Staff Accountant Resume Examples
Years of Experience
- Example #1
- Example #2
- Example #3
Marcie Verbinsky
(231) 495-5093 | [email protected] | Bozeman, MT 12345
Profile
Accounting Professional with 2+ years of experience. Skilled at preparing financial and annual reports for midsize organizations. Equally effective working solo or on a team.
Key Skills
- Advanced Mathematics
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Oracle NetSuite
- Reporting & Documentation
- Team Collaboration
Professional Experience
Junior Accountant, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT | October 2020 to Present
- One of 3 accountants charged with maintaining accurate financial records and data
- Provide office assistance as needed to students, faculty, and staff members
- Process accounts payable and receivable, ensuring accuracy and paying vendors on time
Highlight:
- Helped raise department’s accuracy rate from 94.2% to 97.6%
Accounting Intern, J.D. Markel & Associates, Portland, ME | January 2020 to May 2020
[Midsize accounting firm]
- Member of 4-person accounting team
- Liaised with clients to manage their bookkeeping needs
- Prepared spreadsheets for clients’ annual and quarterly reports
- Wrote memorandums and formal letters to clients, summarizing financial statements
Office Assistant, Hannaford’s Grocery Store, Bar Harbor, ME | Summers 2017 to 2019
[Retail location taking in $4.2M annually]
- Facilitated daily office and bookkeeping functions
- Helped draft weekly, monthly, and yearly financial reports for the store owners
- Prepared accounts receivable materials, under guidance of in-house accountant
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS) – Accounting, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME | 2020
- Four-year member of Accounting Club
- Participated in a volunteer tax-a-thon helping lower-income individuals prepare their taxes
Paul Hamlin
(584) 304-0185 | [email protected] | Montgomery, AL 58395
Profile
Dedicated Staff Accountant with 4+ years of corporate experience. Focused on helping find new ways to streamline and improve accounting procedures.
Key Skills
- Account Reconciliation
- Accounts Receivable
- Advanced Mathematics
- Financial Report Preparation
- Internal Audits
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Invoice Processing
- Sage Business Cloud Accounting
Professional Experience
Staff Accountant, Bell Media, Montgomery, AL | October 2018 to Present
- Create financial plans and forecasts as member of a 3-person accounting team
- Perform internal and external audits regularly
- Reconcile monthly totals for review by senior managers
Highlight:
- Co-launched NetSuite accounting software and helped train colleagues on effective use of the new system
Accounting Intern, H&R Block, Montgomery, AL | January 2017 to April 2017
- Helped prepare tax returns for individual clients and small businesses
- Completed 110+ returns during 3-month tax season
- Praised by business franchise owner for high efficiency and service quality
Education & Credentials
Bachelor of Science (BS) – Accounting, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL | May 2018
CPA | December 2018
Hugh DelForte
(832) 487-1839 | [email protected] | Glencoe, IL 40282
Profile
Staff Accountant with 15+ years of corporate experience. Ensure utmost accuracy in all financial work. Draw on strong knowledge of accounting software systems including Intuit QuickBooks and Xero. Promptly reconcile accounts and perform payroll functions.
Professional Experience
Staff Accountant, Deloitte LLP, Chicago, IL | July 2016 to Present
- Member of a 12-person team carrying out various finance and accounting functions
- Manage monthly internal audits for corporate units
- Help prepare corporate tax documents
- Reconcile statements and invoices as needed
- Train and mentor up to 3 junior accountants annually
Staff Accountant, Boeing Corporation, Chicago, IL | November 2010 to July 2016
- Researched, reviewed, and reconciled financial statements and reports
- Analyzed and mitigated compliance risk/errors
- Created internal reports and summaries analyzing budget vs. actual results
- Fostered productive collaboration with internal clients and suppliers
Junior Accountant, Motorola Solutions, Chicago, IL | October 2007 to September 2010
- Helped manage payroll for 120+ employees
- Processed accounts payable and receivable
- Investigated and resolved financial statement errors
Education & Credentials
Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business Administration, Accounting, University of Phoenix | 2007
AICPA
- Corporation Taxation Certificate | 2016
- Payroll Management Certificate | 2007
Skills
- Corporate Tax Law
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Data Gathering & Analysis
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Microsoft Office Suite (advanced Excel)
- Reporting & Documentation
- SAP
- Statement Reconciliation
Tips for Writing a Better Staff Accountant Resume
Keep your format clean and simple
For finance and accounting professionals, a conservative resume format is usually best. Try using a traditional serif font like Century or Cambria for your body text and a clean sans serif font like Calibri for your subject headings. Use color sparingly, if at all. Avoid fancier Microsoft Word format options like WordArt, Tables, and Text Boxes (which can muck up ATS anyway).
