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AccountantAccountant CV example (2026)
An accountant CV leads with qualification status ('ACCA, 2021' or 'CPA candidate, 2 exams remaining') and the summary states your ledger scope: entity count, revenue size, close timeline, systems. Bullets should quantify process ownership — how fast you close, what you reconcile, errors caught, audits passed clean — because 'responsible for month-end close' describes every accountant alive. Name every system and standard; both humans and ATS filters match on them literally.
What recruiters scan for in a Accountant CV
- 1Qualification status with dates, including part-qualified progress
- 2Close ownership: entity count, close timeline, revenue scale
- 3Named systems (SAP, NetSuite, Xero) and standards (IFRS, GAAP)
- 4Clean-audit history and process improvements
Example Accountant CV
A condensed but realistic example — note how every bullet pairs an action with a number, and how tools and methods are named exactly. Details are fictional.
Katarzyna Nowak
Accountant (ACCA) · Month-End Close & Reporting
Gdańsk, PL · katarzyna.nowak@email.com · linkedin.com/in/knowak
Summary
ACCA-qualified accountant with 6 years in shared-services and mid-market companies. Own the full close for 3 entities (~€60M combined revenue) in NetSuite under IFRS; cut close from day 9 to day 5 and delivered four consecutive clean audits.
Experience
Senior Accountant
2022 – present
Baltica Group (logistics, 3 entities)
- Own month-end close for 3 entities (€60M revenue) in NetSuite under IFRS; reduced close from day 9 to day 5 by re-sequencing reconciliations and automating recurring journals.
- Maintain 40+ balance-sheet reconciliations monthly; identified and recovered €180k in duplicated supplier payments during a historical cleanup.
- Prepared audit files for Big-4 audits four years running — zero adjustments above trivial threshold each year.
- Automated intercompany matching in Excel/Power Query, saving ~3 days per quarter and eliminating a recurring source of consolidation errors.
Accountant, Shared Services
2019 – 2022
Provex BPO
- Ran AP/AR and GL postings for two German clients in SAP (2,000+ invoices/month); processing accuracy above 99.5% on client audits.
- Prepared monthly VAT returns and supported statutory filings under local GAAP with the client's tax advisors.
Skills
- ACCA (2021)
- Month-end close & consolidation
- IFRS & Polish GAAP
- NetSuite & SAP
- Balance-sheet reconciliations
- VAT & statutory filings
- Excel (Power Query) & automation
Education
MSc Finance & Accounting, University of Gdańsk, 2019
ATS keywords for Accountant roles
These terms appear most often in Accountant job descriptions and carry the most ATS score weight. Make sure the ones you can honestly claim appear in your CV — in the exact phrasing.
- 1CPA / ACCA / CIMA (including part-qualified status)
- 2Month-end close and balance-sheet reconciliations
- 3GAAP / IFRS / statutory reporting
- 4ERP systems (SAP, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero)
- 5AP/AR, accruals, and audit preparation
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Accountant CV FAQ
How do I show qualification progress if I'm part-qualified?
State it precisely — 'ACCA part-qualified, 9/13 papers passed, finalist 2026' — in the headline area. Part-qualified status is a real hiring category with its own salary band; vagueness costs you interviews at both levels.
What numbers matter on an accountant CV?
Close timeline (day 5 vs. day 10), entity and revenue scope, reconciliation volume, audit outcomes, and money you found or saved. One recovered-error bullet ('€180k duplicated payments') outweighs a paragraph of responsibilities.
Should I list Excel on an accounting CV?
Yes, but with specifics that separate you from 'proficient in Excel': Power Query, pivot-based reconciliation models, automation you built. Increasingly worth one bullet: any close task you automated, and the days it saved.