Financial Investment Manager (ANZSCO 222312)
On the Short-term Skilled 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 Manager 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.
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).
- Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190) — Permanent, state or territory nominated · all occupations for the 190
- Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491) — Provisional, regional, points-tested · all occupations for the 491
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
- Training visa (subclass 407) — Temporary, workplace training · all occupations for the 407
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Financial Investment Manager comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
VETASSESS assesses Financial Investment Manager under the same Group B structure as Financial Investment Adviser, with an overlapping field-of-study list. Its own occupation description is that the role invests and manages sums of money and assets on behalf of others — Portfolio Manager, Superannuation Funds Manager and Unit Trust Manager are the named suitable specialisations — and its page states directly that most Financial Investment Managers do not provide financial advice directly to clients, which is the line VETASSESS draws against Adviser.
Where these applications come unstuck
The job title is the trap: 'Manager' reads as more senior than 'Adviser', but an applicant whose actual duties involve giving personal advice to individual retail clients, rather than managing pooled funds, risks a task-mismatch finding by nominating this code on title alone. The licensing consequence differs too — this code's page describes a licence sitting at the entity or investment-activity level, held by the manager or their employer, with no mention of the individual Financial Adviser Register regime Adviser's page carries.
An honest read on this pathway
Financial Investment Manager sits on STSOL only and does not reach 482 or 186 — the starkest visa-reach gap in this family, given how close the two occupations otherwise sound. The more senior-sounding title is the one that loses employer sponsorship access; Financial Investment Adviser, its direct sibling, reaches both, on the same Group B qualification bar and an overlapping set of highly relevant fields.
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.
Talk it through with a registered agent
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