Finance
Accountant resume example
A traditional field, written traditionally — and quantified anyway.
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Martin Whelan
martin@example.com | +353 1 555 0173 | Dublin, Ireland
Summary
Qualified accountant with seven years in industry, focused on close, controls and audit readiness for mid-market manufacturers.
Experience
Financial Accountant
Sep 2021 – Present
Ardmore Manufacturing, Dublin, Ireland
Cut month-end close from 11 working days to 6 by automating intercompany reconciliation in NetSuite.
Prepared the group audit file that closed with zero adjustments for three consecutive years.
Identified €340k of duplicate supplier payments across four entities and recovered €290k of it.
Rebuilt the fixed-asset register covering 2,400 items after a decade of spreadsheet drift.
Audit Senior
Jan 2018 – Aug 2021
Kearney & Doyle, Cork, Ireland
Led audit fieldwork on 14 clients a year with revenues from €4m to €80m, supervising teams of three.
Closed 46 prior-year control findings across the portfolio within two cycles.
Education
BComm, Accounting
Sep 2014 – Jun 2017
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, First Class Honours
Skills
Reporting: IFRS, Group consolidation, Statutory accounts, VAT
Systems: NetSuite, SAP, Power BI, Advanced Excel
Credentials: ACA (Chartered Accountants Ireland)
Why it is written this way
Conservative formatting is the right call here
Law, finance and academia expect a serif and a plain layout. The Chancery template exists for this, and departing from it is the thing people notice.
The close is the unit of work, so it is the unit of measurement
“Month-end close from 11 days to 6” is the sentence a controller is scanning for.
Software is named because it is a real filter
NetSuite and SAP are genuine screening criteria in this field, unlike the generic “Microsoft Office” line that appears on every resume and screens nobody.
Shapes to fill in
Each blank is yours to complete. These are the same scaffolds the builder offers for this occupation — none of them says anything until you fill it in, which is what keeps them useful rather than a lie somebody else wrote.
Made something faster or cheaper
- Cut ___ from ___ to ___ by ___
- Reduced ___ by ___% by ___
- Removed ___ from ___, saving ___ per ___
- Automated ___, taking it from ___ of manual work to ___
Shipped something
- Shipped ___, used by ___
- Built ___ that ___, replacing ___
- Launched ___ in ___, ___ ahead of ___
- Delivered ___ across ___ with ___
Handled scale or volume
- Operated ___ serving ___ ___ a ___
- Scaled ___ from ___ to ___ without ___
- Managed ___ worth ___ across ___
- Processed ___ ___ per ___ at ___ accuracy
Also called
Account Auditor · Accountant · Accounting Auditor · Accounting Consultant · Accounting Methods Analyst · Accounting Officer · Accounting Systems Analyst · Asset Analyst · Audit Associate · Audit Partner
From the O*NET occupation database. Worth checking which of these a posting uses, because that is the wording its keyword search will be built on.
What a parser reads from this resume
This is the actual plain-text output for the document above — the same text an applicant tracking system extracts, and the same text this app hands you when you download the .txt. Nothing is lost between the page and the parser, which is the whole argument for a single column of real text.
Martin Whelan martin@example.com | +353 1 555 0173 | Dublin, Ireland SUMMARY Qualified accountant with seven years in industry, focused on close, controls and audit readiness for mid-market manufacturers. EXPERIENCE Financial Accountant | Sep 2021 - Present Ardmore Manufacturing, Dublin, Ireland - Cut month-end close from 11 working days to 6 by automating intercompany reconciliation in NetSuite. - Prepared the group audit file that closed with zero adjustments for three consecutive years. - Identified €340k of duplicate supplier payments across four entities and recovered €290k of it. - Rebuilt the fixed-asset register covering 2,400 items after a decade of spreadsheet drift. Audit Senior | Jan 2018 - Aug 2021 Kearney & Doyle, Cork, Ireland - Led audit fieldwork on 14 clients a year with revenues from €4m to €80m, supervising teams of three. - Closed 46 prior-year control findings across the portfolio within two cycles. EDUCATION BComm, Accounting | Sep 2014 - Jun 2017 University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, First Class Honours SKILLS Reporting: IFRS, Group consolidation, Statutory accounts, VAT Systems: NetSuite, SAP, Power BI, Advanced Excel Credentials: ACA (Chartered Accountants Ireland)