Writing a accountant resume

Everything below is counted from 2,200 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: 2,200
Employers: 1,100
Remote: 11%
Typical pay: $62k–120k
Verified live (7d): 1,987

What they ask for

Counted across 1,354 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 Excel63%
GAAP46%
CPA44%
Enterprise Resource Planning35%
SAP23%
IFRS13%
Oracle NetSuite12%
Workday9%
LinkedIn8%
Intuit QuickBooks7%
Microsoft PowerPoint6%
SOX5%
Microsoft Outlook5%
Microsoft Power BI3%

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-EQ50
BDO43
Ghj17
Pavago17
Global Payment Holding Company16
Molson Coors Canada Inc.13
SMEC Philippines Inc.13
Kellogg Brown & Root (U.K.) Limited13
PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores Independentes Ltda.12
Brown & Brown, Inc11
PPD Argentina, S.A.11

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