Full-time jobs for CA, CS and CMA professionals

Who these roles are for

Two broad groups. The first is newly qualified - you have cleared Final, or CS Professional, or CMA Final, and you are looking at your first role outside training. The second, and the larger one in practice, is semi-qualified: CA Inter or CS Executive cleared, real working experience behind you, and a market that too often reads that as a half-finished CA rather than as what it is - a finance professional who can do the work.

Postings here name the levels they are open to, so both groups can search without wading through the other's roles. If you are semi-qualified, filter to your level and the list will stop wasting your time with openings that were never going to consider you.

Reading a listing properly before you apply

The experience band is the field most worth taking seriously. If a posting asks for three to five years and you have one, the application is usually not a near miss - it is a different role. Your time is better spent on five well-matched applications than thirty scattered ones, and the filters here exist to make that the easy path.

Salary is shown when the employer discloses it, and a surprising number do not. That is not automatically a red flag in this field, where pay is often set after a conversation about your exam status. But between two otherwise equal listings, the one that published a number is telling you something about how it will negotiate.

Finally, read the requirements against your own profile skills. The employer sees a match indication built from your track, level and listed skills, which means a profile with its skills section left empty is competing at a disadvantage it does not need to.

Practice, industry or somewhere in between

Roles here come from both sides. Practice - audit firms, tax practices, company secretarial firms - tends to mean broader exposure early and a steeper learning curve. Industry roles in finance and accounts tend to mean depth in one business, more predictable hours, and a different kind of progression. Neither is the correct answer, and the category filter lets you look at each honestly before deciding.

The compliance and cost accounting categories are worth a look even if they were not what you set out to find. They are where a good deal of CS and CMA demand actually sits, and they are consistently less crowded than audit and taxation.