Financial planning jobs plentiful
Financial planning salaries are on the rise, fuelled by an increase in demand for quality financial planning talent.
Jonathan Wren chief executive Mary Anne Maling says demand for financial planners mirrors that of accountants which has boomed over the past couple of years.
According to a study by Gottliebsen Research commissioned by Jonathan Wren Financial Recruitment Specialists, the average salary for an accountant has risen by 5.5 per cent to $55,133 in the last financial year.
Maling says financial planners have experienced a job boom parallel to that of their beancounter contemporaries. She attributes the growth of demand for planning jobs to the growing popularity of investment portfolios and banks becoming more proactive about marketing their financial services to their huge customer databases.
Maling says the accounting job market had 28,207 positions advertised over the past financial year and has ridden on the backs of the buoyant Australian economy and the changes posed by the introduction of the GST.
She also says accountants are beginning to move away from their traditional outposts of book balancers and into business advisory, financial management and business development roles previously the domain of the financial planner.
Statistics specific to the financial services sector will be available in the middle of February when Jonathan Wren releases further findings of the extensive study into the banking and finance sectors.
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