2.4 KiB
2.4 KiB
Competences — financial controller
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5e5b1b61-1351-4d3b-a293-deb3661715dd).
Essential
- accounting department processes (knowledge)
- analyse financial performance of a company (skill/competence)
- create a financial plan (skill/competence)
- develop financial statistics reports (skill/competence)
- enforce financial policies (skill/competence)
- ensure compliance with accounting conventions (skill/competence)
- evaluate budgets (skill/competence)
- exert expenditure control (skill/competence)
- explain accounting records (skill/competence)
- financial department processes (knowledge)
- financial statements (knowledge)
- follow the statutory obligations (skill/competence)
- interpret financial statements (skill/competence)
- prepare financial statements (skill/competence)
- synthesise financial information (skill/competence)
- tax legislation (knowledge)
- track key performance indicators (skill/competence)
Optional
- advise on financial matters (skill/competence)
- advise on tax planning (skill/competence)
- analyse financial risk (skill/competence)
- check accounting records (skill/competence)
- disseminate information on tax legislation (skill/competence)
- draft accounting procedures (skill/competence)
- financial forecasting (knowledge)
- insolvency law (knowledge)
- inspect government expenditures (skill/competence)
- liaise with auditors (skill/competence)
- liaise with financiers (skill/competence)
- liaise with shareholders (skill/competence)
- manage budgets (skill/competence)
- manage profitability (skill/competence)
- manage the general ledger (skill/competence)
- prepare financial auditing reports (skill/competence)
- prepare tax returns forms (skill/competence)
- statistics (knowledge)
- supervise accounting operations (skill/competence)
- support development of annual budget (skill/competence)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 38 ads, as of 2026-07-11)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- financial reporting — 55 %
- budgeting — 45 %
- forecasting — 42 %
- internal controls — 26 %
- financial statement preparation — 21 %
- data analysis — 18 %
- financial analysis — 18 %