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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3313

Accounting associate professionals

Accounting associate professionals maintain complete records of financial transactions of an undertaking and verify accuracy of documents and records relating to such transactions. Tasks include - (a) maintaining complete records of all financial transactions of an undertaking according to general bookkeeping principles, with guidance from accountants; (b) verifying accuracy of documents and records relating to payments, receipts and other financial transactions; (c) preparing financial statements and reports for specified periods; (d) applying knowledge of bookkeeping principles and practices in order to identify and solve problems arising in the course of their work; (e) using standard computer software packages to perform accounting and related calculations; (f) supervising the work of accounts and bookkeeping clerks. Example of the occupations classified here: - Accounting assistant - Bookkeeper Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Accountant - 2411 - Actuarial assistant - 3314 - Bookkeeping clerk - 4311

A good share of the tasks are affected. It ranks 374 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • bookkeeper
  • grants administrator
  • accounting assistant

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

50.8
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 2

AI could take on 49.2 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 49.2 = 50.8

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

16.2
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

23.4
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 34 · hand skill 25 · cramped spaces 11.2 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 16.2 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 66, while the average is 49.2. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 66

    Using standard computer software packages to perform accounting and related calculations

    Medium
  2. 61

    Preparing financial statements and reports for specified periods

    Medium
  3. 51

    Verifying accuracy of documents and records relating to payments, receipts and other financial transactions

    Medium
  4. 45.3

    Maintaining complete records of all financial transactions of an undertaking according to general bookkeeping principles, with guidance from Accountants

    Low
  5. 39

    Applying knowledge of bookkeeping principles and practices in order to identify and solve problems arising in the course of their work

    Low
  6. 33

    Supervising the work of accounts and bookkeeping clerks.

    Low

6 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
75.5
AI does it for you
68.5

Helping wins by 7 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 5512, 5523

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.6. This one is below that.