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Middle office analyst

Latest available data: December 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Derivatives middle office analyst Middle office analyst Middle office associate Middle office junior manager Middle office regulatory reform analyst Middle office risk and control analyst Middle office senior manager Middle office specialist Senior analyst-control Structured products middle office analyst Transaction reporting specialist

Middle office analysts work in the treasury of a financial company, ensuring compliance with company policy and legislation, providing research and analysis on financial matters, measuring risk and supporting operations in the front office.

Tasks

(a) Analysing financial information to produce forecasts of business, industry, and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions;
(b) Maintaining knowledge and staying abreast of developments in the fields of industrial technology, business, finance, and economic theory;
(c) Interpreting data affecting investment programmes, such as price, yield, stability, future trends in investment risks and economic influences;
(d) Monitoring economic, industrial, and corporate developments through analysis of information obtained from financial publications and services, investment banking firms, government agencies, trade publications, company sources and personal interviews;
(e) Recommending investments and investment timing to companies, investment firm staff or the investing public;
(f) Determining the prices at which securities should be syndicated and offered to the public;
(g) Preparing plans of action for investment based on financial analyses;
(h) Evaluating and comparing the relative quality of various securities in a given industry;
(i) Presenting oral and written reports on general economic trends, individual corporations, and entire industries.

Knowledge

  • Management and administration
  • Finance, banking and insurance
  • Computer use
  • Statistics
  • Secretarial and office work

Digital competencies

  • Performing general clerical and administrative tasks
  • Complying with operational procedures
  • Communicating with colleagues and clients
  • Executing financial transactions
  • Managing budgets or finances

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Processing information, ideas and concepts
  • Supporting others
  • Dealing with problems
  • Communicating

Professional groups of the occupation

Professionals

Business and administration professionals

Finance professionals

Financial analysts

Other occupations of the professional group

Related training

Higher education
  • Business administration and management Bachelor
  • International Business Management Bachelor
  • Business Studies Bachelor
  • Accounting and Finance Bachelor
  • Telecommunications Technologies and Services Engineering Bachelor

Legend by training level:

Bachelor's degree and Master's degree
HVET: Higher Vocational Education and Training, IVET: Initial Vocational Education and Training, IQP: Initial Qualification Programme
Certificates of professionalism 1, 2, or 3

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Financial analysts

533

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

66,79%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

1,91% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

84,80%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

5,07%

Part-time contracts

1,05% Turnover index

71

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

20%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Business and administration professionals

45%

55%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Business and administration professionals

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Finance professionals

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Financial analysts

No experience
9%
Less than 1 year
37%
Between 1 and 2 years
10%
Between 2 and 4 years
18%
Between 4 and 8 years
9%
More than 8 years
17%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
25%
Financial and insurance activities
18%
Information and communication
16%
Administrative and support service activities
16%
Manufacturing
6%
Others
19%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.