Personal Statement: Finance Career Goals, Skills, and Future Plans

This personal statement outlines the author's aspirations for a career in finance, detailing their academic background in accounting and finance, and their motivation for pursuing a Master's degree in Finance. It highlights the skills acquired through studying finance, including interpersonal, communication, and analytical abilities, as well as knowledge of IT software and commercial acumen. The author describes the role of a finance officer and their inspiration for studying for an MPhil in Finance to further their academic background. The statement articulates their goal to become a lecturer in finance, imparting knowledge and inspiring students, and their future career vision. The document also includes references to support the claims made. The author also discusses the skills that will contribute to the finance field of discipline by imparting the skills and education of the subject to the students.

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Academic Background
Accounting and finance degrees gives the students combination of the background
and technical knowledge and the skills, which they requires as basis of their careers either in
the accounting profession or in wider commercial sector. The degrees provided by accounting
and finance conventions and technicalities that governs the way wealth is measured and the
way company behave. Although the subject accounting is viewed as emphasizing calculation
and computational skills, the current academic accounting and finance subject is far much
broader.
Finance Course at Post Graduate Level
In my thought, masters in the finance subject could be stepping stone to one’s careers.
Whatever be the economic climate, the experts in finance are always on demand worldwide
for the fields such as financial consultancy, securities firms, multinational companies, fund
management and banking. The post graduate on finance helps in providing knowledge that is
required for getting career in finance that one wants.
Knowledge or Skills picked from Studying Finance
There is no doubt that carving out of the high-fly career in the finance helps in
achieving more than good level of grades. In the today’s workplace that is fast-evolving,
finance professionals’ needs to demonstrate their skills from the razor-sharp ability of
analytics and the stellar interpersonal skills to the sharp understanding of the industry-
standard software. Hence, the knowledge I have picked up from studying finance includes
interpersonal skills, ability for communicating, financial reporting skills, analytical ability

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skills, knowledge of the IT software, management experience, commercial acumen, capacity
for the innovation and the problem-solving skills.
Role of Finance Officer
My job role as finance officer includes providing the administrative and financial
support to the stakeholders, clients, colleagues of business. This role may attracts the
applicants keen for moving up the ladder of financial corporate, those with the ambitions of
being the manager of finance or even CFO someday. Financial officer reports to manager and
supports accounting and finance teams. The role of financial officer is that, which is required
to make interactions with the several departments internally.
Studying M.Phil. Finance
The things that inspires me to study MPhil Finance is that it will help in providing
strong academic background for the person like me who have opted for career in the finance.
It ideally suits me because I intend to continue to Ph.D. The programme of MPhil does not
requires the students for undertaking any type of training of research.
Aim for Achieving
I aspires to be able to impact the knowledge by lecturing. Being a lecturer, I can
impart the knowledge of finance subject to the students and inspires them for gaining skills to
perform job roles in future. Further, I think, for day-to-day work, lecturing is excellent job
that one can do such as program development, working with and teaching the students and
the other services.
Future-Career Goal
I would like to see myself as lecturer in finance. It is because it is incredibly
rewarding job. I can talk about the subject, which I will genuinely enjoy. I can deliver the

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courses at satisfactory level, develop the courses and I can introduce the new courses as
necessary. I can also supervise the students of Ph.D. and research assistant.
Skills Contribution to Chosen field discipline
My skills that will contribute in the finance field of discipline is by imparting the
skills and education of the subject to the students. This will enable the students to gain great
knowledge in the subject, which will help them in contributing to their career. Further, I can
also contribute in this field by continuing my research work on new accounting and finance
issues.

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