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Senior accountant CV template

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Nadeesha Fernando

Senior Accountant · CA (Sri Lanka)

Colombo, Sri Lanka+94 77 000 0000nadeesha@example.lklinkedin.com/in/example

Profile

Chartered Accountant with nine years across Big Four audit and industry. Currently leading a five-person team in a manufacturing group with LKR 4bn turnover, where I cut the month-end close from twelve working days to five and took the group through two clean audits under SLFRS.

Experience

Senior Accountant

Mar 2022 – Present

Manufacturing group · Colombo

  • Reduced month-end close from 12 to 5 working days by redesigning the close calendar and automating 14 recurring journals.
  • Led the LKAS 16 revaluation of a LKR 1.2bn asset base with no audit adjustments.
  • Released LKR 140m of trapped working capital through a debtor-ageing review and revised credit terms.
  • Manage and develop a team of five; two promoted within eighteen months.

Assistant Manager, Audit

Jan 2019 – Feb 2022

Big Four audit firm · Colombo

  • Ran fieldwork on eleven listed and private clients across manufacturing, retail and plantations.
  • Identified a LKR 38m revenue-recognition error at a listed client before sign-off.
  • Built the firm’s SLFRS 16 lease-calculation template, later adopted across the practice.

Audit Senior / Associate

Jan 2016 – Dec 2018

Big Four audit firm · Colombo

  • Audited revenue, inventory and fixed-asset cycles for clients with turnover up to LKR 20bn.
  • Coached six trainee associates through their first busy season.

Core skills

Reporting
SLFRS / IFRS · Consolidation · Management accounts · Board packs
Controls
Month-end close · Internal controls · Audit liaison · Tax compliance
Systems
SAP FI/CO · Oracle NetSuite · Advanced Excel · Power BI

Education

Associate Member, CA Sri Lanka

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka · 2019

BSc Accountancy (Special), Second Class Upper

University of Sri Jayewardenepura · 2016

Certifications

  • CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting (2015)

Languages

English — professional · Sinhala — native · Tamil — conversational

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ATS-friendly

8 checks passed · 1 to improve

An estimate based on how common ATS systems (Workday, Taleo, Greenhouse, Lever) parse CVs.

What an ATS identifies

Name
Found: Nadeesha Fernando
Email
Found: nadeesha@example.lk
Phone
Found: +94 77 000 0000
Location
Found: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Links
Found: linkedin.com/in/example
Job title
Found: Senior Accountant · CA (Sri Lanka)
Skills
Found: 12: SLFRS / IFRS, Consolidation, Management accounts, Board packs, Month-end close, Internal controls, Audit liaison, Tax compliance…
Education
Found: Associate Member, CA Sri Lanka (2019) · BSc Accountancy (Special), Second Class Upper (2016)

Work history as parsed

  • Senior Accountant at Manufacturing groupMar 2022 – Present
  • Assistant Manager, Audit at Big Four audit firmJan 2019 – Feb 2022
  • Audit Senior / Associate at Big Four audit firmJan 2016 – Dec 2018

Profile / Summary section not foundExperience section not foundEducation section not foundSkills section not foundProjects section not foundCertifications section not foundLanguages section not found

ATS-friendliness checks

  • Passed: Contact details can be readEmail and phone are plain text in a recognisable format.
  • Problem: Standard section headingsMissing or unrecognised: Experience, Education, Skills. Use these exact words as headings.
  • Passed: Dates an ATS can parseEvery role has dates in a standard format, so your years of experience can be calculated.
  • Passed: Most recent role firstRoles are in reverse-chronological order, the order ATS systems and recruiters expect.
  • Passed: Achievements as bullet points9 bullet points, each short enough to scan.
  • Passed: Plain characters onlyNo emoji, icon fonts or special symbols that could turn into gibberish.
  • Passed: Reading orderThe template is a single column underneath. Sidebars are read after the main column, never mixed into it.
  • Passed: Links written out in fullLinks are shown as readable addresses (so ATS systems read them) and are clickable in the PDF.
  • Passed: Length1 page, within the one-to-two pages most recruiters expect.
  • Note: File formatBoth downloads are ATS-readable: the PDF keeps real, selectable text, and the Word file uses real headings and bullet lists.
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