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

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Accountant Skills List in Financial Services

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Accountant role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Accountant job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 84% of Accountant job descriptions contained finance as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

finance
84%
accountancy
59%
acca
50%
accounts
42%
cima
42%
management accountant
34%
accountant
34%
tax
25%
aat
17%
senior auditor
17%
semi-senior
17%
external
17%
audits
17%
auditor
17%
aca
17%
accounting
17%
financial analyst
17%
payments
17%
temporary job
9%
bolton
9%
chartered accountants
9%
chester
9%
compliance
9%
exeter
9%
exmouth
9%
liverpool
9%
manchester
9%
north west
9%
paignton
9%
qbe
9%
west london
9%
home working
9%
taunton
9%
torquay
9%
tiverton
9%
ma
9%
london
9%
immediate start
9%
working from home
9%
assistant management accountant
9%
contract
9%
hybrid working
9%
flexible working
9%
north
9%
audit
9%
chelsea
9%
financial
9%
islington
9%
kensington
9%
management
9%
revenue
9%
soho
9%
xero
9%
finance business partner
9%
practice accountant
9%
leeds
9%
accounts senior
9%
rotherham
9%
sheffield
9%
financial accountant
9%
invoices
9%
qualified finance
9%
year end
9%
banking
9%
commercial analyst
9%
financial planning and analysis
9%
python
9%
sas
9%
sql
9%
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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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