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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Corporate Finance and FP&A

These are the 22 terms our scorer checks a Corporate Finance and FP&A 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.

  • financial reporting
  • reconciliation
  • budgeting
  • forecasting
  • variance analysis
  • gaap
  • ifrs
  • audit
  • accounts payable
  • accounts receivable
  • sap
  • tally
  • excel
  • cash flow
  • p&l
  • compliance
  • taxation
  • month-end close
  • record to report
  • r2r
  • general ledger
  • journal entry

The eight questions for Corporate Finance and FP&A

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 entities, books or legal entities do you close?
  2. 2.What is the value of the ledger, revenue or spend you handle?
  3. 3.How many days does your month end close take, and has it shortened?
  4. 4.How many reconciliations do you own, and at what volume?
  5. 5.How many audits have you supported, and with what outcome?
  6. 6.Which systems do you work in?
  7. 7.How many people do you supervise or review the work of?
  8. 8.What cost or leakage have you identified and recovered?
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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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