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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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Financial Controller

104 open jobs·91 employers

10 markets are one step away

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

Accountant is both the closest move and the biggest opportunity nearby, with 546 openings.

#1 closest · Accountant · 546 openings · Very close#2 closest · Financial Analyst · 546 openings · Very close#3 closest · Finance Analyst · 104 openings · Very close#4 closest · Finance Manager · 288 openings · Close#5 closest · Bookkeeper · 216 openings · Close#6 closest · Tax Manager · 112 openings · Close#7 closest · Executive Director · 173 openings · Moderate change#8 closest · Chief Of Staff · 186 openings · Moderate change#9 closest · Business Analyst · 436 openings · Moderate change#10 closest · Team Lead · 179 openings · Moderate change

Skill transition

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

  • Very close3
  • Close3
  • Moderate change4

Larger circles = more open jobs, from 104 to 546 here.

Tap a market to put it at the center.

The 10 markets closest to Financial Controller, 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.

  • Accountant

    from Financial Controller

    Excellent match

    Very close

    Among the 3 closest moves from Financial Controller.

    546

    openings in Accountant

    6

    skills you already have

    6

    skills to learn

    6

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    Financial ControllerAccountantshare of postings

    financial reporting

    32%57%

    certified public accountant

    14%46%

    accounts payable

    11%29%

    financial analysis

    13%24%

    payroll

    11%21%

    internal controls

    12%19%

    You'll need to learn

    • attention to detailasked for in 49% of Accountant postings
    • excelasked for in 47% of Accountant postings
    • transactionsasked for in 33% of Accountant postings
    • auditasked for in 44% of Accountant postings
    • dashboardsasked for in 64% of Accountant postings
    • process improvementasked for in 15% of Accountant postings

    Strengthen what you have

    • financial reporting32% → 57%
    • certified public accountant14% → 46%
    • accounts payable11% → 29%
    • financial analysis13% → 24%
    • payroll11% → 21%
    • internal controls12% → 19%

    How much work is out there

    Financial Controller
    104
    Accountant
    546

    This market has 5.3x more postings than yours.

    What to do next

    1. 1 · Learn

      attention to detail

      Asked for in 49% of Accountant postings, and 5 other new skills.

    2. 2 · Strengthen

      financial reporting

      32% of Financial Controller postings ask for it, against 57% of Accountant.

    3. 3 · Look at the work

      546 Accountant postings

      Observed active in this snapshot.

    104 Financial Controller postings · 546 Accountant 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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