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Finance career notes

Useful thinking for the move you’re making.

No hacks. No inflated promises. Just practical ways to understand your finance story, make a stronger case and feel more ready for what comes next.

Career story

Your CV is not your history. It’s your invitation.

Choose the evidence that helps someone understand where you’re going.

Interview prep

Prepare deeply without sounding rehearsed.

A better way to practise answers while keeping your voice.

Job search

The job description is a conversation starter.

Read beyond the requirements and find the problems the team actually needs solved.

Finance CVs

How to write finance CV achievements without inventing numbers

Turn close, control, reporting and commercial work into credible evidence.

Investment banking

A grounded investment banking CV guide

Structure transaction, analytical and teamwork evidence for analyst and associate applications.

Accounting

What makes an accounting CV feel credible

Show the rhythm of close, controls, audit and stakeholder work without turning your CV into a task list.

FP&A

From reporting to insight: an FP&A CV guide

Explain planning, forecasting and business partnering in language a hiring team can understand.

Risk and compliance

How to write a risk or compliance CV with substance

Translate frameworks, testing and remediation into evidence of judgement and control.

Career change

Moving into finance without pretending you started there

Map transferable evidence from operations, consulting, technology or another sector into a credible finance story.

Interview prep

Five STAR stories to prepare for a finance interview

A practical story bank for judgement, accuracy, challenge, deadlines and commercial communication.

LinkedIn

Update your LinkedIn for a finance move without sounding generic

A manual, evidence-led way to make your headline, About section and experience tell the same story as your CV.

CV checklist

The finance CV review checklist

A calm final pass before you send a CV for an accounting, banking, risk or commercial finance role.