Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an accounting assistant can go next

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

Accounting assistants record and report ticketing accounting situations to the accountant they work with, verify deposits and prepare daily reports and income. They arrange authorised refund vouchers, maintain the returned check accounts and communicate with ticketing managers concerning about any issues with ticketing systems.

Also known as billing and accounting assistant, assistant accountant, junior accountant, finance assistant, accountant assistant.

Technicians and associate professionals 40 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: bookkeeper, 83%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
accountant 55% covered tax clerk 44% covered billing clerk 37% covered bookkeeper 83% covered financial controller 32% covered accounting assistant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from accounting assistant, 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 assistant 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 assistant needs 20 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
  • perform account allocation information skills
  • follow up accounts receivables information skills
  • prepare trial accounting balances information skills
  • use accounting systems management skills
  • allocate bills management skills
  • depreciation business, administration and law
  • attach accounting certificates to accounting transactions management skills
  • identify accounting errors information skills
  • accounting entries business, administration and law
  • manage corporate bank accounts management skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Accounting assistant is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an accounting assistant’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.