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Accountant resume, 5 years experience, with a full sample
Five years from a CA firm to a company’s finance team: books closed faster, audits clean, compliance on time. Each bullet has the size of the work and what changed.
The sample
SNEHA KULKARNI
Pune, Maharashtra · sneha.kulkarni@email.com · +91 98765 43210 · linkedin.com/in/sneha-kulkarni
Summary
Accountant with 5 years across a CA firm and a manufacturing company, skilled in month-end close, GST and TDS compliance, and SAP. Cut the monthly close from 9 working days to 5.
Skills
Accounting: month-end close, GST returns, TDS, bank reconciliation, statutory audit
Tools: SAP, Tally Prime, Excel (pivot tables, Power Query)
Experience
Senior Accountant, Sahyadri Auto Components, PuneAug 2023 – present
Run the month-end close for two plants (₹180 crore turnover); cut it from 9 working days to 5 with a close checklist and Power Query reconciliations.
Led the move from Tally Prime to SAP for accounts payable; 2,500 vendor invoices a month now post without re-keying.
Prepared schedules for the statutory audit two years running, with no qualifications in the report.
Own GST returns and TDS filings for both plants; every one filed on time for 26 months.
Accounts Executive, Joshi & Associates, Chartered Accountants, PuneJan 2021 – Jul 2023
Kept the books for 22 small-business clients and did their bank reconciliation monthly in Excel with pivot tables.
Trained two new joiners on GST and TDS work.
Education
M.Com, Savitribai Phule Pune University2021 – 2023 (distance) · 72%
B.Com, Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce, Pune2018 – 2021 · 78%
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How this résumé looks for a fresher: projects and an internship where the work history is now.
Why it works
1
Close, audit, compliance
How fast you close the month, how the audit went, whether filings were on time. These are what a finance controller reads for.
2
Scale in rupees and volume
Entities, invoices a month, turnover handled. “Handled accounts” without scale reads as junior.
3
Systems you moved
A move from Tally to an ERP, or Excel to automation, shows you can change how a team works.
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