Writing a accountant resume

Everything below is counted from 1,824 live accountantpostings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 1,824
Employers: 964
Remote: 13%
Typical pay: $64k–120k
Verified live (7d): 1,720

What they ask for

Counted across 1,347 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Microsoft Excel68%
GAAP50%
CPA46%
Enterprise Resource Planning35%
SAP23%
Oracle NetSuite14%
IFRS13%
Intuit QuickBooks7%
Microsoft PowerPoint6%
SOX5%
Microsoft Outlook5%
LinkedIn4%
Microsoft Power BI4%
Oracle Hyperion4%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

Jobs for Humanity54
IQ-EQ52
BDO41
Ghj17
Pavago14
Molson Coors Canada Inc.13
SMEC Philippines Inc.12
Global Payment Holding Company11
e-Careers Limited11
The Bonadio Group10
PPD Argentina, S.A.9
Ocorian9

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