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, 46% of Accountant job descriptions contained acca as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

acca
46%
aca
37%
cima
37%
finance
28%
management accountant
19%
qualified
19%
financial accounts
19%
management accounts
19%
accountant
19%
accounts
19%
group accounts
10%
investment accountant
10%
german speaking
10%
accounting
10%
coordinator
10%
vat
10%
financial reporting
10%
cima or acca
10%
barnsley
10%
financial controller
10%
yorkshire
10%
bradford
10%
budgeting
10%
financial
10%
financial accounting
10%
forecasting
10%
halifax
10%
huddersfield
10%
leeds
10%
management accounting
10%
manager
10%
oldham
10%
organisation
10%
stakeholder engagement
10%
wakefield
10%
accountancy
10%
working from home
10%
financial services
10%
fs
10%
home working
10%
hybrid working
10%
investments
10%
investors
10%
london
10%
part qualified
10%
permanent
10%
pq
10%
private equity
10%
temporary
10%
winchester
10%
excel
10%
reconciliation
10%
consolidation
10%
group
10%
reconcilliations
10%
fund accounting
10%
consolidations
10%
graduate
10%
graduate accountant
10%
group accounting
10%
junior
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.

Including the right keywords in your CV will help you get past Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and win more job interviews from employers and recruiters.


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