CAREER INSIGHT · DEGREES
Jobs that take a B.Com, BBA or B.Sc: what our listings show
Most of HireSetu's listings ask for engineering. A smaller set asks for commerce, science or any degree, and the skills they want instead are learnable in weeks.
24 live listings named a non-engineering degree as acceptable. Which roles they were, what they asked for instead, and how to get shortlisted.
NTT DATA's listing for an Info Technology Associate in Bengaluru and Noida says it in one line: any non-BTech graduate with English as a compulsory subject. Few listings are that direct, and HireSetu's listings lean heavily towards engineering. Still, when we read all 494 job descriptions live in late October 2026, 24 named a non-engineering degree as acceptable: B.Com, BBA, B.Sc, BA, CA Inter, an MBA, or simply any degree.
About one listing in twenty, then, so this is not a guide that pretends the field is wide open. It is a map of where the doors are, built from the listings themselves, and of what those employers asked for in place of an engineering degree.
Where the 24 listings were
Finance and accounting operations
The largest group. Commerce degrees are named outright.
- EXL: accounts payable, accounts receivable, order to cash, sales tax, accounting and reporting
- WNS: accounts payable on US shifts, commerce graduates
- IBM: procure to pay, commerce graduate with an accounts payable focus
- Infosys BPM: junior accountant, B.Com
- Flex: junior financial analyst, B.Com, BBA, M.Com or MBA
- Siemens: finance and procurement trainee, B.Com or BBA
- Eaton: assistant analyst, accounting, MBA or finance
Audit, risk, control and forensics
Big 4 and banks; CA Inter and MBA show up here.
- KPMG: control testing analyst, B.Com, B.Sc or B.Tech
- Deloitte: forensic investigation executive, CA, law or finance MBA
- Deloitte: data analysis in Excel, B.Com, BBA or CA Inter
- Barclays: operations associate, graduate, postgraduate or MBA
Data and technology
Fewer, and usually wanting proof of skills.
- Deloitte: AI and ML analyst, degrees from B.Tech to B.Sc, B.Com, BCA and MBA
- NTT DATA: info technology associate, any non-BTech graduate
- Compunet: application developer, B.Sc or BA in computer science
- Accenture: quality auditing associate, BE, B.Tech or B.Sc
Apprenticeships and trainee programmes
Built for fresh graduates, with a stipend.
- Volvo: graduate apprentice trainees for B.Com and BBA, including invoice processing
- State Street: apprentice programme for finance graduates
- Sigmoid: industrial trainee in finance and accounting, CA Inter cleared
- Emerson: technical support engineer, B.E., diploma, ITI or any degree
What they asked for instead
Read the requirement sections of these 24 listings and the same handful of skills keeps appearing. None of them needs an engineering degree, and all of them can be shown on a resume with evidence.
| Skill | Where it showed up | How to show it |
|---|---|---|
| Excel beyond basics | Most finance, audit and data roles | A small workbook with lookups, a pivot table and a reconciliation, saved as a portfolio file |
| Accounting fundamentals | All finance operations roles | Your B.Com marks, plus being able to explain a journal entry, accruals and a bank reconciliation aloud |
| Written English | NTT DATA made it a condition; client-facing roles assume it | A clean resume and cover note; in interviews, short clear answers |
| Willingness for shifts | US-shift payables and support roles | A clear yes in the form, if you mean it |
| CA Inter or an MBA | Audit, forensics, tax and analyst roles | Group results and articleship or internship details |
| Some programming or SQL | Data and IT roles | One project with code you can walk through |
Getting shortlisted without the engineering filter
Many application forms ask for your degree in a dropdown, and some screening tools reject anything outside a list. When a listing names your degree, that filter works in your favour; when it says only "graduate", apply and let the resume do the work. When it names only engineering degrees, it usually means it.
Commerce graduates have one advantage engineers in the same pile do not: the domain. In finance operations interviews, being able to explain a debit note, a three-way match or why input tax credit depends on the vendor's GST number puts you ahead of a candidate with a better-known college and no accounting background.
A two-week plan for a B.Com or BBA graduate
- Week 1: Excel lookups, pivots, removing duplicates and simple reconciliations, with one practice file per day.
- Week 1: revise journal entries, accruals, GST input credit and bank reconciliation until you can explain each in two sentences.
- Week 2: write a one-page resume that puts these skills above extracurriculars, with the practice files linked.
- Week 2: apply to every listing that names your degree, and to apprenticeship programmes that accept it.
Keep a list of every listing you apply to with the degree line copied into it. After twenty applications, the lines that led to interviews will show you which door is actually open for your degree, and that is worth more than any general advice, including this article.
References and further reading
- Bachelor of Commerce (Wikipedia)
- The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
- National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS)
Background reading on the topic of this article. HireSetu is not affiliated with these organisations.
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