Financial and Investment Analysts

Rafael Beckhauser (Small chance) says

because the planning, budgeting and forecasting (performance, demand, cash flow) are evolving with business intelligence and data driven. people are going to use their skills in python or sql. INCLUDING TREASURY MANAGEMENT; it is evolving in more data analysis and supply chain. MATH AND STATS SKILLS are essential including RISK MANAGEMENT as well.

Kohyar Shaikh (Small chance) says

Since the University Industry basically is a major source of revenue and skilled migrants to many countries especially those that attract a lot of international students like The US, Canada, UK, Australia and Germany and even Turkey and Northern Cyprus. There is a small chance however that all teaching shifts online with pre-recorded stuff.

Edim (Could go either way) says

Depending on the position.
Entry-level it's pretty much just data entry, things that can easily be automated.
On higher levels, it requires decision making, data analysis, and other skills that will be out of any computer's reach for quite some time still.
Overall it's fairly safe from automation as of now. The human brain is still the single best pattern recognition system that we know of and pattern recognition is a large part of Financial Analysis.

ANG BENG KUAN (Could go either way) says

Computer automation will continue to reform financial services and portfolio analysts sector with the advent of robo advisers and financial screening applications that is able to generate systematic results and interpret such outcome into decision-making. Software applications that could filter and differentiate corporate credits, extract data and keywords in business news across web space, and portfolio simulation engine based on risk return optimization.

Dunkjoe says

Looking at some of the comments, and understanding the industry, for companies employing manual procedures, yes, any job including financial analysts would be likely to be replaced by automation and AI (Smart Learning bots).

However, the Finance Industry requires analysis in association with human bias and understanding, so the very nature of financial analysts is likely not replicable by automation or AI easily.

Unless, everything is automated. But that would mean a large majority of jobs would be gone in every industry.

Nick (Highly likely) says

Because its literally just reading back results of formulas. Machine Learning can do the formulas and A.I. can interpret the results

JTC (Could go either way) says

New products like Qlik Sense and Qlik View automatically generate reports analysts typically do in seconds. (not in hours or days)

The machine learning algorithms already can identify data insights and generate data visualizations based on the information.

Financial Analysts work will shift away from data flattening to asking questions about the data.

In the next decade, rather than the CFO asking questions for the lines of business to bring back information, they can text chat a bot to serve up in the information across the entire enterprise. This has implications on existing organizational hierarchies. I would expect a reduction in growth rate of this industry.

Uwe says

Entry level positions might be automated, because they involve a lot of data entries which any person with a solid knowledge of Python can automate. However, more advanced positions that require more social, analytical, skills that require good decision making won't be automated soon.

Duncan (Highly likely) says

It is just repetitive date entry.

Daniel says

we need to take a hand and work for our pasion

Nico (Likely) says

Many analysts focus only on data collection, analyses and reporting. This tasks can be automated

kim (Likely) says

it's just statistics and analysis.

Malek Salibi (Small chance) says

Some reporting automation bound to happen but variance analysis, complex coodination between business units and solid business acumen and knowledge still required for successful business partnership of finance in any organization.

Razvan. (Likely) says

In the company I work for, Financial Analyst positions have been already moved to other location where the salaries are lower. Also, Sales and Cash Flow are now being predicted using Artificial Intelligence

Ahmed (Could go either way) says

There are currently some computer applications that can perform portfolio analysis tasks

Ed (Small chance) says

It would take relationship skills as well as analytical skill to replace this sort of job