Writing a accountant resume

Everything below is counted from 850 live accountant postings, 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: 850
Employers: 486
Remote: 12%
Typical pay: $65k–122k
Verified live (7d): 757

What they ask for

Counted across 756 of the most recent 850 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Microsoft Excel67%
CPA44%
GAAP43%
Enterprise Resource Planning32%
SAP22%
IFRS16%
Oracle NetSuite14%
Intuit QuickBooks11%
Microsoft Outlook6%
Microsoft PowerPoint5%
LinkedIn5%
SOX5%
Oracle Hyperion4%
Microsoft Dynamics4%

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 Humanity53
BDO18
Ghj15
SMEC Philippines Inc.11
Sleek8
PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores Independentes Ltda.8
IQ-EQ7
axos.wd5.Axos7
Pavago7
Global Payment Holding Company7
The Bonadio Group7
CO_AFSCLLC Apex Fund Services (Charlotte) LLC6

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