Moving from accounting to business analysis in Hong Kong
Connect financial knowledge and reconciliation to business requirements.
Compare target roles
Business analyst vacancies may focus on finance, process improvement or software requirements. Reconciliation and reporting are useful foundations, but tools and domain knowledge vary.
Prepare an analysis example
Explain how you found a discrepancy, clarified requirements and presented findings across teams. Anonymised or simulated data can demonstrate your process when labelled accurately.
Frame analysis around a business question
Choose a public-data problem, define the metric and explain how the result could inform a decision. Connect financial reconciliation experience to data-quality checks and state your assumptions.
Illustrative reconciliation exercise
Suppose a sales table totals HK$100,000 and the ledger shows HK$95,000. Compare order dates and refund definitions, then check missing items with the relevant team; do not claim revenue changed before reconciling. Use self-created data to show steps, assumptions and further evidence needed.