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Accountant

Daniel Osei, CPA, ten years in manufacturing and distribution, the last five as a controller. In this profession the resume is a control document: every claim has to survive a follow-up question.

10 years Controller CPA, active Target: Controller or Accounting Manager

Daniel Osei, CPA

Controller

Columbus, OH daniel.osei@example.com +1 614 555 0113 linkedin.com/in/danielosei

Summary

Certified public accountant with ten years in manufacturing and distribution, the last five as a controller. I have closed the books twenty times, led two audit cycles with no material findings, and shortened a nine-day close to four. Working knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS consolidation.

Experience

Halverson Manufacturing

Jan 2020 – Present

Columbus, OH

Controller

Lead the month-end close for a $180M revenue manufacturer across three entities: twenty consecutive closes, every one finished before the fifth working day.
Cut the close from nine working days to four by automating the intercompany eliminations and moving two reconciliations to a shared template.
Led two external audits, in 2021 and 2024, with no material findings and no control deficiencies, owning the preparation, the walkthroughs, and the response letters.
Rebuilt the thirteen-week cash forecast, cutting revolver draws from eleven a year to three.

Kestrel Distribution

Aug 2016 – Dec 2019

Columbus, OH

Senior Accountant

Owned the revenue cycle for $240M of annual revenue, including the ASC 606 implementation across three revenue streams.
Ran the monthly consolidation for four subsidiaries in NetSuite, taking the consolidation close from five days to one.
Automated the commission accrual, replacing a manual calculation that had produced errors in two of the prior three years.

Brant and Cole LLP

Jul 2014 – Jul 2016

Cleveland, OH

Staff Accountant

Prepared compilations and reviewed financial statements for more than 20 small business clients.
Led fixed asset physical inventories at two clients, recovering $180k of assets that were never recorded.

Skills

Accounting US GAAP, ASC 606, IFRS consolidation, revenue recognition, inventory costing, deferred revenue, month-end close

Systems NetSuite, SAP, CaseWare, QuickBooks, advanced Excel, SQL, RPA

Reporting Financial statements, cash forecasting, audit preparation, variance analysis, SOX control testing

Certification

Certified Public Accountant

Active since 2018

State of Ohio

Education

Ohio State University

2010 – 2014

B.A. Accounting

Systems of record

NetSuite (production, five years), SAP, CaseWare, QuickBooks Online, Excel with Power Query, and a small amount of SQL for extracting audit evidence.

Languages

English: Native
Twi: Conversational

Why this works

Eight decisions, each visible in the document on the left.

The close is the headline. Twenty closes, every one before the fifth working day. That is the first number an accounting manager asks about, and it is the first bullet.
Audits are stated with outcomes. Two audits, no material findings, no control deficiencies, and ownership of the preparation. "Assisted with audit" is the phrase people use when they were in the room.
Time and money are both quantified. Nine days to four is a process metric; eleven revolver draws to three is a cash metric. Together they are the entire controller job in two lines.
A past error is named honestly. The commission accrual that had been wrong in two of three years is a risk found and fixed. Every controller reading this has found the same spreadsheet, and admitting it reads as competence rather than as a gap.
Standards are named where they matter. US GAAP, ASC 606, IFRS consolidation. "Financial reporting" is a category; those three are a filter.
The credential carries a status. "Active since 2018" is what a hiring manager needs. A bare CPA leaves them wondering whether the licence lapsed.
Systems are listed by depth. "NetSuite, five years in production" tells a controller more than a column of twenty software names.
Client work is kept, even the unglamorous parts. A physical inventory that recovered $180k is real accounting work, and it is the kind of line that gets read twice.

Adapting it

Name the standards you actually work under. "US GAAP" is a filter; "GAAP" is a guess.
Convert process numbers into money wherever you can. Days saved is second-best. Dollars and interest saved is the version that reaches the CFO.
State the issuing state and year of any licence you hold. Verification takes them one click, and its absence costs you the whole application.

Start from this

The resume travels inside the link itself, so opening it in the builder involves no upload and no account. Replace the contact details first.

Start from this

Building the import link.

Facts about this example
Level	Controller, 10 years
Sections used	Summary, experience, skills, certification, education, systems, languages
Longest role	5 years, 4 bullets
Design	Classic, 10.5pt, uppercase headings, 0.6in margins