- Based on 237 Jobtrees users who were an Accountant in their career, on average, they have 3.00 years of experience and 2 jobs prior to this one. They spend 3.8 years on average in this job building experience and earn $61K per year before moving on.
- 15% of Jobtrees users moved to another job with this same title in their next career step. The most common career steps after Accountant are Staff Accountant, Senior Accountant and Accounting Manager. While Staff Accountant is from the same job family, Accounting, there are other common opportunities outside this discipline that Jobtrees users are taking as shown by Senior Accountant, also being a common career path from Accountant.
- If you are looking for more ideas on potential career paths from this job, you should also consider Accounts Payable Clerk, Business Owner and Tax Preparer as they commonly lead to Accountant as well. Find more insights below about this specific career path based on our Jobtrees users' experience.
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- The most common career steps to get to Accountant are Senior Accountant, Staff Accountant and Accounting Manager based on actual career paths reported to Jobtrees.
- Senior Accountant, the most common step before Accountant, is a more senior role which is common to see in career paths. This is a natural and common career progression as titles aren't synonymous across companies so a more senior title doesn't always mean higher pay and larger scope. For Accountant, this is an indication that you should focus more on the scope of the role than the specific title when thinking about building a path to Accountant.
- While Senior Accountant is the most common, there is no specific role leading to Accountant that is an overwhelmingly common path.
- This shows there are many potential paths to becoming an Accountant so focusing on translatable skills is likely more important than a specific role.
- All of the most common roles leading to Accountant are from the job family, Accounting, which shows that in order to get this role you also likely need to have experience in this field first.
- If you are looking for more potential career paths to Accountant, you should also consider Clerk, Assistant Manager and Accounting Intern as they commonly lead to Accountant as well.
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- The most common degrees or certifications earned by Jobtrees users on the path to become Accountant are Bachelor Degree In Accounting, Bachelor Of Science (b.sc.) In Accounting, and Bachelor Of Business Administration (b.b.a.) In Accounting. There may be other specific certification requirements to land a job with this role, so please make sure to check local regulations as well.
- Career paths aren't linear with people often returning to a prior role which is what you see with Senior Accountant being on the path to and from Accountant. This is common when people move companies where the title is the same as a past one but the scope may be different but also is commonly driven by them choosing to return to a function they fit well with.
- Accountant is part of the Accounting job family which has a limited number of unique role types (37) within that discipline. Choosing to pursue a role within this family likely will mean that you will need to look outside of your discipline to find new roles and so should focus on related skills as part of that search.
- Other common titles that have similar job requirements and career paths as Accountant are Assistant Accountant, Fund Accountant, Gl Accountant, Junior Accountant.