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AI in finance and accounting: routine work shrinks, analysis is in higher demand

Finance and accounting are among the fields most assisted by AI for repetitive tasks: recording transactions, reconciling reports, and producing routine financial summaries. For anyone working in this field, it matters to understand which parts of the job are changing, and which skills keep you in demand.

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This article covers official data on where jobs in this field are heading, then the skills worth strengthening so you're not relying only on tasks that are increasingly automated.

Official data: two different directions in one field

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects employment of bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks to decline 6% from 2025 to 2035. This role generally consists of repetitive data entry and transaction recording — exactly the kind of work most easily assisted by automated software.

In contrast, the BLS projects employment of accountants and auditors to grow 5% over the same period, faster than the 3% average for all occupations. The accountant and auditor role involves more analysis, professional judgment, and compliance responsibility, which is far harder to fully automate.

These two figures follow the same pattern seen in other fields: it's not that "finance will disappear", but that routine, fixed-pattern tasks shift to automated tools while tasks requiring analysis and judgment keep growing.

Skills in higher demand in finance

PwC's analysis of nearly a billion job ads worldwide found that workers with advanced AI skills earned an average wage premium of 56% in 2024, up from 25% the year before, and this premium held across every industry analysed, including the financial sector.

  • The ability to read and interpret financial reports to make decisions, not just produce them.
  • Understanding how your company's financial automation tools actually work, including when to double-check their output.
  • Data analysis and pattern recognition, to spot trends that aren't obvious from raw reports.
  • Regulatory and compliance knowledge (tax, accounting, financial reporting) that keeps changing and needs human judgment to apply correctly.
  • Cross-functional communication: explaining financial findings to people outside an accounting background.

Concrete steps if you work in this field

  1. 1Master the tools your office usesLearn the automation features already in your accounting software, rather than running the same manual steps as before.
  2. 2Shift focus toward analysisPractice reading reports to find why a number changed, not just producing the number.
  3. 3Keep regulatory knowledge currentFollow changes in tax and financial reporting rules relevant to your work.
  4. 4Learn basic data analysisTake short training on advanced spreadsheets or basic data analysis, without needing to become a data scientist.
  5. 5Document your analytical contributionsRecord decisions or recommendations you made based on analysis, as proof of value beyond routine recording.

On Resmi.ID Karir, you can save a search for your target finance or accounting role and get notified by WhatsApp or email when a matching job is posted, while also tracking which skills keep appearing in job descriptions in this field.

If your current job is mostly data entry and routine recording, start adding more analytical tasks before that routine work shrinks further. Analytical skills are far harder to replace than recording skills.

Conclusion

Official data shows two different directions within one field: routine recording jobs are shrinking, while analysis and professional judgment jobs keep growing. For anyone in finance and accounting, the safest move is to deliberately shift your work toward analysis, communication, and regulatory understanding, rather than waiting for routine tasks to be automated first.

References

This information is general. For important decisions, check the latest rules at official sources or consult the relevant authorities.

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