Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an accounting analyst can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an accounting analyst already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Accounting analysts evaluate the financial statements of clients, usually companies, which include the income sheet, the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows and additional notes to other financial statements. They interpret and implement new accounting systems and accounting procedures and will analyse and determine if the proposed systems conform to accounting regulations and meet user information requirements.

Also known as accounting systems analyst, accounts analyst, accounting specialist, accounting methods analyst.

Professionals 39 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: financial controller, 50%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
financial controller 50% covered corporate treasurer 48% covered accounting manager 48% covered accountant 43% covered cost analyst 39% covered accounting analyst You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from accounting analyst, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an accounting analyst already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An accounting analyst needs 18 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • draft accounting procedures communication, collaboration and creativity
  • supervise accounting operations management skills
  • explain accounting records management skills
  • accounting entries business, administration and law
  • national generally accepted accounting principles business, administration and law
  • check accounting records information skills
  • international financial reporting standards business, administration and law
  • monitor financial accounts information skills
  • accounting department processes business, administration and law
  • financial department processes business, administration and law
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an accounting analyst does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Accounting analyst is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an accounting analyst’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.