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Financial Risk Specialists
Analyze and measure exposure to credit and market risk threatening the assets, earning capacity, or economic state of an organization. May make recommendations to limit risk.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Analyze areas of potential risk to the assets, earning capacity, or success of organizations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Analyze new legislation to determine impact on risk exposure.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Conduct statistical analyses to quantify risk, using statistical analysis software or econometric models.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Confer with traders to identify and communicate risks associated with specific trading strategies or positions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Consult financial literature to ensure use of the latest models or statistical techniques.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Contribute to development of risk management systems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Determine potential environmental impacts of new products or processes on long-term growth and profitability.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Develop contingency plans to deal with emergencies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Develop or implement risk-assessment models or methodologies.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Devise scenario analyses reflecting possible severe market events.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss27%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
53%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 78% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.