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Chartered Accountant resume example

By Bhagirath Sheela, founder of JobCatch · 24 October 2026

A chartered accountant's resume is read against a clear checklist: when you qualified, how you cleared, where you did your articleship, and what kind of audits, tax or advisory work you have signed off. Recruiters for Big Four firms, banks and industry roles want that in the first few lines.

What recruiters look for

• ICAI membership, the year you qualified and your attempts or ranks
• Articleship: the firm, the duration and the kinds of audits
• Audit, direct and indirect tax, or advisory work, with client size
• Industry exposure: manufacturing, banking, IT, FMCG

Section order

Summary examples

Fresher

Newly qualified chartered accountant (ICAI, November 2025, first attempt) with three years of articleship at a mid-size firm covering statutory and tax audits of 25 companies.

Experienced

Chartered accountant with four years in statutory audit at a large firm, leading audits of listed manufacturing companies with revenue up to ₹5,000 crore under Ind AS.

Skills, spelled the way postings spell them

An applicant tracking system matches the words in the job posting, and it does not reliably treat two spellings as one skill. The left column is the form most postings use; the right, other spellings people type. Use the posting's own spelling for each application, and list only what you can discuss in an interview.

Also worth listing if you have them: Ind AS, Statutory audit reports, Internal financial controls.

Bullet examples

Each bullet says what you did and what changed because of it. Change the numbers to your own; a recruiter will ask about every one.

• Led statutory audit fieldwork for four listed manufacturing companies with revenue up to ₹5,000 crore under Ind AS.
• Managed audit teams of up to six articled assistants and reviewed their working papers.
• Tested internal financial controls over purchase-to-pay and reported three control weaknesses that the clients fixed.
• Prepared tax audit reports (Form 3CD) for 12 companies and resolved queries from the assessing officers.
• Reviewed GST reconciliations for a client with 18 state registrations and found ₹1.2 crore of mismatched credit.

For freshers: projects and internships

• Articleship of three years at a mid-size firm: statutory and tax audits of 25 companies across manufacturing and trading.
• Bank branch audits at four public-sector bank branches during the annual audit season.
• Cleared CA Final in the first attempt; cleared CA Intermediate with exemption in three papers.

Mistakes to avoid

1. Leaving out the articleship details. For a newly qualified CA, the firm and the work there are your experience.
2. Writing only "audit". Statutory, internal, tax and bank branch audits are different work; name each.
3. No size. Client turnover, team size and number of audits tell a recruiter your level.

What an ATS reads from this sample

An applicant tracking system turns the PDF into plain text before anyone reads it. This is that text for the sample above, extracted by the same code as "What the ATS reads" in the app. Everything is in reading order, under the right heading, with the name and email intact — which is what a single-column template is for.

Neha Bhandari

Chartered Accountant

[email protected] • +91 98765 43210 • Mumbai, Maharashtra • linkedin.com/in/nehabhandari

Summary

Chartered accountant with four years in statutory audit at a large firm, leading audits of listed manufacturing companies with revenue up to ₹5,000 crore under Ind AS.

Experience

Assistant Manager, Statutory Audit, Kirtane Sharma & Associates
Feb 2023 – Present

Mumbai

Led statutory audit fieldwork for four listed manufacturing companies with revenue up to ₹5,000 crore under Ind AS.

Managed audit teams of up to six articled assistants and reviewed their working papers.

Tested internal financial controls over purchase-to-pay and reported three control weaknesses that the clients fixed.

Audit Associate, Mehta Desai & Co.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

Mumbai

Prepared tax audit reports (Form 3CD) for 12 companies and resolved queries from the assessing officers.

Reviewed GST reconciliations for a client with 18 state registrations and found ₹1.2 crore of mismatched credit.

Certifications

Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ACA), 2021

Education

CA, Chartered Accountancy
2017 – 2021

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India · Qualified, first attempt

Skills

Auditing · Accounting · Financial analysis · GST compliance · Income tax filing · TDS · Budgeting · Microsoft Excel · SAP · Stakeholder management · Ind AS · Statutory audit reports · Internal financial controls

Projects

Controls review

Internal financial controls testing that found three purchase-to-pay weaknesses, all fixed.

Languages

English · Hindi

Interview questions to prepare

The app's interview prep for this sample and a plain Chartered Accountant posting. It works from the resume and the posting only, and tells you how to prepare, never what to say.

Questions every interview has

• Tell me about yourself. Two minutes: what you do now (Assistant Manager, Statutory Audit at Kirtane Sharma & Associates), one result you are proud of, and why this role is next.
• Why do you want this job? Read their website and one recent piece of news before the call. Name something specific.
• Why are you leaving your current job? Say what you are moving towards. Do not criticise your employer.
• What is your notice period, and what salary are you expecting? Decide your number before the interview, so you are not deciding it on the call.

About the skills the job asks for

• Tell me about a time you used Financial analysis. Pick one real example: what the problem was, what you did, and what changed.
• Tell me about a time you used Accounting. Pick one real example: what the problem was, what you did, and what changed.
• Tell me about a time you used GST compliance. Pick one real example: what the problem was, what you did, and what changed.
• Tell me about a time you used TDS. Pick one real example: what the problem was, what you did, and what changed.
• Tell me about a time you used Income tax filing. Pick one real example: what the problem was, what you did, and what changed.
• Tell me about a time you used Auditing. Pick one real example: what the problem was, what you did, and what changed.

About what the resume claims

• You wrote: "Led statutory audit fieldwork for four listed manufacturing companies with revenue up to ₹5,000 crore under Ind AS." Expect three follow-ups: how exactly, what was your own part, and how you know it worked.
• You wrote: "Managed audit teams of up to six articled assistants and reviewed their working papers." Expect three follow-ups: how exactly, what was your own part, and how you know it worked.
• You wrote: "Tested internal financial controls over purchase-to-pay and reported three control weaknesses that the clients fixed." Expect three follow-ups: how exactly, what was your own part, and how you know it worked.

Questions to ask them

• What would a good first three months in this role look like?
• Who would I work with most closely?
• What are the next steps, and when should I expect to hear back?

Templates that suit this role

All of these are single-column and read cleanly by an applicant tracking system. Classic is free, with no watermark.

Questions

Next: the Chartered Accountant cover letter the app drafts from this resume, and how to show Accounting, GST compliance, Microsoft Excel on a resume.

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