Finance manager cover letter example
A finance manager’s cover letter shows the employer you can run their finance function. Name the post and the size of the business and team, give the reporting deadline you improved and two cash or credit results with figures, one control you added, then say why this employer.
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Marta Kowalczyk
Blackpool · [email protected] · 07700 900934
4 November 2026
Mr Gareth Pugh
Finance Director
Lune Valley Engineering Ltd
Caton Road
Lancaster LA1 9ZZ
Dear Mr Pugh
Application for Financial Controller
I am applying for the Financial Controller post at Lune Valley Engineering. For more than three years I have been finance manager at Fylde Coast Building Services, a £26 million contractor with 210 staff, leading a team of four and reporting to the finance director.
I brought our monthly management accounts forward from working day 12 to working day 6, and I own the budget and the variance notes the board reads each month. My 13-week cash forecast has helped us stay out of our overdraft since June 2024, and debtor days have fallen from 58 to 41 in 18 months.
I also led our move from desktop Sage to cloud accounting software, and added two-person approval for any change to a supplier’s bank details. I prepare our VAT returns under Making Tax Digital, including the construction reverse charge.
Your advert says you are adding a second company to the group next year, and I prepared a three-company consolidation for three years before my current post. I am an ACCA member. My CV is attached. Thank you for considering my application.
Yours sincerely
Marta Kowalczyk
Fictional letter from Marta Kowalczyk, the applicant in the finance manager CV example. Every person and employer in it is invented.
Why each paragraph is there
I am applying for the Financial Controller post at Lune Valley Engineering. For more than three years I have been finance manager at Fylde Coast Building Services, a £26 million contractor with 210 staff, leading a team of four and reporting to the finance director.
The post, the size of the business and the team you lead.
I brought our monthly management accounts forward from working day 12 to working day 6, and I own the budget and the variance notes the board reads each month. My 13-week cash forecast has helped us stay out of our overdraft since June 2024, and debtor days have fallen from 58 to 41 in 18 months.
The deadline you moved and two results with before and after figures.
I also led our move from desktop Sage to cloud accounting software, and added two-person approval for any change to a supplier’s bank details. I prepare our VAT returns under Making Tax Digital, including the construction reverse charge.
One system change and the control you added with it.
Your advert says you are adding a second company to the group next year, and I prepared a three-company consolidation for three years before my current post. I am an ACCA member. My CV is attached. Thank you for considering my application.
Why this employer, your qualification, the CV and a short close. The advert mentions a second company joining the group, so the letter answers with consolidation work Marta has already done. When an advert names the companies you would cover, match it with your own.