What should a chartered accountant resume include?
Recruiters hiring CAs in India first check ICAI membership status, the attempt record and what the articleship actually covered. After that they look for named standards and laws (Ind AS, GST, Income-tax Act), the ERP used and measurable outcomes such as close timelines, audit observations resolved or tax demands reduced. Two clean pages with numbers beat a list of duties.
Skills recruiters look for:
- Statutory audit
- Ind AS financial reporting
- GST compliance and reconciliation
- Direct tax and tax audit
- Internal audit and IFC testing
From our sample resumes:
- 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.