Detail-oriented accounting graduate (B.S., Accounting) with internship experience posting journal entries and reconciling accounts in QuickBooks and NetSuite. Reconciled 15+ GL accounts monthly and cut reporting errors 20% by standardizing a close checklist. Seeking a staff accountant role to grow in general ledger and financial reporting.
Entry-level accountant with a strong GAAP foundation and hands-on Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, macros). Supported month-end close for a 3-entity portfolio and cleared a $60K backlog of unreconciled transactions during busy season. Eager to contribute to a corporate accounting team.
Staff Accountant with 4 years owning full-cycle month-end close across three entities in NetSuite. Reconciled $42M in monthly activity with zero unposted items at audit and cut close time from 10 to 6 business days. Skilled in GAAP, AP/AR, journal entries, and variance analysis.
Staff Accountant with 5 years in AP/AR and general ledger accounting for a mid-market manufacturer. Processed 1,200+ vendor invoices monthly at 99.4% accuracy and identified $143K in previously unmatched transactions. CPA candidate proficient in SAP and Excel.
Senior Accountant with 8 years leading month-end and year-end close, consolidations, and audit support for a $500M-revenue company. Cut close cycle from 11 to 7 days and reduced audit findings 30% by strengthening internal controls. CPA with deep GAAP, SOX, and NetSuite expertise.
Senior Accountant and team lead with 9 years in financial reporting and FP&A support. Delivered monthly forecasts within 2% of actuals and reconciled $2.1M in intercompany discrepancies annually. CPA and CMA experienced automating reconciliations in BlackLine and Excel.
Career-changer with a decade in banking operations, now a staff accountant after completing a B.S. in Accounting and passing two CPA exam sections. Combines strong financial-controls and data-reconciliation experience with new fluency in GAAP close and NetSuite. Eager to apply analytical rigor to corporate accounting.
Writing a summary that lands
Do
- Lead bullets with three number types: close-cycle days, dollar scope of the accounts you own, and reconciliation or variance counts (e.g., "cut close from 11 to 7 days").
- Name the ERP and tools exactly as the posting does — NetSuite, SAP, QuickBooks, Excel, BlackLine — because accounting ATS keyword matching is literal.
- Put GAAP, month-end close, general ledger, and reconciliation high in your summary and skills; these are the top keywords ATS filters screen for.
- List your CPA/CMA status (or candidate / exam progress) near the top — many controller and senior roles filter on credential first.
- Keep it one clean single-column page; spell out AP/AR, SOX, and GL as both acronyms and full terms so parsers catch every variant.
Avoid
- Listing duties ("responsible for reconciliations") instead of outcomes with numbers — days-to-close, dollars reconciled, findings cut.
- Omitting GAAP, general ledger, and month-end close keywords, the top reasons accounting resumes get filtered before a human reads them.
- Using a two-column or graphic template that hides GL, AP/AR, and software keywords from older ERP-era ATS parsers.
- Writing "accounting software" instead of naming QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP, or Excel the posting actually asks for.
- Vague scope claims ("handled large accounts") with no dollar figures, entity counts, or reconciliation volumes to back them.