Fresher chartered accountant resume example
Srinivas Iyengar · Chartered Accountant (Audit Associate) · Chennai, Tamil Nadu. A sample person — replace every detail with your own.
Professional summary
Newly qualified Chartered Accountant who cleared both groups of CA Final together, with a three-year articleship focused on statutory audits of manufacturing and trading companies. Comfortable with Ind AS disclosures, CARO reporting, vouching and sampling in Excel, and GST reconciliations. Looking for an audit associate role in a mid-sized or large assurance practice.
Skills
- Statutory audit
- Ind AS
- CARO reporting
- GST reconciliation
- Tally Prime
- Advanced Excel
- Audit sampling
- Working papers
Experience
- Handled statutory audit fieldwork for 14 private limited companies, covering revenue, inventory, fixed assets and related-party transactions.
- Drafted CARO observations and notes to accounts for six Ind AS clients, all accepted by the engagement partner with minor edits.
- Reconciled GSTR-2B with purchase registers for 20 SME clients monthly, recovering input tax credit worth over ₹18 lakh.
- Attended physical stock verification at three factory sites and documented valuation differences for management discussion.
- Verified advances classification and NPA provisioning at four branches against RBI income recognition and asset classification norms.
- Prepared long form audit report schedules and flagged documentation gaps in 30 loan files for branch follow-up.
Education
Certifications and registrations
- Associate Member, ICAI (ACA)
- ICAI Advanced IT Training and Management Skills course
Projects
- Audit checklist automation — built an Excel template for sampling and ticking that cut working paper preparation time by roughly a third
Languages
English · Tamil · Hindi
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Experienced chartered accountant resume example
Megha Agarwal · Financial Controller · Kolkata, West Bengal. A sample person — replace every detail with your own.
Professional summary
Chartered Accountant with eight years across Big-firm assurance and industry finance, now controlling accounts for a consumer goods manufacturer. Runs month-end close, statutory audit coordination, GST and direct tax compliance, and board MIS. Known for shortening close cycles, tightening working capital and building finance teams that hand over clean, reviewed numbers on time.
Skills
- Month-end close
- SAP FICO
- Ind AS reporting
- Working capital
- Budgeting and MIS
- GST compliance
- Internal controls
- Team leadership
- Power BI
Experience
- Reduced month-end close from 12 working days to 5 by standardising journals, accrual schedules and plant-level reconciliations in SAP.
- Lead a finance team of nine covering accounts payable, receivables, fixed assets, costing and statutory compliance across three plants.
- Cut receivable days from 68 to 49 through distributor credit reviews and weekly collection dashboards shared with sales heads.
- Coordinated statutory and internal audits with zero qualifications in the auditor’s report for four consecutive financial years.
- Prepared quarterly Ind AS financial statements and segment disclosures within the timelines required under SEBI listing regulations.
- Implemented Ind AS 116 lease accounting for 40 warehouse and office leases, documenting judgements for audit committee review.
- Handled income-tax assessments and transfer pricing documentation support, resolving two scrutiny cases without additional demand.
- Ran fieldwork for statutory audits of manufacturing and infrastructure clients with revenues between ₹200 crore and ₹900 crore.
- Supervised three article assistants and reviewed their working papers against firm methodology before manager sign-off.
- Tested revenue recognition and inventory valuation controls, raising eleven management letter points that clients later fixed.
Education
Certifications and registrations
- Associate Member, ICAI (ACA)
- ICAI Certificate Course on Indirect Taxes
- ICAI Certificate Course on Ind AS
Projects
- Plant costing revamp — introduced standard costing with variance reports that exposed ₹2.4 crore of annual material wastage
- Cash-flow forecasting model — thirteen-week rolling forecast adopted by the CFO for bank limit negotiations
Languages
English · Hindi · Bengali
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Why these resumes work
- Srinivas’s resume states that both CA Final groups were cleared together, a detail recruiters screen for early, and his articleship bullets name CARO, Ind AS and bank audit work instead of vague “audit exposure”.
- Megha’s close-cycle line gives a before-and-after figure, from 12 working days down to 5, which tells a hiring CFO exactly what improvement to expect.
- Both resumes separate audit, tax and reporting work into distinct bullets, so a reader looking for GST or Ind AS strength can find it within seconds.
- The experienced resume keeps the early audit senior role to two bullets, giving more space to the controller job that matches the target title.
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