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United Kingdom · Finance roles · Mid-Level (2-5 years)

IFRS Specialist

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  • Experience bandMid-Level (2-5 years)
  • Direct reportsNo direct reports
  • Reports toIFRS Manager
  • UK framework levelUsually a coordinator, or early in a professional job

Also advertised as Technical Accountant (IFRS) · Financial Reporting Analyst (IFRS) · Senior Accountant (IFRS Focus)

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1What this role really is

As an IFRS Specialist, you'll be the person who dives deep into the accounting standards, making sure our financial statements truly reflect the business. You're not just crunching numbers; you're interpreting complex rules and translating them into practical accounting treatments. This role is about owning specific areas of IFRS accounting, making sure everything is spot-on before it goes to the senior team or the auditors. It's a critical role for keeping our books clean and compliant.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

ERP Systems (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle NetSuite)Intermediate

Navigating modules to extract transaction data for IFRS analysis (e.g., fixed assets, revenue), posting prepared journal entries, and running standard financial reports.

Consolidation & Reporting (Workiva, Oracle EPM/Hyperion, OneStream)Intermediate

Populating data templates, performing tie-outs for IFRS disclosures, running pre-defined reports, and understanding basic data flow within the system.

Lease Accounting Software (LeaseQuery, Nakisa, Visual Lease)Intermediate

Entering new lease contracts, running standard amortization schedules for IFRS 16, and preparing basic reconciliation reports.

Advanced Excel (Power Query, VBA, Data Models)Advanced

Using VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, PivotTables, and complex nested formulas to analyse large data sets, prepare IFRS supporting schedules, and build robust working papers.

Technical Research Platforms (IASB IFRS Portal, Thomson Reuters Checkpoint, PwC Viewpoint)Intermediate

Locating specific paragraphs within an IFRS standard to answer a defined accounting question, following guidance from senior team members.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Application of IFRS to routine transactionsPropose treatment, requires full review and approval from Senior IFRS Specialist.Independently apply treatment within established guidelines; consult manager for exceptions or complex scenarios.Independently apply treatment, review junior team's work, consult Director on highly judgmental areas.
Drafting Technical Accounting MemosAssist with research and data gathering for memo content.Draft initial memos for routine to moderately complex issues, requires manager review and approval.Draft and finalise memos for complex issues, make recommendations, seek Director sign-off.
Resolving IFRS Data DiscrepanciesIdentify discrepancies and escalate to senior team for resolution.Investigate and propose solutions for discrepancies; implement solutions after manager approval.Lead investigation and resolution of complex discrepancies, often involving multiple systems/teams.
Communication of IFRS Impact to BusinessProvide input to senior team for business communications.Explain IFRS impacts to peers and non-finance teams for specific transactions; escalate complex questions to manager.Lead discussions with commercial teams on IFRS implications, influence contract structuring.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Error Rate on Assigned IFRS Areas
The number of material errors or significant adjustments identified by auditors or senior management in your directly owned IFRS accounting areas.
Target · <0.5% error rate (zero material errors)

You own IFRS 15 revenue recognition. If auditors find a £100,000 misstatement in a revenue accrual you prepared, that's a significant error. We're aiming for none of those.

Timely Completion of IFRS Reconciliations & Schedules
Percentage of assigned IFRS-specific reconciliations, journal entries, and supporting schedules completed by the agreed month-end or quarter-end deadlines.
Target · 95%+ completion rate by deadline

If you're responsible for the IFRS 16 lease accounting schedules, we expect them to be ready for review by the 3rd working day after month-end, consistently.

Resolution of Level-Appropriate Queries
The proportion of technical accounting queries you handle that require minimal or no further review/correction from your manager before being finalised.
Target · 80%+ resolved with one review round

When the commercial team asks about the revenue recognition for a new type of contract, your initial assessment and proposed treatment should be largely correct and only need minor tweaks from your manager.

Documentation Quality Score
An internal rating of the clarity, completeness, and audit-readiness of your technical accounting documentation and working papers.
Target · Average score of 4 out of 5 (or higher)

Your working papers for the IFRS 9 ECL calculation should be so clear that a new joiner could pick them up and understand the rationale and data sources without much hand-holding.

