Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Finance Shared Services (R2R, P2P, O2C)

These are the 32 terms our scorer checks a Finance Shared Services (R2R, P2P, O2C) 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.

  • record to report
  • r2r
  • procure to pay
  • p2p
  • order to cash
  • o2c
  • general ledger
  • journal entries
  • month end close
  • balance sheet reconciliation
  • blackline
  • intercompany
  • fixed assets
  • accruals
  • prepayments
  • flux analysis
  • accounts payable
  • invoice processing
  • three way match
  • vendor payments
  • accounts receivable
  • cash application
  • collections
  • credit control
  • dunning
  • shared services
  • gbs
  • sla
  • transition
  • process documentation
  • sap
  • oracle

The eight questions for Finance Shared Services (R2R, P2P, O2C)

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, ledgers or business units does your close or process cover?
  2. 2.How many working days is your close, and what did you take it from?
  3. 3.How many invoices, journals or reconciliations do you process in a month?
  4. 4.Which process towers do you own, such as R2R, P2P, O2C or intercompany?
  5. 5.How many balance sheet accounts or open items do you reconcile and clear?
  6. 6.Which systems do you work in daily, such as SAP, Oracle or BlackLine?
  7. 7.How many processes have you transitioned, migrated or stabilised, and from where?
  8. 8.What did you automate or standardise, and what did it save?
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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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