Management Accountant (ANZSCO 221112)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Management Accountant on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Processing priority

Management Accountant isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

Management Accountant can be assessed by any of these authorities:

What the assessment actually involves

CPA Australia, the IPA and Chartered Accountants ANZ each independently assess Management Accountant, and the outcome from one body does not carry over to another. It sits in the same competency group as Accountant (General), Corporate Treasurer and Finance Manager, so CPA requires the identical seven mandatory areas — Accounting Systems and Processes, Business Law, Economics, Financial Accounting and Reporting, Finance and Financial Management, Management Accounting, Quantitative Methods — against a qualification assessed as at least bachelor-equivalent. ANZSCO's own task description marks the code out from its neighbours: performance-based reporting, asset valuation, budgetary systems, cost management, pricing and forecasting, rather than the compliance-based reporting that defines Accountant (General).

Where these applications come unstuck

The competency table gives Management Accountant no extra area beyond the shared seven, so the usual failure isn't a missing subject — it's evidence written to the wrong job. CPA reads the skilled employment claim against ANZSCO's performance-based, cost-and-forecasting definition; a testimonial describing compliance reporting, auditing or bookkeeping duties reads as Accountant (General) work, not this code. The same employment rules bite regardless: only post-degree work counts, concurrent roles cannot be stacked past twelve months in any twelve-month window, and CVs are not accepted as evidence.

An honest read on this pathway

Management Accountant reaches the same MLTSSL/CSOL visa spread as the rest of the family, and shares its competency bar with Accountant (General), Corporate Treasurer and Finance Manager — so the code choice among those four is really a question of which job title and duties your evidence actually supports, not which is easier to pass. CPA's own alternative title for the code, cost accountant, is worth checking against a foreign job title before nominating. As with the rest of the family, a positive outcome is a migration document, not membership of any professional body.

Whichever authority assesses you, the paperwork is the part applicants underestimate. The Document Vault keeps a single register of every document, what it was needed for, and what is still missing.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Management Accountant is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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