Accounts Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Accountancy

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Accounts Skills List in Accountancy

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Accounts role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Accounts job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 30% of Accounts job descriptions contained processing invoices as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

processing invoices
30%
accounting
30%
ap
30%
organisational skills
20%
queries
20%
communication skills
20%
accounts payable
20%
invoice processing
20%
vat
10%
tax
10%
aat
10%
corporation tax
10%
accounts assistant
10%
written communication
10%
visitors
10%
telephone manner
10%
outlook
10%
admin
10%
microsoft excel
10%
highly numerate
10%
general accounts
10%
data entry
10%
administrative
10%
sales invoices
10%
purchasers
10%
microsoft office
10%
xero
10%
vendor
10%
sap
10%
invoicing
10%
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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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