How to become a financial analyst

Official title: Financial analyst

Also called: Credit analyst, Equities analyst, Investment research analyst, Client Investment Performance and Reporting Analyst, Credit Manager, Executive, Product Analyst, Product Manager, Research Analyst, Restructuring and Insolvency Associate/Restructuring and Insolvency Executive, Restructuring and Insolvency Manager, Restructuring and Insolvency Senior/Restructuring and Insolvency Senior Executive

Financial analyst conducts economic research and elicits valuable analyses on financial matters such as profitability, liquidity, solvency, and asset management. He/she also provides recommendations on financial matters for decision-making processes.

Main tasks

• Analysing financial or trading information to produce forecasts of business, industry, and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions
• Maintaining knowledge and staying abreast of developments in the fields of industrial technology, business, finance, and economic theory
• Interpreting data affecting investment programmes, such as price, yield, stability, future trends in investment risks, and economic influences
• Monitoring fundamental economic, industrial, and corporate developments through the analysis of information obtained from financial publications and services, investment banking firms, government agencies, trade publications, company sources, and personal interviews
• Recommending investments and investment timing to companies, investment firm staff, or the investing public
• Preparing plans of action for investment based on financial analyses

Ways in

• University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 6 universities in Singapore

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Median pay: $90,000 a year. The middle half earn $65,520 to $129,408 a year.
• 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.

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Questions people ask

How do I become a financial analyst?

Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees.

How much does a financial analyst earn in Singapore?

Median full-time pay is $90,000 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $65,520 to $129,408.

Will AI change the work of a financial analyst?

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 Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, 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

Updated 4 October 2026