Great Resume Example for Financial Professionals

As a financial professional, a great resume is often your first opportunity to make a strong impression with employers. A polished, modern resume should clearly showcase your experience, accomplishments, and value in a way that’s easy for hiring managers to scan quickly. In this example, we demonstrate effective formatting and content that can help you land more interviews.

Jane Doe, CPA, CA, CMA, CGA, CPA (State)

Address
(555) 123-4567
jane.doe@gmail.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Accomplished financial management leader who leverages strong interpersonal and technical skills along with significant organizational and process improvement abilities to achieve business success.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Employer Name
Employer, Industry & Location

Describe what business the employer is in (manufacturing, distribution, financial services, etc.), the country/city/town and approximate annual revenue.

Business Title
Date, Duration of Position

• Developed detailed budget models to reflect key business drivers and to allow for better analysis and decision-making, thereby reducing budgeting process time by X days while also improving accuracy.
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively with a variety of different people, including financial and non-financial management and staff. Co-leader with the Director of HR of the Health & Safety Committee, which reduced days without injuries by X%.
• Implemented new procedures to reduce cycle times in reporting, budgeting and forecasting to allow for improved accuracy, additional time for analysis and enhanced decision making by stakeholders. Month-end was reduced from 10 to 7 business days while maintaining accuracy and enabling more time for deep financial analysis contributions for the C-Suite.

Employer Name
Employer, Industry & Location

Describe what business the employer is in (manufacturing, distribution, financial services, etc.), the country/city/town and approximate annual revenue.

Business Title
Date, Duration of Position

• Implemented a new budget process using (name of software), resulting in faster turnaround times for budget revisions, accurate tracking of changes made, reduction in clerical errors and better support to the Senior Executive Team.
• Coordinated process to restructure (name of software) database cube, resulting in streamlined consolidation of results and improved satisfaction of reporting cycle from 10 to 4 days/hours, allowing additional time for analysis of results.
• Financial project leader of an ERP software conversion from (name of software) to (name of software), resulting in improved customer satisfaction and reduced accounting cycle times.

EDUCATION

Governing Body Name (Location)
University Name (Location)
Degree Name, Year

COURSES

• The Controllers Program
• The CFO Leadership Program
• Accounting Handbook Refresher
• Corporate Tax Refresher
• Technology for CPAs

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

• SAP
• JD Edwards
• Cognos
• Timberline
• Crystal Reports
• Excel (Macros, V-Look Ups, X-Look Up, Pivot Tables)

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About the author:

Stephen Smyth is the CEO & Managing Consultant of Chief Financial Interviewer, Inc.

Chief Financial Interviewer, Inc. is a financial professional hiring consulting service – helping customers to hire only top notch financial professionals by performing effective job advertising, resume screening, state of the art interviewing and indepth reference checking services.