Where a tax advisor can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a tax advisor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Tax advisors use their expertise in tax legislation to provide commercially-focused advisory and consultancy services to a wide range of clients from all economic sectors. They explain complicated tax-related legislation to their clients and assist them in ensuring the most efficient and beneficial payment of taxes by devising tax-efficient strategies. They also inform them of fiscal changes and developments and may specialise in tax strategies concerning mergers or multinational reconstruction for business clients, trust and estate taxes for individual clients etc.
Also known as fiscal advisor, tax specialist, tax expert, tax evaluator, tax preparer, tax adviser, tax consultant, tax advisors, chartered tax adviser, corporate tax preparer, tax examiner, licensed tax consultant.
Professionals 42 skills on file 12 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: tax clerk, 52%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- tax compliance officer 41% covered · difficulty 57.5
- legal consultant 30% covered · difficulty 65.3
- audit supervisor 30% covered · difficulty 68
- financial fraud examiner 30% covered · difficulty 63.6
- accountant 28% covered · difficulty 75.8
- financial auditor 27% covered · difficulty 76.1
- tax policy analyst 27% covered · difficulty 70.6
- legal service manager 26% covered · difficulty 73.1
- bookkeeper 22% covered · difficulty 74.9
- accounting manager 21% covered · difficulty 82.6
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A tax advisor needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- sign income tax returns information skills
- inform on fiscal duties communication, collaboration and creativity
- inspect tax returns assisting and caring
- inspect taxation documents assisting and caring
- secure sensitive customer's information assisting and caring
- research taxation procedures information skills
- value-added tax law business, administration and law
- advise on tax policy communication, collaboration and creativity
- prepare tax returns forms information skills
- calculate tax information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a tax advisor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Tax advisor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a tax advisor’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.