Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Audit Independence, Ethics and Conflict Checks

These are the 32 terms our scorer checks a Audit Independence, Ethics and Conflict Checks resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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.

  • independence
  • auditor independence
  • conflict check
  • conflict of interest
  • conflicts
  • client acceptance
  • engagement acceptance
  • restricted entity
  • affiliate analysis
  • non audit services
  • permissibility
  • sec
  • pcaob
  • aicpa
  • iesba
  • member firm
  • ethics
  • risk management
  • national office
  • sentinel
  • corporate tree
  • capiq
  • beneficial owner
  • ownership structure
  • due diligence
  • sanctions screening
  • adverse media
  • clearance
  • form ap
  • partner rotation
  • personal independence
  • quality control

The eight questions for Audit Independence, Ethics and Conflict Checks

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 conflict checks or independence reviews do you clear in a month?
  2. 2.What turnaround time do you work to, and what share of requests do you clear inside it?
  3. 3.How many engagement teams, member firms or regions do you support?
  4. 4.Which regulators and standards do you apply, such as SEC, PCAOB, AICPA or IESBA?
  5. 5.How many entities, affiliates or ownership structures have you mapped or validated?
  6. 6.Which research and independence systems do you work in daily?
  7. 7.How many breaches, investigations or remediation cases have you handled?
  8. 8.What process, template or automation did you build and what did it change?
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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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