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Accounting managers read for accuracy, speed and control: how fast you close, how clean your reconciliations are, and which systems you run. Recruiters search for GAAP, the ERP by name and certifications like CPA.

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Grace Kim's accountant resume, typeset in the Serif template

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Grace Kim
Senior Accountant, CPA
grace.kim@example.com · (214) 555-0187 · Dallas, TX · linkedin.com/in/gracekim
Summary

Certified Public Accountant with six years in corporate accounting at manufacturing and SaaS companies. Shortened the month-end close from nine days to five, owns account reconciliation for $180M in revenue, and runs NetSuite and Excel reporting.

Experience
Redstone ManufacturingMay 2022 – Present
Senior AccountantDallas, TX
  • Reduced the month-end close from nine days to five by automating 40 journal entries in NetSuite.
  • Owned account reconciliation for $180M in annual revenue with no material audit findings in three years.
  • Delivered financial reporting under generally accepted accounting principles for a $250M lender review.
Clearpath SaaSJul 2019 – Apr 2022
Staff AccountantDallas, TX
  • Managed accounts payable for 600 vendors, cutting late payments by 70% with a new approval workflow.
  • Built Excel models for revenue recognition across 4,000 subscriptions, supporting the first external audit.
  • Resolved a $90K historical variance while reconciling 25 bank accounts each month in Excel.
Skills

Accounting: Generally accepted accounting principles, Account reconciliation, Financial reporting, Accounts payable

Systems: NetSuite, QuickBooks, Excel

Education
Southern Methodist University2015 – 2019
B.B.A. Accounting
Certifications
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)2021
Texas State Board of Public Accountancy

Why this accountant resume works

The summary

Certified Public Accountant with six years in corporate accounting at manufacturing and SaaS companies. Shortened the month-end close from nine days to five, owns account reconciliation for $180M in revenue, and runs NetSuite and Excel reporting.

The certification comes first because it is a filter; the close time and the scale of reconciliations follow because they are what a controller hires for.

Bullets, before and after

The same work, described first the way most resumes do it, then the way this one does.

Before

Responsible for month-end close.

After

Reduced the month-end close from nine days to five by automating 40 journal entries in NetSuite.

Speed is the headline metric of an accounting team, and the ERP is named.

Before

Did reconciliations.

After

Owned account reconciliation for $180M in annual revenue with no material audit findings in three years.

Scale plus accuracy — the two things a controller cannot afford to get wrong.

Before

Handled accounts payable.

After

Managed accounts payable for 600 vendors, cutting late payments by 70% with a new approval workflow.

Volume and an improvement she designed, not just a duty she performed.

Skills recruiters search for

List the ones you could be interviewed on — and show the most important in a bullet, where they count for about twice as much.

Accounting
  • GAAP
  • Month-end close
  • Account reconciliation
  • Revenue recognition
  • Accruals
Systems
  • NetSuite
  • QuickBooks
  • SAP
  • Excel
Controls
  • Audit support
  • SOX
  • Internal controls

What the scorer would still say

Even a strong resume gets notes. These are the scorer’s own, unedited.

  • Required skills sit in older roles. Excel appear only in roles that ended a while ago. If you have used them since, say so in a recent bullet.

Questions

Where should a CPA go on an accountant resume?

In three places: after your name in the header, in the first sentence of the summary, and in a Certifications section with the issuing board and year.

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