90% of the financial professionals shows optimistic and foresees a professional route in his company

In 2013 PageGroup, referent in skilled selection, has covered through his marks Michael Page, Michael Page Interim Management and Page Personnel more than 300 financial positions, an area of strategic specialisation for the company. Thus, the quality consultancy of selection has presented, during a meeting in the offices of the group in Barcelona, a barometer in which it collects the labour situation of these profiles and gives to know the opinion and the feelings of a total of 728 financial professionals.

Ones of the main aims that share the majority of the companies in the actuality is to conserve his business in spite of the cuts by means of continuous reforms, increase the sales abroad because of the saturation of the local demand and improve his profitability. All this gives place to that the financial professionals have turned into key positions and of which depends, in a lot of occasions, the future of the company.

According to desvela the study, the demand of these profiles has seen increased especially in determinate sectors like Services (44% of the respondents), followed of Industry (17%) and Construction (11%). Nevertheless, in other less affected sectors by the current economic situation, the profits generated by the companies have made possible the enlargement of his staff offering new opportunities for these professionals. According to 37% of the interviewed, Technology/eCommerce, as well as Big Consummate/Feeding (23%) and Farma (16%) are the areas that better labour perspectives present.

44% of the respondents reveals to wish the place of Financial Director, together with the one of Controller, preferred by 33%. Regarding the sex, this position keeps on being led by the professional men (38%), with regard to the ones of women (29%). Likewise, between the most frequent profiles between the interviewed stand out the pertaining to the area of Controlling and General Accounting, with 23% both, followed of the auditsors with 13%. On the other hand, the new requirements of the market do that the aptitudes that have more in account to the hour to select to a Financial Director are his competition to know manage equipment (58% of the opinions), followed of his analytical capacity and the resolution of problems (33%).

45% of the respondents has manifested that between the main motivations to opt to a place stands out the responsibility and the projection, followed of the functions (42%) and the labour stability (38%). In last place, find , in comparison to previous years, the wage and the schedule, nowadays reasons of lower weight for these profiles.

In what to remuneration refers , 91% keeps satisfied. More specifically, in front of the question of which type of reward consider the most interesting, 71% of the self-evident men that prefers a fixed wage more variable in front of the women (43%), that also consider the social profits (corresponding to 29% of the opinions).

Regarding the labour conciliation, the financial professionals of our country are generally happy, like this expresseses it 70% of the respondents. Finally, the study reveals the high degree of satisfaction that reports the sector to the professionals, since 56% has affirmed that, in the case to have to change of position, would prefer to remain in the same sector.