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Screening guide
Finance hiring has an unusual property: a meaningful part of the resume is externally verifiable. Qualifications are registrable, and either the candidate holds them or they do not. That makes the credential the easy half. The hard half is scope — whether this person produced the numbers, reviewed them, or owned the decision they informed — and resumes routinely blur exactly that distinction.
Signal
Qualification, awarding body and current standing. This is the part you can and should check.
Preparing a reconciliation, reviewing one, and signing off on it are three different levels of the same task.
Multi-entity, multi-currency and consolidated reporting are step changes, not incremental ones.
Producing the month-end pack and being asked what it means are different jobs. Know which one you are hiring.
ERP and reporting stack matter for ramp time, but they are trainable in a way that judgement is not.
Noise
None of these is disqualifying on its own. Each is a reason to ask a question rather than assume an answer.
Qualification listed without the awarding body or completion status
Responsibility described at team level throughout an individual contributor history
No mention of close cycles, audit or controls in a role that must have involved them
Unexplained gaps in a function where continuity is normally documented
Rubric
Write the criteria down before you look at anyone. An undocumented standard drifts, and it cannot be audited afterwards.
The specific credential and standing the role requires, stated checkably.
Prepared, reviewed or owned — matched to what the role actually needs.
Entity structure, currencies and transaction volume comparable to yours.
Experience with audit, controls and the regulatory regime you operate under.
Relevant ERP or reporting tools, weighted as ramp time rather than capability.
Next step
Ask the same ones of every candidate. Comparability is the whole point.
FAQ
Put it into practice
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Everyone lists SQL and Python. Almost nobody describes a decision their analysis changed.
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