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ATS resume keywords for Audit and Assurance (Statutory, SOX, Internal Audit)

These are the 32 terms our scorer checks a Audit and Assurance (Statutory, SOX, Internal Audit) resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • statutory audit
  • external audit
  • internal audit
  • assurance
  • sox
  • sox 404
  • icfr
  • internal financial controls
  • ifc
  • test of controls
  • test of design
  • substantive testing
  • walkthrough
  • materiality
  • sampling
  • audit planning
  • risk assessment
  • fieldwork
  • workpapers
  • audit findings
  • management letter
  • ind as
  • ifrs
  • us gaap
  • isa
  • pcaob
  • coso
  • control deficiency
  • remediation
  • audit committee
  • process audit
  • caseware

The eight questions for Audit and Assurance (Statutory, SOX, Internal Audit)

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many audits or engagements have you completed, and of what size?
  2. 2.How many findings, deficiencies or observations did you raise, and how many closed?
  3. 3.How many controls, processes or accounts do you test in a cycle?
  4. 4.Which frameworks and standards do you audit against, such as SOX, ICFR, COSO, Ind AS or IFRS?
  5. 5.How many client entities, locations or business units do you audit?
  6. 6.How many staff have you led or reviewed on engagements?
  7. 7.Which audit tools do you work in, such as Caseware, Aura, Canvas or ACL?
  8. 8.What industry or sector do most of your clients sit in?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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