Careers with an Accounting and Finance degree
Accounting and Finance skills are in high demand. Learn more about how you could use your love of numbers to work in a wide range of roles.
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What can you do with an Accounting and Finance degree?
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Career options with an Accounting and Finance degree
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Who employs Accounting and Finance graduates?
When studying for an Accounting and Finance degree, you鈥檒l learn all about information analysis and how to manage organisations' monetary funds. Most degrees have a big practical component giving you plenty of opportunities to apply your numerical and quantitative skills to real-life problems and situations. As a result, you鈥檒l be sought after by a wide range of employers in both the public and private sectors and not just in the finance department.
Many graduates go into roles that require further finance training and will take some sort of postgraduate course for career progression.
Accounting and Finance graduates have the option to go into many different careers like:
- Auditor
- Chartered accountant
- Company secretary
- Credit controller
- Finance manager
- Forensic accountant
- Stockbroker
- Tax advisor
Other potential opportunities include:
- Business development manager
- Economist
- Investment banker
- Management consultant
- Mortgage advisor
- Procurement manager
- Retail banker
Who employs Accounting and Finance graduates?
Many different employers will be looking for graduates with accounting and finance skills including:
- Accountancy firms
- Banks 鈥� high street and investment
- Building societies
- Insurance companies
- Local government departments
Specific examples include:
- Bank of Ireland
- NHS
- Tesco
- Grant Thornton International
- KPMG International
- Barnes Roffe
Typical employers include think tanks, universities and schools if you go into research or teaching.
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