Management Accountant CV Example Template

Our management accountant CV example helps you to clearly demonstrate your technical experience in analysis, preparing budgets and providing financial commentary. You’ll need to list your academic achievements, employment history and any relevant qualifications, as well as highlight the hard and soft skills you’ve developed throughout your education and career.

Personal Details

Example:

Evan Roberts
24 Bridge Street
London
SW1 1AB

01234 567 890 / evan.roberts@email.com

Personal Statement / Professional Summary

Keeping it to a short paragraph, mention any accounting qualifications you hold plus some of your strengths, linking them to the role of a management accountant.

Example:

While studying towards my ACCA qualification I developed my financial analysis and reporting skills as an assistant accountant. Now, with a full qualification, two years of experience as an assistant accountant and a further five as a management accountant, I am looking for a new role to which I can apply my excellent financial analysis skills, team leadership qualities and commercial acumen.

Professional Qualifications

As well as your accounting qualification, consider listing any other courses or qualifications you may have taken that are applicable to the role of a management accountant.

Key Skills

A bullet point list of the skills you have developed while working in accounting. Ensure you link generic skills such as communication or team leadership to the role of a management accountant and state how they have contributed to your success.

Example:

• Ability to draw meaningful analysis and suggest business improvements from large volumes of complex financial data, developed over seven years of preparing various reports for senior management and the wider business
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills developed as a result of preparing a monthly executive report sent to senior management at Barclays.
• Ability to build and maintain professional relationships with colleagues, clients and management – these relationships helped when persuading, influencing and negotiating.
• Leadership skills arising from the direction, training and development of finance teams.
• Strong and accurate numerical skills honed during education and used for budget forecast, reconciliations, pricing and costing, invoices etc.
• Excel skills – ability to navigate and master financial databases and systems.

Work Experience

Starting with your current or most recent job and working backwards chronologically, list the names, locations and dates of your previous employment. Also include a bullet point list of your main duties in each role.

Example:

Management Accountant
Barclays, Canary Wharf
May 2013 – present

Key Duties

• Producing accurate and timely financial analysis reports with full commentary addressing risks and suggesting improvements.
• Producing budget forecasts, bank reconciliations and invoice receipts.
• Liaising with finance and non-finance colleagues at all levels, providing them with advice and support.
• Ensuring all accounting work meets recognised UK accounting standards.
• Leading, training and supporting a large finance team.

Education History

Working backwards, list the details of your education history. Ensure to include any academic qualifications, the subject you completed them in and the grades you were awarded.

Example:

BA Hons in Accounting, 2:1
University of Manchester
2005 – 2008

A-levels in Mathematics (A), Business Studies (B) and IT (A)
Chichester College
2003 – 2005

14 A*-C GCSEs, including A* in Mathematics, Physics and English Literature
Chichester High School
1998 – 2003

 

Remember, your management accountant CV is your first impression on prospective employers and, if written properly, is your ticket to interview. Double check your spelling and grammar, use professional fonts and formats, and make sure the information you provide is relevant, true and concise – your CV shouldn’t be more than two sides of A4. Use our management accountant CV example to create your own and then search and apply for the latest management accountant jobs on GAAPweb.