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Back office specialist

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

Other denominations:
Back office administrator Back office clerk Back office officer Back office specialist Financial office specialist

Back office specialists perform operations of administrative and organisational nature in a financial company, in support of the front office. They process administration, take care of financial transactions, manage data and company documents and perform supportive tasks and other diverse back office operations in coordination with other parts of the company.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Processing insurance enrolments, cancellations, claims transactions, policy changes and payments;
(b) Obtaining and compiling statistical or actuarial data based on routine or special sources of information;
(c) Calculating totals, averages, percentages and other details and presenting them in the required tabular form;
(d) Preparing financial documents, and calculating interest or brokerage charges and stamp duties payable;
(e) Maintaining records of bonds, shares and other securities bought or sold on behalf of clients or employer.

Knowledge

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

Digital competencies

  • Performing general clerical and administrative tasks
  • Communicating with colleagues and clients
  • Complying with operational procedures
  • Providing financial advice
  • Directing operational activities

Digital competencies

  • Managing, gathering and storing digital data

Personal competencies

  • Supporting others
  • Leading others
  • Communicating

Professional groups of the occupation

Managers

Administrative and commercial managers

Business services and administration managers

Policy and planning managers

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

Policy and planning managers

2.765

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

59,21%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

4,54% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

75,12%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

5,71%

Part-time contracts

1,11% Turnover index

764

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-2%

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.

Administrative and commercial managers

56%

44%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Administrative and commercial managers

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

Business services and administration managers

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?

Policy and planning managers

No experience
10%
Less than 1 year
27%
Between 1 and 2 years
15%
Between 2 and 4 years
28%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
15%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
45%
Administrative and support service activities
17%
Information and communication
8%
Manufacturing
7%
Human health and social work activities
6%
Others
17%

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.