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Graduate School of Business Department of Accounting & Finance
Where graduates go

A degree designed around where you’ll work next.

The MSc equips graduates with a hybrid skillset — financial expertise fused with data analytics — increasingly demanded across audit, banking, regulation, and corporate finance functions undergoing digital transformation.

01. Employability outcomes

Numbers we measure ourselves against.

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97%
UoM postgrad employment
Among the highest absorption rates in the Greek higher-education labour market.
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~90%
FAMS placement within one year
Recent graduate-survey data from the CUT FAMS Department — strong alignment with labour-market needs.
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Professional accreditations
Routes to ACCA, ICAEW, IESOEL, CIMA, IIC and IIA designations upon graduation.
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Big 4
Audit destinations
Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG — in audit, advisory and risk-assurance tracks.
02. Career pathways

Four families of destinations.

Graduates pursue roles wherever financial expertise and data-analytics capability have become inseparable.

i.
Financial services
Private & commercial banking · investment banks · insurance · asset management · FinTech (payments, digital banking, blockchain) · hedge funds and real-estate investment trusts.
ii.
Public sector & institutions
Central banks · regulatory and supervisory authorities · ministries of finance · international organisations · tax administration · policy-making roles.
iii.
Professional services
Audit firms (Big Four and beyond) · consulting · tax advisory · risk advisory and assurance practices.
iv.
Industries
Corporate finance in manufacturing & industrial firms · energy & utilities · retail · shipping and maritime finance · any organisation requiring budgeting, reporting and analytics.
v.
Research & academia
Continuation into a PhD in Accounting and Finance (no tuition fees) · research-adjacent roles in central banks, policy institutes and think tanks.
vi.
Entrepreneurship
Founding or joining FinTech ventures and advisory boutiques — where evidence-based decision-making and reporting integrity are competitive advantages.
03. Roles · job titles

A graduate can become any of these.

Data analytics and statistical learning embedded throughout the curriculum open specialised roles alongside the classical accounting and finance trajectories.

01 Financial Analyst 02 Data Analyst · Finance 03 Internal Auditor 04 External Auditor 05 Risk Analyst 06 Management Accountant 07 Fraud Analyst 08 Financial Data Scientist 01 Financial Analyst 02 Data Analyst · Finance 03 Internal Auditor 04 External Auditor 05 Risk Analyst 06 Management Accountant 07 Fraud Analyst 08 Financial Data Scientist
09 Business Intelligence Analyst 10 Performance Analyst 11 Tax Consultant 12 Investment Plan Evaluator 13 Treasury Officer 14 Equity / Credit Analyst 15 Regulator · Supervisor 09 Business Intelligence Analyst 10 Performance Analyst 11 Tax Consultant 12 Investment Plan Evaluator 13 Treasury Officer 14 Equity / Credit Analyst 15 Regulator · Supervisor

15 signature roles, and many more adjacent

04. Why this skillset

A hybrid skillset for a hybrid profession.

i. Reporting & digital transformation

As financial reporting, auditing and accounting become more data-intensive and technology-driven, graduates are prepared to lead the finance functions of organisations in the middle of a digital rebuild.

ii. Audit & assurance

The growing use of data-driven audit techniques creates demand for professionals capable of leveraging analytics to enhance audit quality and surface anomalies that classical sampling misses.

iii. Tax & advisory

The ability to process and analyse complex financial data supports informed, defensible advisory — from transfer pricing to transaction support.

iv. Public & institutional roles

Significant opportunities in the public domain — central banks, supervisory authorities, ministries of finance, international organisations — where the same hybrid skillset is decisive.

From cohort to career

See how the curriculum builds the skillset.

Every module is mapped to one or more destinations above. Browse the twelve modules and the dissertation pathway, or read about the professional accreditations the programme unlocks.