How to write a Finance CV

The conventions below are the ones this field actually uses. They are what the builder applies when you pick Finance / Accounting, and what the rating checks a finished CV against.

What it must contain

Leave any of these out and the CV reads as incomplete to someone who hires in this field:

Work experience — Quantify what you controlled: AUM, budget, transaction volume, audit scope.
Education

The order to put them in

Order is not cosmetic. What sits at the top is what gets read before someone decides whether to keep reading.

Professional summary
Qualifications
Work experience
Education
Skills
Achievements
Languages
Licences & registrations

Section by section

Qualifications — CA, CFA, CPA, ACCA and their level or year belong at the top - they are the first filter.

What to put numbers on

The single most common reason a CV in this field reads as weak is that nothing in it is measured. These are the figures that mean something here:

AUM · budget · revenue · cost saving · transaction volume · audit scope

Verbs that carry weight

Openers like “responsible for” and “worked on” describe a job description rather than a person. In this field these do the work instead:

Audited · Reconciled · Forecast · Reduced · Managed · Advised · Closed

Length

1 to 2 pages is normal for this field.

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Free, no account, and nothing is uploaded — the builder runs in your browser and the CV never leaves it.