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An accountant's CV should open with your qualification, then show the numbers you own (month-end, budgets, forecasts), the systems you use and one decision your analysis changed. This example is a CIMA-qualified management accountant in a manufacturing and distribution business. For an AAT-level role, see the assistant accountant example.

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Helen Okoro
Management Accountant
Cambridge · 07700 900187 · helen.okoro@example.com · linkedin.com/in/helen-okoro-example

Profile

CIMA-qualified management accountant with seven years in manufacturing and distribution finance teams. Runs the month-end close and management accounts for a £48 million business, builds the annual budget and quarterly forecasts with budget holders, and turns the numbers into decisions. Looking for a senior management accountant or finance business partner role.

Experience

Management Accountant, Fenland Packaging Ltd, Cambridge 2022–present

Run the month-end close and management accounts pack for a £48 million business, reported by working day five.

Build the annual budget and quarterly forecasts with eight budget holders, and explain variances to the board each month.

Found that two loss-making delivery routes were hidden in a regional average; the routes were merged, saving £180,000 a year.

Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, the fixed asset register and audit files, and manage one assistant accountant.

Assistant Management Accountant, Ely Valley Foods, Ely 2019–2022

Prepared product costings and stock valuations and supported the move to a new finance system.

Qualifications

Chartered Management Accountant, CIMA (ACMA, CGMA) 2023

BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance, 2:1, University of the Cam Valley 2015–2018

Skills

Month-end close and management reporting

Budgets, forecasts and variance analysis

Product costing and stock valuation

Sage Intacct, Power BI and advanced Excel

Fictional example for an accountant. Every person and employer in it is invented. Replace every detail with your own.

What finance teams look for, and where this CV shows it

The job asks you toWhere this CV shows it
Prepare financial statements and accountsThe monthly management accounts pack and balance sheet reconciliations
Monitor spending and budgetsThe annual budget with eight budget holders
Analyse the company's financial performanceMonthly variance explanations to the board
Make business decisionsMerging two loss-making delivery routes, saving £180,000 a year
Forecast and plan future spending and ways to reduce costsQuarterly forecasts and product costings

The left column follows the National Careers Service job profile for a management accountant.

Inside this example
  • Profile: 51 words here
  • Experience: 112 words here
  • Qualifications: 22 words here
  • Skills: 26 words here

How to write yours

01

Qualification first

Put your body and letters (ACMA, ACCA, ACA) in the profile, or your exams passed if you are still studying.

02

Say what you own

Name the reports and processes that are yours, with their deadline, not just the team's.

03

One decision with a number

Finance managers hire accountants who change decisions. One saving or margin gain shows it.

04

Name the systems

Finance adverts list systems by name; give yours, and your Excel level in plain words.

Checks for an accountant's CV

  • Routes in. The National Careers Service lists a degree followed by a graduate scheme, apprenticeships such as Professional Accountancy or Taxation Technician (Level 4) and Accountancy and Taxation Professional (Level 7), and studying a professional qualification while working. Give the one you took, with dates.
  • Part-qualified. Write the exams you have passed and the one you are studying, as the assistant accountant example does.
  • Confidential figures. Round any figure your employer has not published, or give it as a percentage.

Two pages are fine for a qualified accountant; keep the first page to your profile and current role, and cut older roles to one line each.

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