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

civil service administrative officertopublic finance accountant

A civil service administrative officer already meets 35% of what the public finance accountant role asks for. The move turns on 8 required skills not yet in the profile.

From civil service administrative officer
35%
Overlap1
To public finance accountant
10 Skills carried over
8 Required, not held
59.4 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

35%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

59.4/ 100

1 Share of the public finance accountant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the civil service administrative officer 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 public finance accountant role treats 4 of its required skills as things a civil service administrative officer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • budgetary principles
  • inspect government expenditures
  • inspect government incomes
  • public finance

What stands in the way is 8 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 10 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A public finance accountant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a civil service administrative officer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held inspect government incomes information skills
  • already held inspect government expenditures information skills
  • already held bookkeeping regulations business, administration and law
  • already held public finance business, administration and law
  • already held manage administrative systems management skills
  • already held manage accounts management skills

All 10 carried skills, including the 4 the public finance accountant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 18 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 3 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held accounting techniques required
  • required, not held financial forecasting required
  • required, not held tax legislation required
  • optional, not held civil law optional
  • optional, not held debt classification optional
  • optional, not held debt systems optional
  • optional, not held public law optional
02 information skills 3 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held create a financial report required
  • required, not held conduct financial audits required
  • required, not held monitor financial accounts required
  • optional, not held calculate tax optional
  • optional, not held manage financial risk optional
03 management skills 2 required
  • required, not held control financial resources required
  • required, not held develop account strategy required
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held advise on public finance optional
  • optional, not held ensure cross-department cooperation optional
05 assisting and caring 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held comply with legal regulations optional
06 social sciences, journalism and information 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held public administration optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a public finance accountant 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 10 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held budgetary principles knowledge
  • already held inspect government expenditures skill
  • already held inspect government incomes skill
  • already held public finance knowledge
  • already held bookkeeping regulations knowledge
  • already held handle financial transactions skill
  • already held manage accounts skill
  • already held manage administrative systems skill
  • already held manage budgets skill
  • already held manage staff skill
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held public administration optional
  • optional, not held advise on public finance optional
  • optional, not held calculate tax optional
  • optional, not held civil law optional
  • optional, not held comply with legal regulations optional
  • optional, not held debt classification optional
  • optional, not held debt systems optional
  • optional, not held ensure cross-department cooperation optional
  • optional, not held manage financial risk optional
  • optional, not held public law optional
21 held skills the public finance accountant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role archive documentation related to work skill
  • not needed by the target role audit techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role conduct workplace audits skill
  • not needed by the target role coordinate events skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure compliance with policies skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure information transparency skill
  • not needed by the target role fix meetings skill
  • not needed by the target role keep task records skill
  • not needed by the target role legislation procedure knowledge
  • not needed by the target role liaise with local authorities skill
  • not needed by the target role liaise with politicians skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain relationships with government agencies skill
  • not needed by the target role office software knowledge
  • not needed by the target role order supplies skill
  • not needed by the target role recruit employees skill
  • not needed by the target role respond to enquiries skill
  • not needed by the target role supervise daily information operations skill
  • not needed by the target role use different communication channels skill
  • not needed by the target role use microsoft office skill
  • not needed by the target role use spreadsheets software skill
  • not needed by the target role write meeting reports skill
8 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 techniques required
  • required, not held financial forecasting required
  • required, not held tax legislation required
  • optional, not held public administration optional
  • optional, not held civil law optional
  • optional, not held debt classification optional
  • optional, not held debt systems optional
  • optional, not held public law optional
Index

Other moves recorded from civil service administrative officer

Full index of moves from civil service administrative officer

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.