Is Gideon Marchbank a real accountant

No. He is invented for this page, and so are Thornewick Foods and Calderbrook Retail Group. The figures demonstrate a shape and describe nobody.

Where should the qualification go

In its own certifications line with a year, not buried in a summary sentence. The reader stores certifications as a section, and a finance recruiter looks for the letters and the date before anything else.

Is a part-qualified candidate at a disadvantage on this shape

No. Write the stage and the date you expect to finish, and keep the experience lines exactly as they are. The evidence is the same evidence.

What did the checker score it

97 out of 100, with one improvement remaining worth 8 points. The document has 191 readable words and the volume rule's top band opens at 250. Two roles in nine years is a short page and an honest one.

Can I write about an audit I supported

Yes, in the form the example uses: what you prepared, and what the outcome was. Three consecutive years cleared with no adjustments is a fact about your workpapers, and it is the sort of line a finance director reads twice.

Which design is this rendered in

Leaders, one of the 21 ATS-safe layouts out of 37. Its dot leaders line up dates without using a table, which is the part of a two-column look that breaks extraction.

Example · Finance

An accountant résumé example, and the figures that belong on it

One complete accountant résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13

— close days, entities, adjustments. that is the job.

The accountant example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Leaders design: name, summary, the roles with their bullet lines, education and a skills row — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Leaders design. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

Accountancy is one of the few professions where almost every sentence can carry a number, and a surprising number of accountants' résumés carry none. This example is written out in full so you can read the lines, then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser and a scorer make of them. The candidate is invented. Gideon Marchbank does not exist, neither employer exists, and every figure was chosen to demonstrate a shape.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Gideon Marchbank
Management Accountant
Leeds, United Kingdom · [email protected] · +44 113 496 0288

Summary
Management accountant with nine years in manufacturing and retail. Works on month-end, margin and the reconciliations that were never written down.

Experience

Management Accountant · Thornewick Foods, Leeds · 2020 to present

Closed month-end for 4 legal entities and reduced the close from 9 working days to 5.
Rebuilt product margin reporting across 1 200 SKUs and found GBP 340 000 of unrecovered freight.
Prepared the annual audit file and cleared the audit with 0 adjustments in 3 consecutive years.
Trained 7 site managers to read their own cost centre reports.

Assistant Accountant · Calderbrook Retail Group, Wakefield · 2016 to 2020

Reconciled 14 bank accounts monthly and cleared a backlog of 900 unmatched items.
Processed payroll journals for 480 staff across 22 stores.
Automated the VAT return workpapers and saved 2 days a quarter.
Supported the ERP migration for 22 stores, testing 60 finance scenarios.

Education
BSc Accounting and Finance · Kirkstall Business School, Leeds · 2012 to 2015

Skills
month-end close, management reporting, margin analysis, reconciliations, VAT returns, budgeting and forecasting, audit preparation, SAP, advanced Excel, Power BI

Certifications
ACCA, qualified · 2019

Close days, entities, adjustments

Those three words are most of what a finance director wants to know about a management accountant. The example answers all three in its first block: four legal entities, a close reduced from nine working days to five, and three consecutive audits cleared with no adjustments.

The second thing a reader looks for is whether you have ever found anything. The margin line does that work: 1 200 SKUs rebuilt and GBP 340 000 of unrecovered freight found. A line like that is worth more than a paragraph about attention to detail, because it is the same claim with evidence attached.

Systems belong in the skills row, not the summary

SAP, Excel and Power BI sit in a skills row of ten entries. The experience lines name what happened in them: a VAT workpaper automation that saved two days a quarter, an ERP migration tested across sixty finance scenarios. Software on its own is a filter term; software attached to an outcome is evidence.

The assistant accountant role keeps its four lines because early finance work is where reconciliation experience is proved, and a 900-item backlog cleared is a fact a hiring manager can imagine. The guide on certifications covers where the qualification and its year should sit.

What the reading found

The door below hands this document to the résumé builder as plain text, through the same import an uploaded file goes through, and the review shows every field beside the line it came from before anything reaches the editor. On this page the completeness pass found four readable sections, 120 words of experience evidence, ten distinct skills and one certification with its year.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Gideon Marchbank's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — The real import review, opened by this page's own door. It names Gideon Marchbank as invented before anything is saved, and it shows every field beside the line it came from.

No language model is involved. The readers are deterministic functions over the lines of a section, and where they are unsure they ask a question rather than deciding quietly, with nothing applied until it is answered.

What the checker scored it

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — The same door on a phone. Nothing is withheld on the small screen: the notice, the reading and the accept button are all there.

Ninety-seven out of 100, with one improvement remaining worth 8 points. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% + 100 × 30% + 92 × 40% = 97, explained in the article on the score. Eight action-led lines, four measurable, eight lines of depth, and 191 readable words against a volume band that opens at 250.

A nine-year career in two employers is a short document and a good sign. The ATS checker names volume as the only remaining fix and prices it at eight points, which is the honest answer: there is nothing wrong with this page that a third real role would not solve, and inventing one would be a great deal worse than 97.

What this example leaves off

No systems proficiency table, no reference line, no photograph and no objective. A finance director reading forty applications is looking for close days, entity counts and a qualification, and every additional element competes with those for the same two minutes of attention.

Software versions are left off as well. Naming SAP is useful; naming a module and a release number is a sentence that ages badly and tells a reader nothing they can act on. The same applies to a list of every accounting standard you have worked under, which is assumed from the sector and the years.

What to change for your own

Swap the sector first. Practice, public sector, charity and industry all use this shape with different nouns. Then put in your own close days, entity counts, reconciliation volumes and audit outcomes. If you work in practice, count clients and portfolio size instead of entities.

Keep the qualification visible with a year. Keep the skills row to ten. The design gallery holds 37 layouts if Leaders is too plain for your taste. The data analyst example, the marketing manager example and the customer service example carry the same structure over different evidence.

Write yours beside it

Opens the builder with Gideon's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Leaders design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.

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Questions

Is Gideon Marchbank a real accountant: No. He is invented for this page, and so are Thornewick Foods and Calderbrook Retail Group. The figures demonstrate a shape and describe nobody.
Where should the qualification go: In its own certifications line with a year, not buried in a summary sentence. The reader stores certifications as a section, and a finance recruiter looks for the letters and the date before anything else.
Is a part-qualified candidate at a disadvantage on this shape: No. Write the stage and the date you expect to finish, and keep the experience lines exactly as they are. The evidence is the same evidence.
What did the checker score it: 97 out of 100, with one improvement remaining worth 8 points. The document has 191 readable words and the volume rule's top band opens at 250. Two roles in nine years is a short page and an honest one.
Can I write about an audit I supported: Yes, in the form the example uses: what you prepared, and what the outcome was. Three consecutive years cleared with no adjustments is a fact about your workpapers, and it is the sort of line a finance director reads twice.
Which design is this rendered in: Leaders, one of the 21 ATS-safe layouts out of 37. Its dot leaders line up dates without using a table, which is the part of a two-column look that breaks extraction.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 20 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.