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Business Broker resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what business brokers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most business brokers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Business broker who takes small to mid-sized businesses from appraisal through to settlement, working directly with owners, their accountants and their solicitors. Combines hands-on valuation and financial modelling with confidential marketing and buyer qualification, and stays with the deal when finance or due diligence gets difficult. Works comfortably across Xero, Excel and listing CRMs such as Rex Software and Salesforce.
Key skills
- Business valuation using earnings multiples, asset assessments and comparable sales
- Financial analysis and modelling in Excel
- Adjusted net profit and add-back analysis
- Information memorandum and confidential listing preparation
- Negotiation of sale terms, handover periods and vendor finance
- Buyer qualification and lead screening
- Marketing analytics and campaign tracking
- Due diligence coordination
- Client relationships and vendor advisory
- Stakeholder management with accountants and solicitors
- Xero
- Salesforce
- Rex Software
- LinkedIn buyer sourcing and outreach
- Written communication and attention to detail
Experience: example bullet points
- Valued more than 40 small and mid-sized businesses using earnings multiples, asset assessments and comparable sales, and set asking prices owners could defend with evidence at the first buyer meeting.
- Prepared information memorandums and confidential marketing material across hospitality, trades and professional services, shortening the path from appraisal to signed confidentiality agreement to under two weeks.
- Screened buyer enquiries for finance readiness and genuine intent, releasing financials only after a signed non-disclosure agreement, which kept casual browsers out of vendor meetings.
- Coordinated due diligence between buyers, sellers, their accountants and solicitors, holding deals together through queries on stock, plant and equipment, leases and employee entitlements.
- Negotiated sale terms including stock at settlement, vendor finance and handover periods, and increased the number of listings that reached unconditional agreement.
- Maintained listing pipelines and buyer follow-up schedules in Rex Software and Salesforce so no qualified buyer went a fortnight without contact.
Education
Certificate IV in Real Estate Practice (business broking stream) or a diploma or bachelor degree in commerce, accounting, finance or business, plus a current real estate or business agent licence issued by the relevant state regulator.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- business broking
- business valuation
- information memorandum
- EBITDA multiple
- adjusted net profit
- confidentiality agreement
- non-disclosure agreement
- due diligence
- sale of business
- vendor finance
- real estate licence
- Certificate IV in Real Estate Practice
- AIBB
- Australian Institute of Business Brokers
- state fair trading regulator
- PPSR
- agency agreement
- settlement
- Xero
- Salesforce
- Rex Software
- CRM
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.