Financial Investment Adviser (ANZSCO 222311)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Financial Investment Adviser on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Financial Investment Adviser comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Financial Investment Adviser under Group B, against a highly relevant field list that includes Finance, Business, Commerce, Accounting and Economics. Its own occupation description centres on developing financial plans and giving personal advice on investment strategies to individuals and organisations. This is the one occupation in the whole family whose VETASSESS page carries a dedicated Licensing and Registration section, sourced by VETASSESS to the Financial Advice Association Australia, on top of the standard migration-only disclaimer every occupation page carries.

Where these applications come unstuck

The confusable-code risk sits with Financial Investment Manager, its direct sibling: the two occupations exclude each other by ANZSCO code on their own pages, and the practical test is whether the work is personal advice to an individual client (Adviser) or managing pooled funds without giving advice directly to clients (Manager). Getting this wrong risks both a task-mismatch finding and, separately, operating retail-client advice work without the Financial Adviser Register registration ASIC requires for it.

An honest read on this pathway

Financial Investment Adviser sits on STSOL and CSOL and reaches 482 and 186, unlike Financial Investment Manager, which does not. Providing retail advice also requires Financial Adviser Register registration, generally including a professional year unless the existing-provider exemption applies — a separate individual licensing track the skills assessment itself does not clear, and which does not apply to Manager in the same form.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

We've also written a full pathway guide for this occupation: read the Financial Investment Adviser pathway guide.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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