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An assistant accountant or accounting technician CV should show the accounts you keep and how accurately: ledgers, reconciliations, VAT returns, month-end journals and the systems you use. Give your AAT or ACCA level and where you are in your studies, because employers shortlist on both.

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Ravi Mehta
Assistant Accountant
Luton · 07700 900170 · ravi.mehta@example.com

Profile

AAT-qualified assistant accountant with four years in a manufacturing finance team. Prepares month-end journals and reconciliations, quarterly VAT returns and management account schedules, and keeps the purchase ledger clean. Studying ACCA, with four exams passed. Looking for an assistant or management accountant role.

Experience

Assistant Accountant, Chiltern Precision Ltd, Luton May 2023–present

Prepare month-end accruals, prepayments and journals, and reconcile eight balance sheet accounts each month.

Prepare quarterly VAT returns for review and submission through Making Tax Digital software.

Produce departmental cost reports for the management accounts pack by the fourth working day.

Moved supplier statement reconciliations to a monthly routine, clearing 40 old queries.

Accounts Assistant, Chiltern Precision Ltd, Luton 2022–2023

Processed about 500 purchase invoices a month and ran the weekly payment run.

Qualifications

ACCA, four exams passed, studying Financial Reporting 2025–present

AAT Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting 2023

A levels: Mathematics, Economics, Business 2021

Skills

Month-end close, accruals and prepayments

Balance sheet and bank reconciliations

VAT returns

Sage 200, Xero and Excel (pivot tables, lookups)

Fictional example for an assistant 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
Process and pay invoicesAbout 500 purchase invoices a month and the weekly payment run
Prepare and check ledger balances and other monthly accountsMonth-end journals and eight balance sheet reconciliations a month
Calculate tax and VAT returnsQuarterly VAT returns prepared for review
Collect data and figures for management reportsDepartmental cost reports for the management accounts pack
Update records on computer accounting systemsSage 200 and Xero
Monitor company expensesCost reports by department, and cleared supplier queries

The left column follows the National Careers Service job profile for a accounting technician. If the advert you are answering describes a duty in other words, use its words for work you have actually done.

Inside this example
  • Profile: 43 words here
  • Experience: 90 words here
  • Qualifications: 25 words here
  • Skills: 24 words here

How to write yours

01

Put your qualification level first

AAT or ACCA level and exams passed are how finance teams shortlist. Give them in the profile and under Qualifications.

02

Name the month-end tasks

Accruals, prepayments, reconciliations and VAT are the core of the job. List which you do yourself and which you prepare for review.

03

Give volumes and deadlines

Invoices a month and “by the fourth working day” show the scale and the pace.

04

Show one clean-up

Clearing old queries or improving a reconciliation routine shows care for accuracy that employers look for.

Checks and qualifications to mention

  • GCSEs and A levels. Employers will look for up to 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C), including English and maths; A level business studies, maths or economics can also be useful (National Careers Service).
  • AAT and ACCA. The National Careers Service points to the Association of Accounting Technicians and the ACCA for courses. Give your level and exams passed, and say if you are studying.
  • Apprenticeships. An Accounts or Finance Assistant apprenticeship goes in with its level and year.

One page suits most assistant accountant roles. Keep systems and qualifications easy to find; finance recruiters scan for both.

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