Accountant CV example
UK finance recruiters look for your qualification status, the systems you know and the size of the numbers you’ve worked with. This example shows how to put them on a two-page CV.
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Example accountant CV
Written for UK employers. The employer is fictional and the figures are illustrative — replace them with your own.
Professional summary
ACCA-qualified management accountant with 6 years in manufacturing and logistics. Leads month-end close and budgeting for a £40m business unit and has replaced manual reporting with automated Power BI dashboards. Looking for a senior finance business partner role.
Experience
Management Accountant
Fenwick Components Ltd (fictional), Birmingham · Mar 2021 – Present
- Lead month-end close for a £40m business unit, reducing the close from 8 to 5 working days.
- Prepare the annual budget and monthly forecasts, and present variance analysis to the operations board.
- Built Power BI dashboards that replaced 10 manual monthly reports.
- Identified £250k of annual savings through a review of freight and logistics contracts.
Skills
Month-end close · Budgeting and forecasting · Variance analysis · Sage and SAP · Advanced Excel · Power BI · Business partnering
Licences and certifications to list
- ACCA, ACA or CIMA (state qualified, finalist or part-qualified)
- AAT, if relevant
State your qualification status clearly
Recruiters filter on it. Write "ACCA qualified", "ACCA finalist" or "CIMA — 8 of 12 exams passed", and put it in your personal statement as well as your education section.
UK conventions
Follow the UK CV format: two sides of A4, a personal statement, no photo or date of birth, and amounts in pounds.
Frequently asked questions
- Should I include my exam results?
- For part-qualified accountants, list the papers passed and any prizes. Once qualified, the qualification is usually enough.
Templates for this
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Put it into practice
Build it from a region-matched template, then check what an ATS reads.