Banking, Finance & Insurance

Here were about 20 active stock exchanges in India with 7000 listed companies, 6500 brokers and 538 investment bankers registered with the SEBI. As per a Mint report, dated 20 May, 2014, 15 of the 20 stock exchanges in the country have opted to exit the business altogether. The 5 that will continue are the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), United Stock Exchange (which agreed to merge with BSE), MCX Stock Exchange Ltd (MCX-SX), National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Calcutta Stock Exchange. Prospects for the stock broking business are bright and for those who are qualified to handle this business and have the necessary personality traits to cope with it, the job openings are many. As of November, 2014, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) was rated 10th globally (market value-wise) among worlds stock exchanges, as revealed by data from the World Federation of Exchanges. Close behind is India's National Stock Exchange (NSE), ranked 11th. It is a matter of time before we make it to the top 5 stock exchanges in the world, said Kalpana Morparia, chief executive of J. P. Morgan India, told Wall Street Journal on 28 November, 2014. If the market cap of Indian companies keeps growing at its recent pace, the BSE and NSE could soon overtake Germanys Deutsche Borse and Chinas Shenzhen Stock Exchange. In short, opportunities in this field are going to be aplenty!

Master of Science in Finance - Your Master in finance will train you in financial theory, mathematics, quantitative finance, investments, markets, financial reporting and analysis, and valuation. This is not a general study programme, it focuses on the detailed application of financial conventions in business. Fresh graduates of a Master in Finance with little or no work experience can potentially earn around 45,000 - 65,000 a year, depending on final grades. Earnings as a result of attaining this qualification later in your career will undoubtedly increase, but a lot depends on your particular status at the time. Due to the specialised nature and narrow focus of a Master of Finance qualification, graduates will be best suited for roles like stock traders, investment consultants, or financial risk managers.
Graduates of an M.Fin will enjoy an advantage over MBA counterparts when applying for jobs in equity research firms, asset management, advisory services, investment research, security analysis, and brokerage firms. Master of Business Administration in Finance - MBAs offer training in a broad spectrum of business subjects, including accounting, statistics, economics, communications, management and entrepreneurship.
Most providers will offer you the opportunity to tailor your MBA with specialist modules that are relevant to your industry and goals. MBA graduates often earn more on completion of their studies, and in some cases can potentially get a salary of up to 100,000. However, this depends significantly on the quality of the MBA, previous work experience, and your current job title. For example, some MBA programmes only admit C-level managers whose salaries and bonuses combined can exceed 7 figures once they qualify. Because of the all-round skills learned on MBA programmes, MBA graduates are ready for management and executive roles in almost any capacity, from banks to start-ups. Within financial institutions, an MBA graduate will find themselves with an advantage when applying for jobs in mergers and acquisitions departments or roles in corporate finance.

Let's look at the few fields to see what kind of jobs you can find to satisfy the requirements.
Front office: Actual Trading or Trading Desk support, where you help the traders make their decisions.
Middle office: Operations in big investment banks, they deal will processing of the trades after it's done, they enrich the trade and record it in Accounting Systems.
Back office: All kind of Reporting, Analytics, Risk calculations, Regulatory etc.
Research: Fundamental, Technical Research, Top to Bottom (at Country / Macro level, narrowing down to Company level) or Bottom to Top (Compare few companies and see why they are earning more than peers or if the peer group is doing better than the industry as a whole), Industry life-cycle phase or Product life-cycle phase etc. These groups do all the calculations that enable the Front-office to make the decisions.
Tech: Coding applications that enable any or all of the above
Supervising: Directly managing / supervising the team that's doing any of the above.
Teaching: If you are teaching CFA candidates
All you need to prove is that either you made portfolio management decisions or your work helped somebody else make those. Also this doesn't need to be continuous 48 months, it can be different positions with different companies over your entire career. You can also include the internship / positions that you have had while preparing for the exams.