Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

billing clerktoaccounting assistant

A billing clerk already meets 20% of what the accounting assistant role asks for. The move turns on 16 required skills not yet in the profile.

From billing clerk
20%
Overlap1
To accounting assistant
8 Skills carried over
16 Required, not held
77.9 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

20%

Learning distance A rebuild

77.9/ 100

1 Share of the accounting assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the billing clerk profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A accounting assistant role treats 4 of its required skills as things a billing clerk already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • allocate bills
  • follow up accounts receivables
  • maintain financial records
  • use office systems

What stands in the way is 16 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 8 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A accounting assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a billing clerk background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held follow up accounts receivables information skills
  • already held allocate bills management skills
  • already held prepare financial statements information skills
  • already held use office systems management skills
  • already held manage accounts management skills
  • already held interpret financial statements information skills

All 8 carried skills, including the 4 the accounting assistant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 32 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 business, administration and law 6 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held accounting department processes required
  • required, not held depreciation required
  • required, not held accounting entries required
  • required, not held accounting techniques required
  • required, not held bookkeeping regulations required
  • required, not held tax legislation required
  • optional, not held company policies optional
  • optional, not held banking activities optional
  • optional, not held consumer goods industry optional
  • optional, not held financial statements optional
  • optional, not held labour legislation optional
02 information skills 5 required, 6 supplementary
  • required, not held perform business research required
  • required, not held check accounting records required
  • required, not held identify accounting errors required
  • required, not held perform account allocation required
  • required, not held prepare trial accounting balances required
  • optional, not held calculate tax optional
  • optional, not held maintain register of shareholders optional
  • optional, not held maintain statutory books optional
  • optional, not held manage payroll reports optional
  • optional, not held manage the general ledger optional
  • optional, not held prepare tax returns forms optional
03 management skills 4 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held issue sales invoices required
  • required, not held attach accounting certificates to accounting transactions required
  • required, not held manage corporate bank accounts required
  • required, not held use accounting systems required
  • optional, not held manage cash desk optional
  • optional, not held perform cost accounting activities optional
04 assisting and caring 1 required
  • required, not held follow the statutory obligations required
05 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held disseminate information on tax legislation optional
  • optional, not held perform dunning activities optional
06 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held statistics optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a accounting assistant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 8 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held allocate bills skill
  • already held follow up accounts receivables skill
  • already held maintain financial records skill
  • already held use office systems skill
  • already held handle financial transactions skill
  • already held interpret financial statements skill
  • already held manage accounts skill
  • already held prepare financial statements skill
16 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held company policies optional
  • optional, not held manage cash desk optional
  • optional, not held banking activities optional
  • optional, not held calculate tax optional
  • optional, not held consumer goods industry optional
  • optional, not held disseminate information on tax legislation optional
  • optional, not held financial statements optional
  • optional, not held labour legislation optional
  • optional, not held maintain register of shareholders optional
  • optional, not held maintain statutory books optional
  • optional, not held manage payroll reports optional
  • optional, not held manage the general ledger optional
  • optional, not held perform cost accounting activities optional
  • optional, not held perform dunning activities optional
  • optional, not held prepare tax returns forms optional
  • optional, not held statistics optional
16 held skills the accounting assistant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role assess debtor's financial situation skill
  • not needed by the target role communicate by telephone skill
  • not needed by the target role communicate with customers skill
  • not needed by the target role count money skill
  • not needed by the target role create a financial report skill
  • not needed by the target role file documents skill
  • not needed by the target role fill out forms skill
  • not needed by the target role financial capability knowledge
  • not needed by the target role financial department processes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role handle petty cash skill
  • not needed by the target role interview bank loanees skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain credit history of clients skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain customer records skill
  • not needed by the target role organise business documents skill
  • not needed by the target role process payments skill
  • not needed by the target role use spreadsheets software skill
12 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held accounting department processes required
  • required, not held depreciation required
  • required, not held accounting entries required
  • required, not held accounting techniques required
  • required, not held bookkeeping regulations required
  • required, not held tax legislation required
  • optional, not held company policies optional
  • optional, not held banking activities optional
  • optional, not held consumer goods industry optional
  • optional, not held financial statements optional
  • optional, not held labour legislation optional
  • optional, not held statistics optional
Index

Other moves recorded from billing clerk

Full index of moves from billing clerk

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.