Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a billing clerk can go next

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

Billing clerks create credit memos, invoices and monthly customer statements and issue them to customers by all necessary means. They update customer files accordingly.

Also known as accounting officer, accounts receivables clerk, posting clerk, financial administration clerk, financial clerk, accounts payable officer, account receivable clerk, invoice clerk.

Clerical support workers 24 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: file clerk, 22%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
file clerk 22% covered secretary 22% covered bank teller 22% covered office clerk 21% covered accounting assistant 20% covered billing clerk You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from billing clerk, 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 a billing clerk already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A billing clerk needs 12 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
  • follow up accounts receivables information skills
  • allocate bills management skills
  • maintain credit history of clients information skills
  • file documents information skills
  • fill out forms information skills
  • organise business documents management skills
  • financial department processes business, administration and law
  • maintain customer records information skills
  • use office systems management skills
  • financial capability business, administration and law
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a billing clerk does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Billing clerk is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. 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 a billing clerk’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.