Financial Management (Hons) University of Portsmouth

Overview

You'll develop your understanding of how finance impacts and underpins a whole business as you explore key financial and business functions. You'll learn to contribute to good financial decision making, which is key to the success of any business, and discover topics including economics, data analytics and reporting.

During your second and third years you'll focus on topics you're interested in by choosing optional modules. You could explore areas including analytics, financial systems, finance in sport or the psychology of investment as you prepare for the career you want when you graduate.

Graduates of this course have gone on to be finance managers in business, accountants, or to work in financial services.

• Be employment-ready by using industry-standard software and databases such as Oracle, SAP, Sage and S&P Capital IQ
• Gain skills in modelling and visualising financial and business data in our data analytics modules
• Benefit from the opportunity to gain additional certifications, for example the ACCA Data Analytics certificate
• Apply your learning by helping local charities and student entrepreneurs with their finances
• Gain a Bloomberg Certificate (a trading platform that's used by 250,000 financial service professionals) in our dedicated Bloomberg Suite

• Feel supported throughout your studies through our peer mentoring, maths support and our team of friendly staff who'll get to know you well

The blend of business skills and financial knowledge you'll develop on this degree prepares you for many career options.

Job vacancies in the financial services sector in the UK rose by 38% in 2021 and surveys show that 32% of UK firms are suffering shortages in financial, professional and business services skills (Soaring demand for financial services skills, 2021).

• IBM
• NHS
• Deloitte
• Ernst & Young
• KPMG
• PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
• Amazon
• Alliotts LLP (accountancy firm)
• Conde Nast Publications
• Ergonomic Technology Solutions

• accountant
• insolvency administrator
• financial advisor
• sales representative
• payroll administrator
• computer system validation consultant

(Data sourced from HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey.)