Best Jobs For Former Accounts Payable Clerks [2023]

It’s tough to be a accounts payable clerk nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a accounts payable clerk isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become accounts payable clerks in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many accounts payable clerks no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former accounts payable clerks to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CLERKS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CLERKS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Administrative Assistant	2.91%
2	Staff Accountant	2.83%
3	Accounting Clerk	2.55%
4	Office Manager	2.47%
5	Accountant	2.42%
6	Accounts Receivable Specialist	1.93%
7	Customer Service Representative	1.74%
8	Accounting Assistant	1.26%
9	Bookkeeper	1.24%
10	Billing Specialist	1.17%
11	Senior Accountant	0.98%
12	Finance Analyst	0.93%
13	Accounts Payable Supervisor	0.86%
14	Accounting Manager	0.85%
15	Human Resources Coordinator	0.84%
16	Payroll Administrator	0.83%
17	Accounts Payable Manager	0.72%
18	Account Payables Analyst	0.7%
19	Payroll Specialist	0.63%
20	Accounts Receivable Clerk	0.59%
21	Office Assistant	0.57%
22	Sales Associate	0.54%
23	Accounts Payable Associate	0.51%
24	Cashier	0.48%
25	Buyer	0.46%
26	Executive Assistant	0.43%
27	Data Entry Clerk	0.43%
28	Receptionist	0.41%
29	Assistant Manager	0.41%
30	Controller	0.39%
31	Manager	0.38%
32	Accounting Associate	0.37%
33	Human Resources Manager	0.36%
34	Office Administrator	0.36%
35	Account Manager	0.33%
36	Coordinator	0.33%
37	Business Analyst	0.33%
38	Customer Service Trainer	0.32%
39	Administrator	0.31%
40	Specialist	0.31%
41	Accounts Payable Lead	0.31%
42	Senior Accounts Payable Specialist	0.31%
43	Cost Accountant	0.29%
44	Operations Manager	0.29%
45	Accounts Payable Administrator	0.28%
46	Team Leader	0.28%
47	Data Entry Associate	0.28%
48	Analyst	0.27%
49	Human Resources Assistant	0.27%
50	Owner	0.26%
51	Clerk	0.24%
52	Substitute Teacher	0.24%
53	Accounts Payable Assistant	0.23%
54	Cash Application Specialist	0.23%
55	Assistant Controller	0.23%
56	Accounting Technician	0.23%
57	Payroll Clerk	0.23%
58	Accounting Coordinator	0.23%
59	Junior Accountant	0.22%
60	Human Resource Specialist	0.22%
61	Project Accountant	0.22%
62	Consultant	0.22%
63	Teacher	0.22%
64	Supervisor	0.21%
65	Legal Assistant	0.21%
66	Payroll Manager	0.21%
67	Charge Bookkeeper	0.19%
68	Volunteer	0.19%
69	Project Coordinator	0.19%
70	Assistant	0.19%
71	Credit Analyst	0.19%
72	Accounting Analyst	0.19%
73	Finance Manager	0.18%
74	Senior Finance Analyst	0.18%
75	Accounting Supervisor	0.18%
76	Tax Preparer	0.17%
77	Finance Specialist	0.17%
78	Property Manager	0.17%
79	Auditor	0.17%
80	Owner/operator	0.17%
81	Project Manager	0.17%
82	Aircraft Mechanic	0.16%
83	Secretary	0.16%
84	Accounts Receivable Analyst	0.16%
85	Data Analyst	0.16%
86	Accounts Payable Technician	0.16%
87	Accountable Clerk	0.16%
88	Account Specialist	0.16%
89	Accounts Receivable Manager	0.16%
90	Medical Assistant	0.16%
91	Finance Assistant	0.16%
92	Purchasing Agent	0.16%
93	Senior Staff Accountant	0.16%
94	Internship	0.16%
95	Processor	0.15%
96	Collections Specialist	0.15%
97	Finance Coordinator	0.14%
98	Associate	0.14%
99	Home Health Aid	0.14%
100	Office Clerk	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CLERKS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a accounts payable clerk would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former accounts payable clerks to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CLERKS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed accounts payable clerk under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a accounts payable clerk, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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