Proactive Issue Identification
How well you spot potential accounting issues before they become problems, especially related to new transactions or changes in business models.
  • You flag a new contract type to your manager early, asking for guidance on IFRS 15 implications. You notice a change in how we're using a financial instrument and proactively reassess its IFRS 9 classification. You're not just reacting
  • you're thinking ahead.
Effective Communication of Technical Concepts
Your ability to explain complex IFRS concepts and their P&L impact to non-accountants (e.g., commercial teams, FP&A) in a clear, understandable way.
  • Commercial teams come to you directly for accounting advice because they trust your explanations. Your manager notes that you've simplified a complex IFRS 16 modification explanation for the wider finance team. You avoid jargon where possible.
Collaboration & Information Gathering
How effectively you work with other teams (Legal, Commercial, Treasury) to gather the necessary information for accurate accounting treatment.
  • You're known for getting the right details from the Legal team on contract clauses that impact IFRS 15. You build good relationships with the Treasury team to understand financial instrument specifics. You don't just wait for information
  • you go and get it.
Adherence to 'Substance Over Form'
Your judgment in looking beyond the legal structure of a transaction to understand its true economic reality for IFRS purposes, especially in ambiguous situations.
  • You challenge the legal team on a contract's wording because you believe its economic substance points to a different IFRS 15 treatment. You're able to articulate why a transaction, despite its legal form, should be accounted for in a certain way, and your manager agrees.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Solving Complex Puzzles

You get a real kick out of unpicking a tricky accounting scenario, finding the right IFRS guidance, and figuring out the correct treatment. It's like being a detective for financial statements.

You're given a new, bespoke customer contract and you enjoy the process of dissecting it against IFRS 15 criteria to determine revenue recognition.

Ensuring Accuracy and Integrity

You feel a deep satisfaction knowing that your work contributes to reliable, accurate financial reporting. You're driven by the desire to get things right, every single time.

You spend extra time reconciling a complex balance sheet account, not because you have to, but because you want to be 100% confident in its accuracy.

Continuous Learning and Specialisation

The world of IFRS is always changing, and you're excited by the prospect of constantly learning new standards, interpretations, and best practices. You want to be an expert in your field.

You proactively read up on the latest IASB discussions or attend webinars on upcoming IFRS amendments, even if they don't immediately impact your current work.

What frustrates people
  • Being perceived as a roadblock by commercial teams who just want to 'get the deal done' without considering the accounting implications.
  • Spending ages trying to get complete and accurate information from other departments, only for it to be delivered late or piecemeal.
  • The sheer density and occasional ambiguity of IFRS standards, making it tough to find a clear-cut answer sometimes.
  • Having to explain complex, non-cash P&L impacts (like goodwill impairment) to non-finance people who just don't get it.
  • The constant pressure of keeping up with new standards and interpretations – it feels like a never-ending reading list on top of your day job.
What this role does not give you
  • A clear, black-and-white answer to every accounting problem; there's a lot of judgment involved.
  • A role where you're always the 'hero' making things happen; sometimes you're the one saying 'hang on, we can't do that'.
  • A predictable, unchanging daily routine; new transactions and issues pop up all the time.
  • A role where you get to ignore the fine print; the details really do matter here.

6Who you work with

This role ensures that specific, high-risk areas of our financial reporting are compliant with IFRS. Your accurate application of standards directly reduces audit risk, supports informed decision-making by leadership, and maintains our credibility with investors and regulators. Frankly, if you get this wrong, it can cost us a lot of money and reputation.

Inside the business
  • IFRS Manager and Senior IFRS Specialists
  • Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team
  • Group Reporting team
  • Commercial and Legal teams (for contract reviews)
  • Treasury department
Outside the business
  • External auditors (PwC, Deloitte, EY, KPMG)
  • Accounting software vendors (occasionally)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • A degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Roughly 2-5 years of experience in an accounting or audit role, ideally with some exposure to IFRS.
  • Demonstrable experience in preparing financial reconciliations and journal entries for complex accounts.
  • Proven ability to research accounting literature and apply it to practical scenarios (even if it's just basic GAAP initially).
  • Strong Excel skills – we mean VLOOKUPs, PivotTables, and being comfortable with large datasets, not just basic sums.
  • An understanding of how an ERP system works and how to extract data from it.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced IFRS 9 & Hedge Accounting

Financial instruments are only getting more complex. You'll need to move beyond basic classification to understanding advanced hedge accounting (e.g., cash flow hedges, fair value hedges) and the nuances of Expected Credit Loss (ECL) modelling.

Hedge Effectiveness Testing · ECL Modelling Inputs · Derivatives Valuation

  • This week: Review our current hedge documentation and try to understand the effectiveness testing.
  • This month: Read the relevant sections of an IFRS 9 textbook or online course on hedge accounting.
  • Month 2: Shadow a senior team member on a call with Treasury about a new financial instrument.
  • Month 3: Propose a more detailed analysis for a specific financial instrument in our portfolio.

