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Career moves · 231,145 postings · 163 markets · 2026-07-16

Where can your career go next?

Search the role you're in. We count what employers ask for across 231,145 active postings, then show you the markets one step away: how big each one is, and exactly which skills you'd need to add.

What this is and isn't

Markets sit close together when employers on both sides ask for the same skills, measured across 350 normalized skills. This is not a record of people moving between them. That would need career histories we don't have. A close market also isn't automatically a good move. Skills counted are the ones postings list explicitly, so every figure is a floor.

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Accountant

546 open jobs·399 employers

10 markets are one step away

These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Accountant. Bigger circles mean more openings; careers closer to the center require fewer new skills.

Among nearby careers, Financial Analyst has the most openings (546), while Financial Controller requires the fewest new skills.

#1 closest · Financial Controller · 104 openings · Very close#2 closest · Bookkeeper · 216 openings · Very close#3 closest · Tax Manager · 112 openings · Close#4 closest · Financial Analyst · 546 openings · Close#5 closest · Finance Analyst · 104 openings · Close#6 closest · Finance Manager · 288 openings · Close#7 closest · Executive Director · 173 openings · Moderate change#8 closest · Team Lead · 179 openings · Moderate change#9 closest · Corporate Counsel · 148 openings · Moderate change#10 closest · Implementation Consultant · 100 openings · Moderate change

Skill transition

How much each market's required skills differ from your
current role.

  • Very close2
  • Close4
  • Moderate change4

Larger circles = more open jobs, from 100 to 546 here.

Tap a market to put it at the center.

The 10 markets closest to Accountant, ranked by how much their skills overlap with your current role. Distance from the center shows how different the required skills are, closer is a smaller change. Color is the transition band; circle size is open jobs.

  • Financial Controller

    from Accountant

    Excellent match

    Very close

    Among the 2 closest moves from Accountant. Accountant and Financial Controller ask for the same skills at similar rates. On this evidence they're one market under two titles.

    104

    openings in Financial Controller

    6

    skills you already have

    0

    skills to learn

    0

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    AccountantFinancial Controllershare of postings

    financial reporting

    57%32%

    certified public accountant

    46%14%

    financial analysis

    24%13%

    internal controls

    19%12%

    accounts payable

    29%11%

    payroll

    21%11%

    You'll need to learn

    Nothing new: every skill Financial Controller asks for is already among Accountant's.

    How much work is out there

    Accountant
    546
    Financial Controller
    104

    Smaller than the market you're in, but 6 of the skills it asks for are ones you already have.

    546 Accountant postings · 104 Financial Controller postings · 350 normalized skills · snapshot 2026-07-16

Methodology

What is this based on?

231,145 live job postings from 28,870 employers across 163 markets, captured 2026-07-16. Skills come from each posting's stated requirements.

How is distance calculated?

Each market becomes a profile of the skills its postings request, and markets are compared by how much those profiles overlap (an IDF-weighted cosine similarity, so skills that appear in almost every role count for less). The closest markets sit nearest the center, grouped into five bands from Very close to Different field.

What do the skill lists mean?

Shared skills are the ones both roles commonly ask for. Skills to learn are the ones the target market asks for that your current role doesn't, ranked by how much more often they come up.

What isn't included?

Years of experience, seniority, salary, portfolio or certification requirements, or how competitive a role is to land. Skill overlap is one axis of a move, not the whole picture.

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