Finance Permissions

In order for a user to be able to access any of the Finance features they must be given permission in their role to one or more of the following:

Access finance area

This grants access to the user's own Financial information in the Finance Section of their Profile page.

Manage Finance Transactions

This used to be called 'Finance administration' and is designed for those people who work with the transactions directly e.g. adding manual transactions, reconciling them and recurring donations. A user with this role will only be able to see and report on the other information screens, such as Account codes, Stock codes, etc.
This allows you to have people who manage transactions without making changes to the core settings.

Limit finance admin to just user's own groups

This is a Restrictive permission that will reduce the number of batches, account codes, etc. that this user can see and access.

Edit giving numbers for people

This Permission grants access to the Giving Numbers section under Finance and allows the user to manage and edit Giving Numbers. This also Requires the "Manage Finance Transactions" permission.

View others on profile and reports only

This can be used to give visibility of financial information on a Profile for people in a Group, where the User is an Administrator of that group, even if no other financial permissions are required. Grants access to the Financial Criteria on Reports for Campaign Type.

Manage Finance Configurations

This allows the user with this role to add, edit, delete account codes, memberships, set up Xero schedules etc. This also Requires the "Manage Finance Transactions" permission.
This means you can have an overseeing administrator able to set up the financial options.