Capabilities

Navigate through our comprehensive set of professional capabilities

Careers

Learn about the different finance roles and opportunities the ACCA Qualification will bring you.

SKILL LEVEL

Select the skill level and find appropriate capabilities to suit the stage of your career.

Proficient

ACCA members with a minimum of three years’ experience gained during the journey to qualification. At this career level you are usually expected to have some post qualification experience where you build further on the Insight, Drive and Collaboration skills needed to succeed.

Expert

ACCA members/fellows with considerable post qualification experience with a breadth and depth of exposure to a variety of scenarios. At this career level, you are likely to be managing a team or function, or progressing strongly in a specialist area of expertise.

Leader

ACCA fellows with vastly significant post qualification experience. At this level, you are likely to be a senior leader perhaps in a C-suite or entrepreneurial role.

Collaboration

Capability

Collaboration focuses on interacting with others: engaging effectively with internal and external stakeholders, communicating clearly, being inclusive and influencing impactfully.

Related capabilities
 

Collaboration

Digital

Drive

Ethics

Insight

Sustainability

Suggested CPD

 

The accountant as a strategic influencer and advisor - becoming a business partner (part two) | ACCA Global

Negotiation Mastery

The accountant as a strategic influencer and advisor - the role of business partner

 

Capabilities

Communicates clearly and with confidence, simplifies complexity, presents arguments logically and concisely and presents information using appropriate technologies.

 

  • I create a culture that fosters effective communication where information and ideas are effectively shared and exchanged
  • I create clarity from ambiguity
  • I communicate effectively, assertively and sensitively in high risk situations to resolve complex or difficult issues
  • I put in place mechanisms to ensure that effective communications exist at all levels in the organisation and with all my stakeholders
  • I devote time to communicating the organisation's vision, strategy and objectives.

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