Senior Accountant Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Accountancy

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Senior Accountant Skills List in Accountancy

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Senior Accountant role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Senior Accountant job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 38% of Senior Accountant job descriptions contained vat as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

vat
38%
accountancy
19%
xero
19%
statutory accounts
19%
tax
19%
management accounts
19%
accounts
13%
senior accountant
13%
practice accountant
13%
accounts senior
13%
accountant
13%
management accounting
13%
financial services
13%
acca
13%
accounts semi senior
13%
bookkeeping
13%
cima
13%
accounting
13%
financial planning
7%
budget setting
7%
finance
7%
analysis
7%
accounts supervisor
7%
financial reporting
7%
reconciliation
7%
jobs
7%
client accounting
7%
budgets
7%
forecasting
7%
driver
7%
aca
7%
accountancy practice
7%
banking
7%
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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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