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Back office specialist

Latest available data: December 2024 (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

Clerical support workers

Numerical and material recording clerks

Numerical clerks

Statistical, finance and insurance clerks

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Statistical, finance and insurance clerks

2.689

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

59,89%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-1,57% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

73,34%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

6,17%

Part-time contracts

1,13% Turnover index

772

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-1%

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.

Numerical and material recording clerks

51%

49%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Numerical and material recording clerks

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

Numerical clerks

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?

Statistical, finance and insurance clerks

No experience
11%
Less than 1 year
26%
Between 1 and 2 years
16%
Between 2 and 4 years
27%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
15%
Activitats administratives i serveis auxiliars
38%
Activitats professionals, científiques i tècniques
11%
Informació i comunicacions
8%
Activitats financeres i d'assegurances
8%
Indústries manufactureres
7%
Altres
28%

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.