Analysis and identification of general and specialized competencies of financial expert (with development approach) (Case Study: Day Bank)

Financial experts have a key role in the informed decision-making of managers in the strategic plans of banks, therefore, the performance of this group of experts is particularly sensitive. With this in mind, this article identifies the competencies of financial experts in the field of banking. According to the nature and purpose of this research, its approach is qualitative and has been done with the method of Grounded Theory and Charms structuralist design. The statistical population of the research includes all financial experts working in the financial department of Bank Day Total: liquidity management and management accounting). Research tools include semi-structured interviews, notebooks and tape recorders. The data of this study are the result of interviews with 30 financial experts who were selected by snowball sampling method (sampling was continued until the theoretical saturation stage in the collected information). The text of the interviews, which included 33 hours of individual interviews with the research sample, Implemented and analyzed by theme analysis method. A total of 79 competencies were identified as required competencies for Bank Day financial experts in the form of 12 sub-categories and 4 main categories with individual, interpersonal, basic and general knowledge titles. Job, technical and key job knowledge and finally in two dimensions of specialized and general competencies were determined and defined.