Quick win: Familiarise yourself with the basic definitions of different types of derivatives (forwards, futures, options, swaps) and how they're typically used in a corporate treasury function.

IFRS 3 Business Combinations & PPA

As the company grows, acquisitions become more frequent. You'll need to move from assisting with basic PPA to actively participating in the valuation and accounting for acquired assets and liabilities, including complex intangibles.

Identifiable Intangible Assets · Contingent Consideration · Goodwill Impairment Testing

  • This week: Review our past acquisition accounting papers, if available, to see how PPA was done.
  • This month: Read up on the IFRS 3 standard and common challenges in business combinations.
  • Month 2: Shadow a senior team member or external consultant during a PPA discussion.
  • Month 3: Try to model a hypothetical small acquisition's PPA based on some simple assumptions.

Quick win: Understand the difference between goodwill and other intangible assets, and why that distinction matters for IFRS.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly reading IASB updates, IFRS technical alerts from audit firms, and relevant accounting journals to stay current.
  • Attending webinars or online courses on new or complex IFRS standards (e.g., IFRS 17 for insurance, upcoming amendments).
  • Participating in internal finance training sessions or presenting on IFRS topics to peers.
  • Seeking out opportunities to work on new or unusual transactions that will challenge your IFRS knowledge.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

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The rising capability

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What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Honestly, competitors are already using AI like ChatGPT or Claude to draft reports and summaries in minutes that used to take hours. Analysts who figure this out will outproduce their peers significantly. This isn't future-gazing; it's happening now.

  • Context Windows & Token Limits
  • Temperature Settings
  • RAG Architectures
  • Output Validation & Hallucination Detection

Data Visualisation for Financial Insights

Numbers alone don't always tell the story. Leaders, especially non-finance ones, need to quickly grasp the impact of IFRS changes. Being able to present complex financial data visually will make your insights far more impactful and easier to digest.

  • Choosing the Right Chart Type
  • Dashboard Design Principles
  • Storytelling with Data
  • Interactive Visualisations

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • IFRS Standards Interpretation & Application
  • Technical Accounting Memo Writing
  • Financial Statement Consolidation & Disclosure (Basic)
  • Impact Analysis & Implementation (Basic)
  • Financial Instrument Accounting (IFRS 9)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Audit Associate/Senior from a 'Big Four' Firm

    2-4 years in audit

    Skills to master

    • Strong grasp of IFRS from audit engagements, excellent documentation skills, exposure to various industries and complex transactions.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully completed audit cycles for IFRS clients.
    • Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve accounting issues during an audit.
    • Experience in drafting audit findings or technical accounting points.
  2. 2

    Financial Accountant / Reporting Accountant

    3-5 years in a financial accounting role

    Skills to master

    • Hands-on experience with month-end close, reconciliations, preparing financial statements, and applying IFRS in a commercial setting.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Owned specific sections of the financial statements or reporting process.
    • Experience in preparing audit schedules and responding to auditor queries.
    • Proactively sought out opportunities to learn more about IFRS in previous roles.
  3. 3

    Junior Technical Accountant

    1-2 years in a dedicated technical accounting team

    Skills to master

    • Direct exposure to technical accounting research, memo writing, and supporting senior specialists on complex IFRS issues.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Assisted in drafting parts of technical memos.
    • Helped with the implementation of new IFRS standards.
    • Demonstrated a keen interest and aptitude for complex accounting problems.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey as an IFRS Specialist is a continuous path of learning and specialisation. We're here to support you every step of the way, providing the challenges and opportunities you need to build a truly impactful career in finance. If you're excited by the prospect of becoming a trusted IFRS expert, this is a fantastic place to start (or continue) that journey.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how IFRS Specialist is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Work Effectively in Accounting and FinanceLevel 4

Applied to your work in IFRS Specialist

This unit aims to enable learners to understand the accounting function, demonstrate effective communication, work independently or in a team, and develop skills for personal and organisational needs.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

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Evidenced on your work in IFRS Specialist

