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, 34% of Finance job descriptions contained finance as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

finance
34%
acca
23%
accounts
23%
aat
17%
finance administration
17%
finance manager
17%
tax
17%
purchase ledger
12%
wealth management
12%
finance analyst
12%
financial services
12%
payroll
12%
management accounts
12%
accounting software
12%
finance administrator
12%
budgeting
12%
accounts manager
12%
investing
12%
financial analysis
12%
financial manager
12%
budget
12%
financial accounting
12%
cima
12%
financial planning
12%
data. reporting
6%
ledgers
6%
it literate
6%
excel
6%
prepayments
6%
business analyst
6%
analytical
6%
accruals
6%
maths
6%
graduate
6%
accounting
6%
family office
6%
sales
6%
customer service
6%
trusts
6%
taxation
6%
reporting systems
6%
real estate
6%
oversight
6%
fiduciary
6%
month end
6%
mortgages
6%
mortgage broker
6%
finance broker
6%
development finance
6%
qbe
6%
invoicing
6%
ms office
6%
cash flow
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%
senior group accounts supervisor
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%
financial controller
6%

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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