Finance Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Financial Services

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Finance Skills List in Financial Services

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Finance role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Finance job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 48% of Finance job descriptions contained finance as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

finance
48%
accounts
22%
finance administration
16%
aat
16%
acca
16%
tax
16%
invoicing
11%
accounts manager
11%
budget
11%
budgeting
11%
cima
11%
finance manager
11%
financial accounting
11%
financial analysis
11%
financial manager
11%
financial planning
11%
investing
11%
finance administrator
11%
accounting software
11%
management accounts
11%
payroll
11%
purchase ledger
11%
financial services
11%
business development
6%
business sales
6%
finance advisor
6%
finance consultant
6%
financial advisor
6%
financial consultant
6%
sales
6%
sales finance
6%
sales opportunities
6%
telesales
6%
accounts payable
6%
accounts receivable
6%
communicator
6%
contractors
6%
crm
6%
english
6%
payments
6%
spreadsheet
6%
construction
6%
finance director
6%
finance jobs
6%
housing
6%
property
6%
accounting graduate
6%
advisor
6%
trainee accounts assistant
6%
business central
6%
data migration
6%
erp
6%
erp implementations
6%
erp software
6%
ms dynamics
6%
project management
6%
stakeholder engagement
6%
account assistant
6%
accounts administrator
6%
finance admin
6%
finance assistant
6%
financial administrator
6%
payroll administrator
6%
administration
6%
cash flow
6%
data entry
6%
debt
6%
finance team
6%
financial reporting
6%
microsoft office
6%
purchase orders
6%
reconciliation
6%
resilience
6%
sage
6%
sales ledger
6%
software
6%
accounts management
6%
xero
6%
accounting
6%
graduate
6%
maths
6%
financial controller
6%
senior group accounts supervisor
6%
family office
6%
fiduciary
6%
oversight
6%
real estate
6%
reporting systems
6%
taxation
6%
trusts
6%
wealth management
6%
accruals
6%
analytical
6%
business analyst
6%
excel
6%
it literate
6%
month end
6%
ms office
6%
prepayments
6%
qbe
6%
data. reporting
6%
finance analyst
6%
ledgers
6%
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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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