4. Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
6. Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
18. Hospitality, Travel and tourism
The commerce programme at PUC is a versatile stream as it opens multiple career pathways for students after 12th grade. You can choose to pursue Humanities, applied or performing arts, business studies, law or any commerce-based subjects. The skills that you learn and the subjects that you study in PUC Commerce make you future-ready no matter which career path you opt for. Each year, universities are adding new college programmes and specialisations that are interesting and lead towards highly lucrative career paths. You can even consider foreign colleges and the many contemporary programmes. Here are 20 career options in Commerce that are trending currently.
Chartered Accountants play a host of roles in finance and tax management. They can be tax auditors, planners, GST specialists, and more. They can work in multinational companies, governments, non-government organisations, or private tax consultants. This is a highly specialised field with great earning potential.
Finance managers have a special role in all organisations to handle the day-to-day finances. Their responsibilities include payroll management, financial planning, investment management, capital management, cash flow
management, financial reporting and risk management among others.
They advise the board on legal, statutory and regulatory requirements. They are also involved in the decision-making process for the company’s tax filing.
CFA’s work with multinational companies to conduct in-depth research and analysis and guide investment companies in complex financial markets.
Auditors examine, analyse and interpret the organisation’s accounts and evaluate and prepare financial statements to advise them on finance management.
CPAs advise clients on financial matters, preparing and filing tax documents and creating financial reports.
They advise and manage the legal aspects of the business. They will be part of preparing legal documents, protecting the company’s interests by ensuring they adhere to the regional and local laws and fighting any cases filed against them.
Copyright attorneys are legal experts in legalities around copyright and intellectual property law. They will frame copyright documents, file them and support the client in filing cases in case of copyright breach.
Plan, organised and executed events for entertainment, corporate, private functions etc.
They handle all aspects of market research, marketing planning and execution. They work closely with the sales and customer service teams to propagate marketing messages of the company and its products.
Business analysts assess the organisation’s performance and help them prepare streamlined processes and systems. They conduct research to identify problem areas and provide solutions for businesses and their clients.
They can be trading shares as a day trader, for an institution (mutual funds or share brokers) or for individuals.
They deal in the derivatives market and trade derivatives.
You can be a personal banker for bank customers, helping them with their bank work and informing them about the various bank products for overdrafts, loans, EMIs, or investments among others.
They work with private individuals or High net worth individuals to help them plan their finances and maintain a diversified portfolio across different investment instruments.
They provide financial advice to commercial clients and organisations. They promote corporate banking services and design new products to facilitate their corporate clients.
Risk analysts examine the firm’s investment portfolio and analyse the risk involved to aid the decision-making process. They examine domestic and overseas investment using statistical tools and models, mathematical formulas and financial modelling software. They offer projections of potential losses, opportunities, scope for diversification, currency exchange and investment strategies.
You can be a travel blogger, run and operate a hotel, Airbnb homestay or a travel agency. After taking professional certification exams like IATA you can become an international tour operator or ticketer. There are many exciting opportunities in the industry that one can consider.
Research analysts have demand across industries in the private and public sectors. The roles can be in areas of operations research, economics, stock market, finance, and market research Management Information Systems (MIS) among others. It entails extensive application of mathematics, statistics and software tools for statistical modelling.
Actuaries have a specialised role in the finance industry to analyse the financial cost of risk and uncertainty using mathematics, statistics and financial theory. They assess the risk of potential events and help businesses and clients develop policies to minimise the cost of that risk. Considering its specialist nature, the actuary profession attracts high salaries and high demand and one can work as an independent consultant or for an insurance company.
There are a multitude of other fields and specialisations one can consider within the above-mentioned careers. As you start working or pursue a postgraduate programme, you can discover new avenues.
