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Top career options for commerce students. Interested in finance. Something with less restriction in creativity.


Garima Bakshi 3rd Aug, 2025
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IIBMS Mumbai 8th Aug, 2025

If you're a commerce student with a strong interest in finance and want a career with fewer restrictions on creativity, you have several exciting options to explore:

  1. Investment Banking – Offers high growth and challenges with strategic problem-solving.

  2. Financial Analyst – Combines number-crunching with insights and forecasting.

  3. FinTech Roles – Perfect blend of finance and tech innovation—great for creative thinkers.

  4. Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) – Globally respected, ideal for those interested in market research and asset management.

  5. Entrepreneurship in Finance – Start your own finance consultancy, advisory, or edtech—freedom to innovate.

  6. Financial Planner – Helping individuals design their financial future can be both impactful and flexible.

  7. Creative Finance Content Creation – Use YouTube, blogging, or social media to educate and engage people on finance topics.

These roles offer a balance of structure and creativity while allowing you to stay rooted in finance.

Nikita shahi 4th Aug, 2025

Hello,

If you're a commerce student with an interest in finance and prefer structured, analytical roles over creative ones, here are some strong career options you can consider;

  • Chartered Accountancy (CA) it is a  high demand and respected in finance and accounting fields.
  • Company Secretary (CS) focuses on corporate laws and compliance.
  • CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst)  Best for if you are interested in investment banking or portfolio management.
  • Banking and Insurance – Through exams like IBPS, SBI PO, LIC AAO, etc.
  • Financial Analyst or Investment Banker – Requires a strong academic base and often additional certifications.

Hope you will find it helpful

Thank you !



gopi 4th Aug, 2025

Hello Aspirant,

If you are a commerce student with a strong interest in finance and also the desire to be creative, here are some possibilities:

  1. Financial Analyst in Startups – You will be able to create robots and models that go beyond conventional finance.
  2. Fintech Product Manager – Approaches your knowledge of finance to create financial products.
  3. Investment Blogger / Finance Influencer – New possibilities from being knowledgeable and learning to educate, as well as developing a personal brand.
  4. Entrepreneur / Startup Founder (Finance Domain) – Develop a new product or service to run a business in financial services or fintech domain.
  5. Wealth Manager / Financial Planner – You are able to create curated strategies that are designed specifically for each client.
  6. Behavioural Finance Researcher – You will look into the psychological aspects of why markets move (a financial aspect coupled with human nature).
  7. ESG & Impact Investment Associate – You get to use your money for some great change, and you get to be somewhat creative in how you do it.
  8. Corporate Strategy Spaces – Involves financial acumen in the context of painting the business landscape.
Babita Rawat 3rd Aug, 2025

As a commerce student interested in finance with creativity have wide range of career options:
- UX designer: you'll learn to design financial apps and interfaces such as budgeting, trading and UPI apps
- Finance Journalist: in this you'll write articles and make interview on financial trends.
- Financial Planner: helps others with their finance to guide them about planning budget and investment related topics.
- Cost Accountant: focuses mainly on cost management of business and building strategies.
- Entrepreneurship: This is the best and creative field you can choose to build your own product or service.
- Teaching: Share your finance knowledge as a creator, teacher or professor.
- Marketing Manager: Keeps on changing due to market change and you would gain many new experience about market and how it works.
- Digital Marketing: showcasing the product and service on social media through creative advertisement.

If you wanna go for professional career options you go for these:
- chartered accountant
- Company secretary
- Investment Banker
- Financial Analyst
- Human resource manager

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