Accountancy Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Accountancy

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Accountancy Skills List in Accountancy

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Accountancy role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Accountancy job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 39% of Accountancy job descriptions contained accountancy practice as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

accountancy practice
39%
accountancy
30%
accounts assistant
28%
compliance administrator
28%
accounts admin
23%
accounts administrator
23%
bookkeeping
19%
accounting
16%
audit
16%
accountancy firm
14%
accountant
12%
auditor
10%
accounts
10%
xero
10%
accounts semi senior
7%
accounts technician
7%
practice accountant
7%
tax returns
7%
management accounts
7%
quickbooks
5%
finance
5%
accounts supervisor
5%
accounts senior
5%
auditing
5%
tax associate
5%
tax assistant
5%
tax analyst
5%
teamwork
5%
semi senior accountant
5%
business development
5%
finance assistant
5%
management accountant
5%
leadership
5%
people skills
5%
team building
5%
accountants
5%
sage line
5%
statutory
3%
tax
3%
corporation tax
3%
microsoft office
3%
sales ledger
3%
self assessment tax returns
3%
accounting technician
3%
junior accountant
3%
compliance
3%
legislation
3%
microsoft excel
3%
music
3%
payments
3%
tour accounting
3%
vat
3%
sage 50
3%
sage
3%
reconciliations
3%
purchase ledger
3%
nominal ledger
3%
ledger
3%
bought ledger
3%
bookkeeper
3%
acca
3%
aca
3%
senior accountant
3%
associate director
3%
accounts manager
3%
assistant accountant
3%
accounts assistant manager
3%
qualified by experience
3%

While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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