Accountancy and Control

Published 10 January 2012

Career prospects

Accountancy & Control (MSc)

In the MSc Accountancy & Control programme, you learn to look at various types of organisations from both a financial and an economic perspective. You acquire valuable knowledge, understanding, professional experience and expertise, and this results in excellent career prospects for MSc Accountancy & Control graduates.

In addition to careers as accountants, either under contract or self-employed, Accountancy graduates go on to a variety of other positions. These include careers as:

  • controllers,
  • financial directors,
  • information managers,
  • consultants.

Graduates work for both commercial and nonprofit organisations, as well as for regulatory bodies like the Financial Markets Authority and the Dutch Central Bank.

Positions open to Control graduates vary from controller to financial director, with responsibility for the financial and general management of organisations. Working as a controller will appeal to students with a broad interest in issues related to organisation, accounting and financing. Controllers play a key role within organisational networks and must be able to form and express an opinion about virtually all of an organisation's activities.

Where do our graduates work?

Some examples of positions currently held by our accountancy & control graduates are:

-          Senior auditor at KPMG

-          Performance Manager at Enel

-          Finance trainee Benelux at Philips

 -         Assurance Associate at PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)

Source: Faculty of Economics and Business
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