Banking Professionals

How to become a Treasury Operations Specialist

Official Chinese title (2022 occupational classification): 银行国库业务专业人员

Handles the business of the central and local state treasuries.

Main tasks

Setting policies and rules for agency treasury work and seeing them carried out
Opening single treasury accounts for finance departments, handling the collection, division and transfer of budget funds as well as refunds and payments, preparing accounting reports, analysing treasury income and spending figures, and promoting treasury information systems such as the link between finance, tax, treasury and banks
Making sure collecting bodies such as finance, tax and customs, and treasury collection points, pay what they receive into the treasury promptly and in full, and coordinating work between departments
Handling treasury cash management
Issuing and redeeming government bonds through financial institutions on behalf of the finance ministry, helping to plan the issue of government bonds and drafting the related rules
Organising and overseeing how financial institutions issue, underwrite, redeem and protect government bonds against forgery
Applying treasury management rules and tightening review and oversight when handling budget income and spending
Overseeing the opening of accounts for government deposits and checking the treasury business banks and other financial institutions handle on its behalf

Ways in

University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 105 universities in China Related undergraduate subject classes in the Ministry of Education catalogue (2025): Finance (0203); majors such as Investment, Finance, Financial Engineering, Insurance, Financial Mathematics, Credit Management. Matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
Vocational majors: Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Wealth Management (530205). Vocational major 530205 Wealth Management (财富管理), 3 years. The Ministry of Education's 2022 major profiles list this occupation among those the major prepares students for (职业面向). Example certificates: Banking Professional Qualification; Securities, Futures and Fund Practitioner Qualification; Accounting Professional and Technical Qualification; Health and Wealth Planning; Life and Health Insurance Claims; Robo Advisory in Finance.
National qualification: National professional qualification: Banking Professional Qualification. A national qualification that shows your level; it is not required to work. Listed in the national vocational qualifications catalogue (国家职业资格目录, 2021) as Banking Professional Qualification (银行业专业人员职业资格), run by China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission; Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. Peernovo links it to this occupation.

Pay · AI and this job

Median pay in China: CN¥80,100 a year (2025).
Middle half: CN¥55,300 to CN¥127,700. One in ten earn less than CN¥42,000 and one in ten more than CN¥202,900.
This is the figure for the mid group Economic and Financial Professionals, not for this job alone.
National figure: wage prices of enterprise employees from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) enterprise pay survey. The public sector and the self-employed are not covered.
Guangzhou only: median CN¥148,305 a year (2025), middle half CN¥97,541 to CN¥229,430.
This is the figure for the minor group Banking Professionals, not for this job alone.
Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Who does this work

The census group Economic and Financial Professionals holds 2.2% of everyone employed in China; 71% of its workers are women (2020 Census).
50.4% are under 35, 45.7% are 35 to 54 and 3.9% are 55 or older. The middle age band is 30 to 34.
Census figures for the whole mid group (2020 long-form sample), not for this job alone.

Questions people ask

How do I become a Treasury Operations Specialist?

Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees; Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Wealth Management (530205).

How much does a Treasury Operations Specialist earn in China?

Across China, the median pay of enterprise employees is CN¥80,100 a year (Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS), 2025). The public sector and the self-employed are not covered. It is the figure for the mid group Economic and Financial Professionals. In Guangzhou alone it is CN¥148,305 a year (2025).

Will AI change the work of a Treasury Operations Specialist?

Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS): 2025 enterprise pay survey information: wage prices of enterprise employees by occupation mid group, and digital occupations (P10 to P90 annual CNY) (2025 (published 2026-07-08)), retrieved 5 October 2026
Guangzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau: Guangzhou 2025 labour market wage prices (P10 to P90 annual CNY by occupation) (2025 (enterprise pay survey)), retrieved 4 October 2026
National Bureau of Statistics of China: China Population Census Yearbook 2020, long-form tables 4-6 and 4-7 (employed by occupation mid group, sex, age) (2020 Census long form (10% sample)), retrieved 4 October 2026
International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Sources: Occupational Classification of the People's Republic of China (2022 edition, public consultation draft), Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, State Administration for Market Regulation and National Bureau of Statistics; Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, 2025 enterprise pay survey information; Guangzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, 2025 labour market wage prices; National Bureau of Statistics of China (www.stats.gov.cn), 2020 Population Census yearbook; Ministry of Education, vocational education major profiles (2022 revision) and undergraduate major catalogue (2025); Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, national vocational qualifications catalogue (2021); O*NET interest scores (CC BY 4.0); ILO global generative AI exposure index (CC BY 4.0). Figures processed by Peernovo. English text, translations and the matching of occupations to ISCO-08, majors, degree fields and qualifications by Peernovo.

Descriptions and tasks are Peernovo's own words, written from the facts in the Occupational Classification of the People's Republic of China (2022 edition). Job titles and work types are the classification's own.

Updated 5 October 2026