Accountant resume example

Accountant CV example from the UK: ACCA member, month-end close cut from 9 to 5 days, two clean audits, a Dynamics 365 migration and group reporting.

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Hannah Whitworth

ACCA Chartered Certified Accountant | Group Reporting, Month-End Close and Audit

Leeds, West Yorkshire9 years of experience

Summary

ACCA-qualified accountant with 9 years across external audit and in-house finance. Leads month-end and group consolidation for a £140m food manufacturer with four UK sites. Trained in a practice audit team, so she writes working papers that auditors sign off without rework and builds controls that hold up at year end.

Experience

Senior Financial AccountantJun 2021 - Present

Pennine Foods Group

  • Cut the month-end close from 9 working days to 5 by moving accruals and intercompany recharges onto a fixed timetable.
  • Own the consolidation of 4 trading subsidiaries into group accounts under FRS 102, with a combined turnover of £140m.
  • Two consecutive year-end audits closed with no adjusted misstatements, after a prior year with 11.
  • Led the finance side of a Sage 200 to Microsoft Dynamics 365 migration covering 2,300 nominal codes.
  • Supervise 2 assistant accountants and a purchase ledger clerk.
Audit Semi-SeniorSep 2019 - May 2021

Harlow & Price Chartered Accountants

  • Ran fieldwork on 14 statutory audits a year for owner-managed businesses with turnover of £5m to £60m.
  • Found a £310k revenue cut-off error at a client in construction, which led the firm to add a cut-off test to its standard audit programme.
  • Coached 3 first-year trainees on sampling and working-paper standards.
Audit TraineeSep 2017 - Aug 2019

Harlow & Price Chartered Accountants

  • Prepared statutory accounts and corporation tax computations for around 40 small companies a year.
  • Passed the 9 ACCA exams left after degree exemptions in 3 years while working full time.

Skills

  • Month-End Close
  • Group Consolidation
  • FRS 102 and IFRS
  • Statutory Accounts
  • External Audit Liaison
  • Balance Sheet Reconciliations
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Sage 200
  • Advanced Excel
  • VAT Returns

Certifications

  • ACCA member (Chartered Certified Accountant), admitted 2020

Education

BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance, Leeds Beckett University, 2017

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What hiring managers check first

Your qualification status up front

UK finance recruiters sort CVs by ACCA, CIMA or ACA status first. State whether you are qualified, part-qualified or studying, and the year you qualified.

The size and complexity of what you report

Turnover, number of entities and the reporting framework (FRS 102, IFRS) tell a hiring manager whether you can handle their group.

Close and audit results

Days to close and the number of audit adjustments are the metrics finance directors care about. Show the before and after.

Systems you have actually used

Name the ledgers, such as Sage, Dynamics or Xero, and any migration you worked on. It is often a shortlisting filter.

Keywords the applicant tracking system matches

  • ACCA
  • Financial Accountant
  • Month-End Close
  • Group Consolidation
  • FRS 102
  • IFRS
  • Statutory Accounts
  • Balance Sheet Reconciliation
  • Year-End Audit
  • Management Accounts
  • VAT
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365

Use the ones that are true of you, in the words the posting uses.

Mistakes to avoid

  1. Burying the ACCA status

    If the qualification only appears at the bottom, a recruiter screening 200 CVs may miss it. Put it in the headline and the summary.

  2. Describing tasks every accountant does

    'Prepared journals and reconciliations' fills space. Say what changed: a shorter close, fewer adjustments or a control that caught an error.

  3. Leaving practice experience vague

    If you trained in practice, give the number of audits and the size of clients. It shows breadth that pure in-house candidates lack.

Questions

How long should an accountant's CV be in the UK?
Two pages is standard for qualified accountants. One page suits trainees. Do not include a photo, date of birth or marital status.
Should I list every ACCA exam I passed?
Once qualified, no. Write 'ACCA qualified, 2020'. If you are part-qualified, list the papers passed and the ones remaining with expected dates.
Is audit experience useful for an in-house role?
Yes. Hiring managers value ex-auditors because they understand controls and know what the auditors will ask for. Make that link explicit in your summary.

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