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Fund accountant resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a fund accountant resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in fund accountant-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

These tips will help you demonstrate why you are the perfect fit for the fund accountant position.

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List the right project manager skills

Use your Skills section to show you have the knowledge and technical ability to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
  2. Include as many relevant hard or technical fund accountant skills as possible for each job you apply to.
  3. Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some fund accountant interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a fund accountant resume:

  • Reconciliations
  • Calculation
  • Securities
  • GAAP
  • Accruals
  • Journal Entries
  • Financial Statements
  • Excellent Interpersonal
  • General Ledger
  • External Auditors
  • Account Balances
  • Hedge Funds
  • Capital Calls
  • Corporate Actions
  • Financial Reports
  • Fixed Income
  • Mutual Funds
  • Balance Sheet
  • Derivative
  • Private Equity Funds
  • Work Ethic
  • NET Asset Value
  • Bloomberg
  • Taxation
  • Fund Portfolios
  • Equities
  • Trial Balance
  • Bank Reconciliations
  • Management Fees
  • Cash Management

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How to structure your work experience

A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.

  1. Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
  2. Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.

How to write fund accountant experience bullet points

Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:

  • Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
  • Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
  • Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.

Here are examples from great fund accountant resumes:

Work history example #1

Accounting Internship (Part-Time)

Palmetto GBA

  • Imported data from Blue Sky to QuickBooks
  • Corrected and processed daily punch details and bi-weekly payroll for a staff of approximately 1000 associates, both hourly and salaried.
  • Prepared payroll quarterly returns for both companies, deposited taxes and filed year-end W-2s.
  • Mapped current processes within ACCPAC systems software to assist in implementation of Oracle.
  • Classified account names to allocate transactions accurately in QuickBooks.

Work history example #2

Fund Accountant

Associations

  • Prepared financial statement documentation and footnote disclosures compliant with GAAP and varying regulatory bodies.
  • Processed semi-monthly payroll for staff of 25 personnel.
  • Led the functional implementation of the company's first financial datamart.
  • Assisted accounting manager with compiling SOX documentation and verification of completeness of compliance efforts.
  • Ensured correct processing of equity and fixed income financial instruments.

Work history example #3

Fund Accountant

Robert Half International

  • Staffed various temporary accounting positions including auditing for a small CPA Firm
  • Recommended and initiated transitioned of accounting system from Excel to QuickBooks.
  • Assisted accounting manager with compiling SOX documentation and verification of completeness of compliance efforts.
  • Summarized accounting information from acquired company's QuickBooks file and made journal entries into Great Plains.
  • Imported Labor hours from ADP into accounting system then calculated labor based on project.

Work history example #4

Operations Specialist

Meijer

  • Sketched As-Built drawings in AutoCAD to reflect completed fire sprinkler systems.
  • Delivered superb technical support and effectively completed HR/Payroll system conversion from ADP to PeopleSoft 9.0.
  • Monitored and maintained program updates (user software, network software), Windows updates.
  • Improved customer service ratings through receiving quality survey responses.
  • Communicated regularly with Marketing, Logistics, and Technical teams to troubleshoot and improve customer experience.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries from fund accountant resumes:

Bachelor's Degree in accounting

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

2006 - 2009

Highlight your fund accountant certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications or education-like achievements, add them to the education section.

Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your fund accountant resume:

  1. Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
  2. Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
  3. Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA)
  4. Certified Resume Specialist: Accounting and Finance (CRS+AF)
  5. Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA)
  6. Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA)

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