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Error Rate on Assigned IFRS AreasThe number of material errors or significant adjustments identified by auditors or senior management in your directly owned IFRS accounting areas.You own IFRS 15 revenue recognition. If auditors find a £100,000 misstatement in a revenue accrual you prepared, that's a significant error. We're aiming for none of those.<0.5% error rate (zero material errors)
  • Timely Completion of IFRS Reconciliations & SchedulesPercentage of assigned IFRS-specific reconciliations, journal entries, and supporting schedules completed by the agreed month-end or quarter-end deadlines.If you're responsible for the IFRS 16 lease accounting schedules, we expect them to be ready for review by the 3rd working day after month-end, consistently.95%+ completion rate by deadline
  • Resolution of Level-Appropriate QueriesThe proportion of technical accounting queries you handle that require minimal or no further review/correction from your manager before being finalised.When the commercial team asks about the revenue recognition for a new type of contract, your initial assessment and proposed treatment should be largely correct and only need minor tweaks from your manager.80%+ resolved with one review round
  • Documentation Quality ScoreAn internal rating of the clarity, completeness, and audit-readiness of your technical accounting documentation and working papers.Your working papers for the IFRS 9 ECL calculation should be so clear that a new joiner could pick them up and understand the rationale and data sources without much hand-holding.Average score of 4 out of 5 (or higher)
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From IFRS Specialist to Senior IFRS Specialist (Level 003), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 3 · in progressAI Fluency→ Senior IFRS Specialist (Level 003)→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey as an IFRS Specialist is a continuous path of learning and specialisation. We're here to support you every step of the way, providing the challenges and opportunities you need to build a truly impactful career in finance. If you're excited by the prospect of becoming a trusted IFRS expert, this is a fantastic place to start (or continue) that journey.

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IFRS Specialist
  • IFRS Standards Interpretation & Application
  • Technical Accounting Memo Writing
  • Financial Statement Consolidation & Disclosure (Basic)
  • Impact Analysis & Implementation (Basic)
  • Financial Instrument Accounting (IFRS 9)
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

IFRS Specialist is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Senior IFRS Specialist (Level 003)

    2-3 years in the IFRS Specialist role

    This is the natural next step, where you'll take on more complex IFRS standards, lead projects, and start mentoring junior team members. You'll become the go-to person for specific standards.

    • Mastery of IFRS 3 (Business Combinations) and IAS 36 (Impairment of Assets).
    • Ability to independently draft and defend technical accounting memos for highly judgmental issues.
    • Leading discussions with external auditors on complex IFRS positions.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, IFRS work can be incredibly detailed and time-consuming. But what if you could cut down on the grunt work and focus on the really interesting, high-value judgment calls? We're embracing AI to make our IFRS Specialists more efficient and effective.

We're not talking about replacing your brain; we're talking about giving you a powerful co-pilot. Imagine AI handling the repetitive, data-heavy tasks, freeing you up to analyse, interpret, and advise. This isn't just a pipe dream; it's happening now, and we want you to be part of it.

Lease Abstraction Automation

Use AI (specifically Natural Language Processing) to scan new lease agreements. It'll automatically pull out all the key data points you need for IFRS 16 – things like lease term, payment amounts, renewal options, and discount rates. This drastically cuts down on manual data entry for new leases.

Revenue Contract Analysis

Imagine AI reviewing sales contracts, helping you to quickly identify distinct performance obligations, assess variable consideration, and flag any non-standard terms that could affect revenue recognition timing under IFRS 15. It's like having a super-fast second pair of eyes on every deal.

Regulatory Research Assistant

Leverage AI-powered search tools to instantly summarise new IASB exposure drafts, analyse comment letters from other companies, and find relevant precedents for a specific accounting issue across thousands of public filings. Cut down your research time from hours to minutes, giving you faster, more informed answers.

Disclosure & Memo Drafting

AI can generate a solid first draft of technical accounting memos or financial statement footnotes. You feed it structured data inputs and use predefined templates, and it'll give you a consistent, compliant starting point. This means you spend less time on initial drafting and more on refining the judgment and analysis.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become an IFRS Specialist?

Common routes in include Audit Associate/Senior from a 'Big Four' Firm (2-4 years in audit), Financial Accountant / Reporting Accountant (3-5 years in a financial accounting role) and Junior Technical Accountant (1-2 years in a dedicated technical accounting team). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can an IFRS Specialist progress to?

This role can lead on to Senior IFRS Specialist (Level 003) (2-3 years in the IFRS Specialist role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is an IFRS Specialist in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 3 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for an IFRS Specialist?

Increasingly, Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration and Data Visualisation for Financial Insights. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows an IFRS Specialist, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 1 national skill standard. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming an IFRS Specialist: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 3

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Finance roles

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The IFRS expertise you'll gain here is highly transferable across any industry that reports under IFRS. You could move into other large corporates, financial services, public practice (advisory), or even into regulatory bodies. Your technical accounting skills are a passport to many different career avenues.

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