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  • Crafting a Winning Finance Manager CV

    Crafting a Winning Finance Manager CV: Essential Tips and Examples

    • 22 Mar 2024
    • Evie Courtier

    Your CV must serve as a comprehensive yet concise roadmap of your professional journey, underscoring pertinent skills, experiences and qualifications that make you an ideal candidate to steer a company's financial strategy. This article dives into an array of examples, tips, and templates to help you create a compelling Finance Manager CV.

  • Assistant Accountant CV Example and Tips

    Assistant Accountant CV Example and Tips

    • 19 Feb 2024
    • Evie Courtier

    While there is no linear approach to writing your Assistant Accountant CV, there is a general layout that should be followed in order to provide recruiters with the information they need in a clear and concise manner. Discover our 'Assistant Accountant CV Example and Tips' to get you started.

  • Top 5 Tips for Writing a Finance Cover Letter

    Top 5 Tips for Writing a Finance Cover Letter

    • 15 Feb 2024
    • Evie Courtier

    A finance cover letter must be a myriad of things; concise, professional, yet enticing to the recruiter, and/or employer. Read our 5 tips on how to curate a successful cover letter.

  • Finance CV Tips

    Five Steps to a Top-Tier Finance CV | Examples, Tips and Templates

    • 23 Nov 2023
    • Anne Sadler

    Is your CV sabotaging your job search? Here are five finance CV fundamentals to help you secure a place on the shortlist for your next finance and accountancy job.

  • Top Finance and Accountancy Skills to Develop and Nurture

    • 23 Oct 2023

    When job hunting you need to know what recruiters and employers will be looking for on the CVs of their prospective finance staff. GAAPweb have put together a list of the top finance and accountancy skills to develop and nurture in order to excel in your career.

  • Accountant CV Template

    Accountant CV Template

    • 1 Sep 2023
    • Evie Courtier

    GAAPweb have provided an Accountant CV template for you to follow, building your own CV to aid your accountancy career.

  • PQ CV template

    CV Template for Part Qualified Accountants

    • 13 Feb 2023
    • Evie Courtier

    Use our recommended Part Qualified Accountant CV to build your own CV, furthering your Accountancy career.

  • Starting a New Venture: The Ins and Outs of Job Resignation

    • 8 Nov 2022
    • Evie Courtier

    A guide on how to professionally resign from your current job role.

  • How to Write the Perfect Graduate Accounting and Finance CV

    • 20 Jan 2022
    • Joshua Boynton

    Are you a recently qualified accountant? Follow this GAAPweb guide on how to write the perfect graduate finance CV to make sure your job applications are as strong as possible.

  • How to Optimise your CV for an Applicant Tracking System

    • 12 Aug 2021

    Many companies now automate their hiring process through an Applicant Tracking System (ATS). GAAPweb has put together a list of the do’s and don’ts to help you to get your CV past the Applicant Tracking System and into the hands of the recruiter.

  • How to Optimise Your Accountancy CV for a Covid-19 Job Hunt

    • 29 Oct 2020
    • TopCV

    In their latest guest post, the experts from TopCV offer their professional advice on how to optimise your accountancy CV for a Covid-19 job hunt.

  • Getting the most out of your GAAPweb job alerts

    • 20 Apr 2020

    There are several steps you can take to get the most out of your GAAPweb job alerts, so if you’re not being sent enough jobs or feel that the jobs you are receiving aren’t quite right, you can help us to help you by adhering to the advice in this article.

  • Financial Controller CV Tips

    • 8 Nov 2019

    Are you in the process of re-writing your CV? In this article we give some guidance on how to give your Financial Controller CV a boost.

  • Finance Director CV Tips | Templates and Examples

    • 7 Dec 2018

    Follow this GAAPweb guide of Finance Director CV tips and templates to give yourself the best chance at landing a new FD role.

  • 3 signs your finance CV needs a professional audit

    • 6 Jul 2018
    • Rikki Wimmer

    Are you making these common CV mistakes? A professional CV audit could be all you need to land your next finance role.

  • Industry or Practice?

    Industry or practice? A career ladder comparison

    • 13 Apr 2022

    Take your pick, the satisfying scope of industry or the full-tilt pace of accountancy practice? Both offer unique rewards, but which one is right for you?

  • CV Advice

    Start the year with a stand-out CV

    • 16 Jan 2017

    In a market flooded with fresh financial talent, your CV needs to be a door-opening document. Here’s how to keep it professional and straight to the point.

  • Should I Stay or Should I Go? Taking your next step after qualifying

    • 16 Mar 2016

    The most important thing to consider before anyone starts a job search is to define what are you looking to achieve out of this move? Read more...

  • Back to basics: CV writing for senior financial professionals

    • 24 Feb 2016
    • Austin Brislen, Sellick Partnership

    Putting your CV together or updating your current one can often be a daunting task, particularly for senior finance professionals who have been out of the job market for a longer period of time. It’s for this reason you should think carefully about putting together the relevant information for a winning CV.

  • Making social media work for you in your job search

    • 22 Feb 2016
    • Karen Young, Director at Hays Accountancy & Finance

    More and more employers are looking to social media to give them background information on job seekers. It’s estimated now that 90% of hiring professionals have viewed social networking profiles as part of their screening process, but social media is still an underused tool by many jobseekers.