Qualification and Experiences for Corporate Accountants

Running head: QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCES THAT EMPLOYERS SEEK FROM
CORPORATE ACCOUNTANTS
Qualification and experiences that employers seek from corporate accountants
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QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCES THAT EMPLOYERS SEEK FROM
CORPORATE ACCOUNTANTS
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Executive Summary
The report aimed to provide a clear understanding of what experience and qualifications a
candidate may possess to become a corporate accountant. In general, the report helped
the candidates to understand the recruiters view on recruiting for the position of different
corporate accountant oriented jobs. Hence, to study the objective, a theoretical analysis
was done by collecting data from the thirty-job advertisement. These job advertisements
were gathered from Indeed and Seek job sites in Australia. These jobs were selected
based on the position like a tax accountant, financial accountant, senior financial
accountant and senior corporate reporting accountant. The paper discussed various
personal characteristics a corporate accountant possess after analyzing those jobs. The
paper concluded that academic, as well as professional qualifications, are also needed to
gain a post as a corporate accountant.

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CORPORATE ACCOUNTANTS
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Table of Contents
Introduction:...........................................................................................................................2
Discussion:............................................................................................................................2
Answer to question 1:............................................................................................................2
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Introduction:
The report focusses on a brief understanding of how a corporate accountant helps
an employer to gain knowledge on qualification as well as experiences. Earlier the
employees used to seek job opportunities by visiting every single office. Hence, this
helped them in analyzing suitable career for themselves. Nowadays, this process is done
by online job sites. After the introduction of job searches online, the employees are,
therefore searching for suitable jobs in online job sites. In Australia, there are many online
portals regarding jobs, which provide job prospects in public or government based jobs as
well as in private companies. In order to name a few online job portals that offer jobs to
the employees in Australia are Jora, Seek and Indeed job portals. The job portals are
designed in such a way that they provide many relevant jobs, which offer jobs to the
employees, according to their requirements.
Accounting related job openings are also found in these online job sites. To name a
few positions, the employees are offered through online job portals are senior accountant,
corporate financial accountant, corporate and management accountant, corporate
accountant, corporate finance and management accountant, tax accountant, senior
financial accountant, a senior accountant in the field of corporate and tax reporting. The
jobs sites online like Indeed, Seek and Jora provide opportunities to select job positions
according to their choice as well as per their experience. Even the recruiters get the
chance in connecting with the job seekers as per their requirement (Lepistö and Ihantola
2018). Hence, online job portals provide beneficial in both cases.
If an individual wants to take up corporate accounting as their occupation, then they
need to have a minimum qualification of a bachelor's degree in accounting or else in
finance. Few of the employers willing to work under this position need to have an
additional diploma in a certified course in Public Accountant. While, those individuals who
want to work under the position of a tax accountant, they have to have an in-depth
understanding of different types of tax as well as tax structures (Osisioma 2013). They
should at least have a bachelor’s degree in the field of accounting. The individuals who
have a minimum bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance can opt for the position of
accounting corporate finance. These individuals should also have experience in their job
in the field of finance as well as accounting.
This report aims to provide a detailed knowledge about how corporate accountant
helps employers to develop an understanding related to their experience and qualification.
The analysis will be based on the collected information that is relevant to various job
advertisements. The employers generally post these advertisements on the job portals. To
study the report, the data from July 22, 2019, regarding the mentioned positions of
corporate jobs have been collected. These kinds of jobs are opted mainly by individuals
who pursued post-graduation as well as graduation in commerce field from the online job
portals.
Discussion:
Answer to question 1:
The advertisement related to the job is mainly done for the position in the field of a
tax accountant, corporate accountant, corporate accounting finance and corporate finance
accountant. These job advertisements are sourced from Indeed as well as Seek (SEEK,
2019). From the two mentioned sources, 30 job advertisements were gathered, in order to
analyze the job advertisements. These jobs were mainly for the position of corporate
accountants’. While, 15 other job advertisement related to the position of a senior tax