Fresher accountant resume example
Payal Jain · Junior Accountant · Ahmedabad, Gujarat. A sample person — replace every detail with your own.
Professional summary
B.Com graduate with a one-year articleship-style traineeship at a small accounting and tax practice, keeping books for traders and service firms in Tally Prime. Handles purchase and sales entries, bank reconciliation, GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B preparation and TDS working under supervision. Looking for a junior accountant role in a manufacturing or trading company.
Skills
- Tally Prime
- Purchase and sales entries
- Bank reconciliation
- GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B preparation
- TDS working
- Accounts payable follow-up
- Advanced Excel
- Petty cash and vouchers
- Zoho Books basics
Experience
- Maintained books for 14 clients in Tally Prime, posting around 600 vouchers a month for sales, purchases and expenses.
- Prepared monthly bank reconciliations and cleared old unmatched entries by checking with clients’ bank statements and cheque registers.
- Drafted GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data for nine clients and matched purchase credits with GSTR-2B before filing by the senior.
- Computed TDS on contractor and rent payments and kept challan records ready for quarterly returns.
- Raised GST invoices and delivery challans for wholesale buyers and kept the daily cash book.
- Sent weekly outstanding lists to the owner and phoned buyers on overdue payments.
Education
Certifications and registrations
- Tally Prime with GST, authorised training partner course
- Certificate in GST Practice, short course
Projects
- Expense tracker — built an Excel template for a client to classify expenses by GST rate, cutting month-end queries
Languages
Gujarati · Hindi · English
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Experienced accountant resume example
Ramesh Bansal · Senior Accountant · Ludhiana, Punjab. A sample person — replace every detail with your own.
Professional summary
Accountant with ten years of experience in manufacturing companies, handling the full cycle from purchase entries to finalisation of accounts with the auditors. Manages payables, receivables, GST and TDS compliance, payroll inputs, stock valuation and monthly MIS. Currently leads a team of three in a bicycle parts manufacturer using SAP Business One alongside Tally.
Skills
- Month-end closing
- Accounts payable and receivable
- GST returns and reconciliation
- TDS returns
- Payroll, PF and ESI inputs
- Inventory valuation
- Audit support
- MIS reports
- SAP Business One and Tally Prime
- Team supervision
Experience
- Close the books every month within five working days, including accruals, depreciation and stock adjustments.
- Reconcile GST input credit with GSTR-2B monthly and recovered credits that suppliers had not uploaded on time.
- Manage payables for about 300 vendors, scheduling payments by due date and MSME limits.
- Prepare monthly MIS on sales, margins and debtor ageing for the directors.
- Coordinate statutory and tax audits, preparing schedules and answering auditor queries.
- Maintained sales, purchase and job-work records in Tally and reconciled dealer ledgers every quarter.
- Processed monthly payroll inputs for 180 workers, including overtime, PF and ESI deductions.
- Cut debtor days by sending statements and reminders to dealers before each festive season.
- Posted daily cash and bank entries and handled petty cash with voucher approvals.
- Prepared e-way bills and GST invoices for interstate dispatches.
Education
Certifications and registrations
- Certificate in SAP Business One Financials, training partner
- Diploma in Taxation Laws, university evening course
Projects
- Vendor master clean-up — removed duplicate vendors and fixed PAN and GSTIN errors, reducing TDS mismatches
- Debtor ageing dashboard — built an Excel report that directors now review every Monday
Languages
Punjabi · Hindi · English
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Why these resumes work
- Payal’s voucher count and client count show volume, and the GSTR-2B matching line proves she understands credits, not just data entry in Tally.
- Ramesh states his closing timeline and vendor numbers, two concrete markers a finance manager uses to judge an accountant’s grip on the books.
- Neither sample claims to be a chartered accountant; they show audit support and compliance work instead, which is the honest way for non-CA accountants to present themselves.
- Payroll, PF and ESI inputs appear in the manufacturing roles because factory employers expect their accountant to handle worker-related statutory deductions.
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