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This role is very much the liaison between Finance Land and the employees of a company who generally haven't specialized in finance. Paychecks and benefits and retirement accounts and insurance stuff and time off — they are all handled here. This role has a greater customer service feel to it, so it helps to be a “people person,” as they say.

Analysts have the best job in the financial world, as far as I’m concerned. These people get to do a whole lot of research and analysis to derive useful information from data or otherwise yet unstudied scenarios. Normally, analysts receive budget information or corporate financial information and are told to do the calculations necessary to make recommendations. Often these projects are fairly broad, and analysts have to model new forms of calculations, assess market trends, and make other similar efforts that require a degree of creativity and innovation.

As you’re typing on the computer, if you spell a word incorrectly, spell-check will likely correct you. Auditors are kind of like the spell-checkers for corporate finance. They go back and check the work of all the other financial professionals, making sure everything is accurate, correct, and done properly. They’re also usually the ones who discover cases of fraud or embezzlement. A special type of auditing, wherein auditors do their calculations for the purpose of presenting them in court, is called forensic accounting.