This conservative approach is well-suited to your field, but it’s also often the best way to display your career information. As Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Avoid non-finance jargon
Any time you write a long word when a short word would do, that’s jargon. A classic example: People use the words “utilize” or “utilization” when they should use “use.”
Jargon is especially tempting in finance and accounting fields, which have plenty of specialized terms (like “amortization”) with no shorter equivalent. These terms deserve a spot on your resume, as long as they’re relevant to your goals. The problem is when you let words that should be short and simple become words (often ending in “-tion” or “-ment”) that are long and clunky. A few more usual suspects:
delay 🡪 postponement
duty 🡪 responsibility
launch 🡪 implementation
law 🡪 regulation
skill 🡪 capability
Whenever you find yourself using a long word, stop and ask: Is there a shorter synonym? This habit will help keep your resume clear and concise.
Example:
Good
Used strong math skills to find viable amortization schedules and methods.
Bad
Utilized advanced math capabilities to identify potentially effective amortization schedules and methodologies.
Use your Profile to show how you solve accounting issues
What is your approach to isolating and solving a company’s finance or accounting problems? And how do you feel that approach makes you successful in your field? What advanced knowledge do you draw upon to help solve those issues? By giving answers to these questions in your Profile, you can express your role’s important problem-solving aspect. For a detailed guide to writing your resume’s intro, read: How to Write a Resume Summary in Six Easy Steps
Common Key Skills for Staff Accountant Resumes
You can improve your resume by adding keywords.
That’s because most hiring companies now use an applicant tracking system (ATS), which scans each submitted resume for keywords relevant to the job opening at hand. When the company’s ATS finds a resume with many relevant keywords, it flags the document for the hiring manager.
To make your resume ATS-friendly, add a keyword-rich “Skills” or “Expertise” section (as in the examples above). Here are some common keywords for staff accountants:
Key Skills and Proficiencies | |
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Accounts Payable & Receivable | Budget Analysis |
Complex Problem-Solving | Cost Accounting |
Cross-Functional Collaboration | Data Gathering & Analysis |
Invoice Processing | Microsoft Excel |
Monthly Reconciliations | Payroll Administration |
Process Improvement | Reporting & Documentation |
Intuit QuickBooks | Tax Preparation |
Common Action Verbs for Staff Accountant Resumes
One of the most common resume mistakes is using too few verbs. You may repeat the same generic verb (say, “Manage”) many times, or rely on passive phrases like “Responsible for” or “Accountable for”. These tendencies can distract your reader and fail to show the dynamic nature of your work. The following list will help you mix up the verbs on your staff accountant resume:
Action Verbs | |
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Analyze | Automate |
Complete | Conduct |
Correct | Create |
Develop | Forecast |
Generate | Identify |
Isolate | Maintain |
Manage | Oversee |
Process | Reconcile |
Resolve | Restructure |
Revamp | Uncover |
How to Align Your Resume With a Job Posting
For each job in your Experience section, consider adding a company description. You can place this description in brackets right next to or below the company name. It also helps to match formatting. For instance, if you’ve italicized the company name, italicize the company description too.
Company descriptions let you show any similarities between your past and desired employers. For instance, maybe you’ve worked for companies of a similar size or in the same industry. Or perhaps you’ve worked at organizations with a similar core mission or leadership philosophy. By working these details into your descriptions, you can make your resume that much more relevant to the job at hand.