- provides financial consulting to draw up investment and funding plans;
- monitors company equity and financial assets, including the use of cash liquidity;
- gathers information for financial statements and estimates financial securities (stocks and other bonds);
- liaises with credit institutes;
- analyses financial statements to provide recommendations for individual companies (buy/sell, long/short);
- analyses data to identify statistically significant and stable relationships between fundamental company variables (size, book-to-market) and macro variables;
- closely analyses the risks of financial activities;
- optimises stock portfolios in terms of risk/return;
- advises traders on operations (buy/sell, long/short) or also works as a trader.
Career opportunities:
- financial operations and consulting in industries, commercial firms, banks, finance and insurance companies (financial promoter for asset management, investment funds and hedge funds, marketing analyst and manager of financial products, economic analyst to support the finance department and quantitative analyst in the finance field.
Economist and company legal expert
Functions:
- manages the legal and regulatory aspects of the company;
- carries out economic and legal research;
- holds an administrative role in economic and legal fields;
- manages relations with public administrations and regulatory authorities;
- manages tax issues;
- manages company policies in line with important economic variables;
Career opportunities:
Employed by or freelance consultant working for:
- businesses;
- economic-financial institutions;
- public administrations and companies;
- national and international consulting, service and research firms;
- non profit organisations and institutions;
- regulatory authorities, representation bodies and international organisations;
- law firms.
