sales support assistanttoaccounting assistant
A sales support assistant already meets 16% of what the accounting assistant role asks for. The move turns on 16 required skills not yet in the profile.
16%
80.4/ 100
1 Share of the accounting assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the sales support assistant 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 this move works
A accounting assistant role treats 4 of its required skills as things a sales support assistant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- bookkeeping regulations
- check accounting records
- issue sales invoices
- perform business research
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 · What you already bring
Of the 5 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 sales support assistant background worth leading with.
- already held check accounting records information skills
- already held perform business research information skills
- already held bookkeeping regulations business, administration and law
- already held manage accounts management skills
- already held issue sales invoices management skills
All 5 carried skills, including the 4 the accounting assistant role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 35 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.
- required, not held follow up accounts receivables required
- required, not held identify accounting errors required
- required, not held maintain financial records 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 interpret financial statements 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 financial statements optional
- optional, not held prepare tax returns forms optional
- 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 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
- required, not held allocate bills 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
- required, not held use office systems required
- optional, not held manage cash desk optional
- optional, not held handle financial transactions optional
- optional, not held perform cost accounting activities optional
- required, not held follow the statutory obligations required
- optional, not held disseminate information on tax legislation optional
- optional, not held perform dunning activities optional
- optional, not held statistics optional
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.
- 01 accounting department processes knowledge · sector specific
- 02 depreciation knowledge · sector specific
- 03 accounting entries knowledge · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 5 skills that carry over
- already held bookkeeping regulations knowledge
- already held check accounting records skill
- already held issue sales invoices skill
- already held perform business research skill
- already held manage accounts skill
19 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- 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 handle financial transactions optional
- optional, not held interpret 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 financial statements optional
- optional, not held prepare tax returns forms optional
- optional, not held statistics optional
18 held skills the accounting assistant role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role analyse customer service surveys skill
- not needed by the target role carry out sales analysis skill
- not needed by the target role customer service knowledge
- not needed by the target role draw up marketing and sales plan skill
- not needed by the target role electronic business knowledge
- not needed by the target role forecast sales over periods of time skill
- not needed by the target role handle mail skill
- not needed by the target role implement sales strategies skill
- not needed by the target role keep records on sales skill
- not needed by the target role order supplies skill
- not needed by the target role perform clerical duties skill
- not needed by the target role perform office routine activities skill
- not needed by the target role prepare sales checks skill
- not needed by the target role process refunds skill
- not needed by the target role produce sales reports skill
- not needed by the target role sales activities knowledge
- not needed by the target role supervise sales activities skill
- not needed by the target role use sales forecasting softwares skill
11 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- 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 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
Other moves recorded from sales support assistant
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.