ACCA-qualified accountant with six years across practice and in-house finance for manufacturing and retail businesses. Runs a five-day month-end close, quarterly VAT returns and year-end audit files that come back without adjustments. Most recently automated bank reconciliations in Xero, saving 30 hours a month, and cut debt over 90 days by 46%.
ACCA Qualification (Member) · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants2023
Xero Advisor Certification · Xero2021
Projects
Bank-feed automation
2024
Set up Xero bank rules and a reconciliation checklist that cut manual matching from 40 to 10 hours a month.
Languages
English — Native
Gujarati — Fluent (spoken)
Three summary options
Start from the one closest to where you are now.
Part-qualified
Part-qualified ACCA student, 9 of 13 exams passed, with two years as an accounts assistant. Handles purchase and sales ledgers for 600 invoices a month, bank reconciliations and supplier statements without backlogs. Looking for a trainee accountant role with study support.
Practice to industry
Accountant with five years in practice, preparing accounts and tax returns for 50+ owner-managed businesses. Ready to move in-house, bringing fast and accurate year-end work, clear client communication and hands-on experience of moving firms from desktop software to cloud accounting.
Financial controller
Financial controller with twelve years in retail and distribution. Leads a team of seven, owns the close, cash forecasting and audit, and delivered a new ERP on time. Cut the close from eight days to four and freed £1.2m of working capital through tighter stock control.
Keywords to include
Use the ones that are true for you, inside real sentences.
Month-end close
Management accounts
VAT returns
Bank reconciliation
Accruals
Year-end audit
Xero
Sage
Excel
ACCA
What recruiters look for
Tips for this role, with the kind of numbers that count.
Measure the close, not the tasks
Speed and accuracy are what finance managers are buying. "Cut month-end from nine working days to five" or "no audit adjustments two years running" lands far harder than "responsible for month-end".
Give the size of the books
Turnover, number of entities, invoices per month or the size of your client portfolio tell a reader what level you work at. A £28m manufacturer and a sole trader need very different accountants, so say which you handled.
Be exact about qualification status
Write "ACCA member", "ACCA affiliate" or "part-qualified, 9 of 13 exams" rather than just "ACCA". Recruiters filter on status, and vague wording makes them assume the lower one.
List the software you really used
Name the systems, such as Xero, Sage 50, Sage 200 or QuickBooks, and describe your Excel level in concrete terms: pivot tables, XLOOKUP, Power Query. Businesses switch ledgers often, so a migration you ran is worth its own bullet.
Show money you saved or found
Recovered overpaid VAT, lower aged debt, better supplier terms or a duplicate payment run you caught: these are the lines that make a finance director pick up the phone. Put the figure in pounds or as a percentage.
Make this CV yours
Answer one question at a time; the assistant fills each section and never invents numbers.
If you are part-qualified, yes: say how many exams you have passed, which level you have reached and when you expect to finish. Once you are a full member, a single line with the year you qualified is enough, and the individual exam names can go.
How do I move from practice to an in-house role?
Reframe client work as business support. Instead of listing clients, show depth: management accounts you prepared, forecasts you helped build or a system migration you led. In-house hiring managers want proof that you can own one set of books month after month, not only finish year-ends.
Is a management accountant CV different from a financial accountant CV?
The core is the same, but the emphasis shifts. Management accountants should lead with reporting, budgets, variance analysis and the decisions their numbers supported. Financial accountants should lead with statutory accounts, audit, tax and compliance. Mirror the wording of the job advert.
