Accountant Resume Example
An entry-level staff accountant two years into industry, with three CPA sections passed and a hand in shortening the month-end close.
A fictional resume written by our team. The person, employers and numbers are invented; the tools, licenses and schools are real.
Why it works
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“Staff accountant two years into industry, closing the books for 3 entities in NetSuite under US GAAP. Passed FAR, AUD and REG on the CPA exam, with BAR scheduled for January 2027.”
States CPA progress section by section with a date, the first thing an accounting reviewer checks, plus the ERP and the entity count.
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“Close 3 entities monthly in NetSuite, about 2,400 journal lines, and helped cut the close from 9 days to 6”
Gives entity count, system, volume and close length in days, the scale measures used in industry accounting.
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“Rebuilt the intercompany reconciliation as a standing template, clearing a $38K unreconciled balance”
Leaves the process better than it was found, with a dollar figure on the cleanup, which separates this from keying entries.
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“Reconcile 42 balance sheet accounts monthly, with zero audit adjustments to any of them in the FY2025 audit”
A clean audit is the outside check on the work, about as close to a reference as an accountant's resume gets.
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“Tested revenue and AP controls for 4 audit clients in manufacturing and nonprofit, documenting 120+ samples”
In public accounting the scope measure is clients and industries, so the internship uses that one instead of entities.
How it scored
We ran this example through the same free roast you can use, three times, and kept the middle result. The roast ranks a resume against a typical applicant pile and grades hard: even a resume with a number in nearly every bullet usually lands in the B range.
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Harper Vance Staff Accountant Minneapolis, MN | harper.vance@example.com SUMMARY Staff accountant two years into industry, closing the books for 3 entities in NetSuite under US GAAP. Passed FAR, AUD and REG on the CPA exam, with BAR scheduled for January 2027. EXPERIENCE Staff Accountant, Northgate Medical Supply | Aug 2024 - Present - Close 3 entities monthly in NetSuite, about 2,400 journal lines, and helped cut the close from 9 days to 6 - Rebuilt the intercompany reconciliation as a standing template, clearing a $38K unreconciled balance - Reconcile 42 balance sheet accounts monthly, with zero audit adjustments to any of them in the FY2025 audit - Prepared 64 PBC requests for the FY2025 external audit, all delivered by the agreed date - Automated the prepaid amortization schedule in Excel, removing 5 hours of manual entries a month Audit Intern, Halvorsen and Pike LLP | Jan 2024 - Apr 2024 - Tested revenue and AP controls for 4 audit clients in manufacturing and nonprofit, documenting 120+ samples - Drafted cash and fixed asset workpapers for 2 nonprofit audits, cleared by the senior on first review EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS B.S. Accounting, University of Minnesota, 2024 CPA exam: FAR, AUD and REG passed (2025), BAR scheduled Jan 2027 SKILLS NetSuite, US GAAP, Account reconciliation, Intercompany accounting, FloQast, Excel (pivot tables, XLOOKUP)
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