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, 71% of Accountant job descriptions contained finance as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

finance
71%
accountancy
53%
acca
48%
accounts
30%
cima
30%
tax
30%
management accountant
24%
aat
24%
accountant
24%
exmouth
18%
torquay
18%
tiverton
18%
taunton
18%
qbe
18%
paignton
18%
exeter
18%
compliance
18%
chartered accountants
18%
accounts senior
18%
auditor
12%
senior auditor
12%
semi-senior
12%
external
12%
audits
12%
aca
12%
payments
12%
accounting
12%
xero
12%
financial analyst
12%
manchester
6%
management accounts
6%
north west
6%
financial services
6%
financial forecasting
6%
corporate tax
6%
working from home
6%
west london
6%
temporary job
6%
ma
6%
london
6%
assistant management accountant
6%
immediate start
6%
hybrid working
6%
contract
6%
flexible working
6%
home working
6%
sheffield
6%
audit
6%
chelsea
6%
financial
6%
islington
6%
kensington
6%
management
6%
revenue
6%
soho
6%
finance business partner
6%
practice accountant
6%
leeds
6%
north
6%
rotherham
6%
liverpool
6%
financial accountant
6%
invoices
6%
qualified finance
6%
year end
6%
banking
6%
commercial analyst
6%
financial planning and analysis
6%
python
6%
sas
6%
sql
6%
bolton
6%
chester
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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