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Assess risks to business operations

AI can do the arithmetic, build the spreadsheet formula and suggest what to look at. Deciding what the numbers mean for your situation is still you.

Part of Analyze business or financial risks, under the O*NET work activity group Analyzing Data or Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (4 AI-ready, 10 AI-assist, 0 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Evaluate possibility of losses due to catastrophe or excessive insurance.AI-assist Insurance Underwriters
• Assess the nature and level of physical security threats so that the scope of the problem can be determined.AI-assist Security Management Specialists
• Evaluate business operations to identify risk areas for fraud.AI-assist Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts
• Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.AI-assist Business Continuity Planners
• Perform risk analyses so that appropriate countermeasures can be developed.AI-assist Security Management Specialists
• Analyze areas of potential risk to the assets, earning capacity, or success of organizations.AI-assist Financial Risk Specialists
• Conduct statistical analyses to quantify risk, using statistical analysis software or econometric models.AI-assist Financial Risk Specialists
• Devise scenario analyses reflecting possible severe market events.AI-assist Financial Risk Specialists
• Identify key risks and mitigating factors of potential investments, such as asset types and values, legal and ownership structures, professional reputations, customer bases, or industry segments.AI-assist Financial Risk Specialists
• Assess risk levels associated with collective bargaining strategies.AI-assist Labor Relations Specialists

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Analyze credit data and financial statements to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money.AI-ready Credit Analysts
• Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.AI-ready Business Continuity Planners
• Interpret data on price, yield, stability, future investment-risk trends, economic influences, and other factors affecting investment programs.AI-ready Financial Risk Specialists
• Interpret data on price, yield, stability, future investment-risk trends, economic influences, and other factors affecting investment programs.AI-ready Financial and Investment Analysts