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Ledger

Conservative single column for accounting and finance, with prominent space for qualifications and compliance work.

Example text — you replace it with yours in the builder.

  • LayoutSingle column
  • Best forLegal & Finance
  • ATS-friendlyYes
  • PhotoOptional
  • PriceFree

Who this suits

A safe default for legal & finance roles and for any application going through a large employer's careers portal, where the first reader is software rather than a person.

How it handles ATS parsing

Single column with a linear reading order, conventional section headings, and no layout tables. Contact details sit in the body text rather than a page footer, because footer content lives outside the text layer and many parsers drop it entirely.

What you can change

Accent colour, font body, font heading, spacing, scale, line, section order, which sections appear, page size (A4 or Letter), and every word of the text. Nothing here is locked behind a payment.

How to write an accounting or finance CV in Ledger

Finance hiring runs on qualifications, systems and the size of what you have closed or audited. Ledger is a conservative single column with space for professional qualifications and compliance work near the top.

Sections, in this order

  1. Professional qualifications — ACCA, CA, CPA or CMA, finished or in progress, with papers passed
  2. Professional summary
  3. Experience
  4. Systems — ERP, reporting and spreadsheet tools
  5. Education
  6. Languages

Bullet points that work

  • Closed the monthly books for a [$X million] entity in [five] working days, down from [nine].
  • Led the [year-end] audit with [external auditors], with no material adjustments.
  • Built [a cash-flow forecast] that [the board] used for [weekly] decisions.

Figures in [brackets] are placeholders. Use your own, and only ones you could explain in an interview.

Mistakes to avoid

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