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, 27% of Senior Accountant job descriptions contained senior accountant as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

senior accountant
27%
vat
27%
xero
22%
management accounts
22%
practice accountant
22%
accountant
22%
acca
16%
tax
16%
statutory accounts
16%
accounts semi senior
16%
accountancy
11%
aca
11%
accounts senior
11%
management accounting
11%
bookkeeping
11%
financial services
11%
cima
11%
accounting
11%
driver
6%
vat returns
6%
sme
6%
sage
6%
corporation tax
6%
accounts preparation
6%
aat
6%
accountancy practice
6%
finance
6%
banking
6%
accounts
6%
forecasting
6%
budgets
6%
client accounting
6%
jobs
6%
financial reporting
6%
accounts supervisor
6%
reconciliation
6%
analysis
6%
budget setting
6%
financial planning
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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