Controller Resume

The Controller is responsible for preparing periodic financial accounts, maintaining accounts and preparing budgets and controls to ensure minimum risk, improved accuracy of accounts and records and guarantee compliance with legal standards of account keeping. Employers prefer candidates with a bachelor's degree in accounting or business administration, certifications in public / management accountancy or equivalent experience. Controllers have a desk job but may be required to travel to subsidiary companies or during acquisitions. The candidate in this resume is an arts graduate and a certified accountant with ten years of experience in accounts handling.

Sample Controller Resume

Whip McIntyre
2930 Granville Avenue
Richmond, VA 23298
Telephone No: 604-668-4019
Email id: whipmcintyre@gmail.com

Career Objective

Seeking the position of a controller with a major company in the private sector.

Professional Skills:

Accountancy Certificate with High Honors from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA in 1994
Diploma in Spanish Language from the Graduate School of Spanish Language, University of Madrid in 1992

Computer Skills:

Office packages like MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook Express
Operating systems like Windows 2000, Windows 9X, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows ME
IBM PC, Lotus 1-2-3, MS DOS, Logistics Radar Equipment

Professional Background:

Controller with the Kendall Management Group, Richmond, VA from 2004 till date where the job responsibilities involve:
- Assembling financial records and maintaining general ledgers for five close knit companies
- Plan and prepare budget estimation and expenditure records
- To thoroughly process payroll structures, payables and receivables
Staff Accountant with B.T Johnson, CPA, Richmond, VA for 2000 - 2003, where the responsibilities involved:
- Preparing and handling efficiently personal, company and fiduciary income tax and estate tax proceeds
- Thoroughly research tax issues
- Create compilations and financial audit records
Assistant Terminal Agent with Ashland Authority, Ashland, VA for 1995 - 99, where the responsibilities involved:
- Supervising and handling fifteen ticket brokers and agents
- Planned, designed, created and later modified a new Accounting Department with new policies and practices for improving the efficiency of accounting in the company
- Assisted in the marketing and transferring of sales reporting to Lotus 1-2-3

Academic Background

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Modern Languages from University of Richmond, Richmond, VA in 1990

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