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Tax Manager resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what tax managers 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 tax managers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Tax manager with experience leading compliance and planning across multiple entities. Skilled in preparing and reviewing company tax returns, managing ATO lodgements, and advising on the tax effects of transactions. Known for tracking legislative changes and briefing finance leaders on practical impacts.
Key skills
- Tax compliance and planning
- Financial reporting
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk and internal controls
- MYOB AccountRight
- Thomson Reuters Checkpoint
- Microsoft Excel
- ATO portals and systems
- CCH Taxworks
- People leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Problem solving
Experience: example bullet points
- Led the preparation and review of company tax returns for a group of entities, ensuring lodgement through ATO portals by statutory deadlines.
- Identified planning opportunities before year-end by reviewing tax positions across group entities, reducing the group's effective tax rate.
- Supervised tax accountants and coordinated with external advisors on complex matters such as acquisitions and restructures.
- Tracked changes to tax legislation and briefed finance leaders on impacts, enabling proactive adjustments to tax positions.
- Managed tax audits and reviews by the ATO, providing documentation and resolving queries in a timely manner.
Education
Typical qualification is a bachelor degree in accounting or commerce, with many tax managers also completing CA or CPA and some undertaking postgraduate study in tax.
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.
- ATO
- GST
- BAS
- FBT
- Income tax
- Company tax returns
- Tax consolidation
- Transfer pricing
- Thin capitalisation
- Division 7A
- Capital gains tax
- Tax effect accounting
- CA
- CPA
- Tax Institute of Australia
- MYOB
- CCH Taxworks
- Thomson Reuters Checkpoint
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.