Finance resume template for Google Docs™
The investment banking format: education and GPA first, half-inch margins, every line earning its place. For finance, banking and consulting.
- Parser read 44/44 fields
- 1 page
- US Letter and A4
- Google Docs and Word
- Times New Roman
What a parser reads from it
Field by field, from the PDF that Google Docs exports.
44/44
fields read correctly from the resume (US Letter), downloaded from Google Docs as a PDF and read by the open-source OpenResume parser (commit 4f8255a) on Oct 5, 2026.
What the parser read
First 30 lines, exactly as extracted.
Ethan Calloway New York, NY | (212) 555-0173 | ethan.calloway@example.com | linkedin.com/in/ethancalloway EDUCATION Kestlemoor University Philadelphia, PA Bachelor of Science in Economics, concentration in Finance May 2021 • GPA: 3.8/4.0; graduated with honors • Relevant coursework: Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Econometrics, Valuation EXPERIENCE Thornholme Energy, Corporate Development New York, NY Senior Financial Analyst Jul 2023 – Present • Built the model and valuation for a $220 million acquisition of a solar developer, approved by the board in 2025 • Screen 30 to 40 potential targets a year and write the one-page summaries the CFO uses to decide which to pursue • Coordinate diligence with outside counsel, accountants and three internal teams on deals of $50 million to $250 million • Track integration targets for two acquired businesses and report progress to the CFO every quarter Harlan Quay Capital Partners New York, NY Investment Banking Analyst Jul 2021 – Jun 2023 • Worked on five closed deals worth $1.6 billion, including two sell-side processes for industrial companies • Built three-statement models, comparable company analyses and merger models for client pitches and live deals • Drafted sections of offering memoranda and managed data rooms with over 2,000 documents • Prepared buyer lists and handled first calls with about 60 potential buyers on one sale process Harlan Quay Capital Partners New York, NY Investment Banking Intern Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 • Prepared industry research and trading comparables for two healthcare services pitches • Built a database of recent deals in physician practice management for the group's senior bankers ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS Kestlemoor Student Investment Fund | Portfolio Manager, Industrials 2018 – 2021 • Managed a $180,000 slice of the university endowment; the industrials sector beat its benchmark by 4% over two years Peer Tutoring Program | Economics Tutor 2019 – 2021 • Tutored about 15 students each term in introductory micro- and macroeconomics Kestlemoor Finance Society | Vice President, Education 2019 – 2021
Field by field
What we wrote, and what the parser put in each field.
| Field | Parser read | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Ethan Calloway | |
| ethan.calloway@example.com | ||
| Phone | (212) 555-0173 | |
| Location | New York, NY | |
| Link | linkedin.com/in/ethancalloway | |
| Summary | (empty) | |
| Job 1 company | Thornholme Energy, Corporate Development | |
| Job 1 title | Senior Financial Analyst | |
| Job 1 dates | Jul 2023 – Present | |
| Job 1, bullet 1 | Built the model and valuation for a $220 million acquisition of a solar developer, approved by the board in 2025 | |
| Job 1, bullet 2 | Screen 30 to 40 potential targets a year and write the one-page summaries the CFO uses to decide which to pursue | |
| Job 1, bullet 3 | Coordinate diligence with outside counsel, accountants and three internal teams on deals of $50 million to $250 million | |
| Job 1, bullet 4 | Track integration targets for two acquired businesses and report progress to the CFO every quarter | |
| Job 2 company | Harlan Quay Capital Partners | |
| Job 2 title | Investment Banking Analyst | |
| Job 2 dates | Jul 2021 – Jun 2023 | |
| Job 2, bullet 1 | Worked on five closed deals worth $1.6 billion, including two sell-side processes for industrial companies | |
| Job 2, bullet 2 | Built three-statement models, comparable company analyses and merger models for client pitches and live deals | |
| Job 2, bullet 3 | Drafted sections of offering memoranda and managed data rooms with over 2,000 documents | |
| Job 2, bullet 4 | Prepared buyer lists and handled first calls with about 60 potential buyers on one sale process | |
| Job 3 company | Harlan Quay Capital Partners | |
| Job 3 title | Investment Banking Intern | |
| Job 3 dates | Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 | |
| Job 3, bullet 1 | Prepared industry research and trading comparables for two healthcare services pitches | |
| Job 3, bullet 2 | Built a database of recent deals in physician practice management for the group's senior bankers | |
| School 1 | Kestlemoor University | |
| School 1 degree | Bachelor of Science in Economics, concentration in Finance | |
| School 1 dates | May 2021 | |
| School 1 GPA | 3.8 | |
| School 1, bullet 1 | GPA: 3.8/4.0; graduated with honors | |
| School 1, bullet 2 | Relevant coursework: Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Econometrics, Valuation | |
| Project 1 | Kestlemoor Student Investment Fund | Portfolio Manager, Industrials | |
| Project 1 dates | 2018 – 2021 | |
| Project 1, bullet 1 | Managed a $180,000 slice of the university endowment; the industrials sector beat its benchmark by 4% over two years | |
| Project 2 | Peer Tutoring Program | Economics Tutor | |
| Project 2 dates | 2019 – 2021 | |
| Project 2, bullet 1 | Tutored about 15 students each term in introductory micro- and macroeconomics | |
| Project 3 | Kestlemoor Finance Society | Vice President, Education | |
| Project 3 dates | 2019 – 2021 | |
| Project 3, bullet 1 | Ran weekly technical training on accounting and valuation for about 40 first- and second-year members | |
| Skills line 1 | Technical: Excel, PowerPoint, Capital IQ, FactSet | |
| Skills line 2 | Certifications: CFA Level II candidate | |
| Skills line 3 | Languages: English (native), Mandarin (professional) | |
| Skills line 4 | Interests: Marathon running, chess, cooking |
Shown but not counted
- Philadelphia, PA: no location field for schools. It's in the extracted text.
- New York, NY: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- New York, NY: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- New York, NY: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
This checks our sample text, read by one open-source parser from the PDF that Google Docs' File > Download > PDF produces. It isn't a score, and it doesn't tell you how Workday, Greenhouse or any other hiring system will read your own resume. Anyone can rerun it: the test repository has the PDF (SHA-256 bbfbdc6f972f…), the expected values and the raw results. How we test
Specs and editing tips
Everything you need to edit it without breaking the layout.
Specs
- Font
- Times New Roman, installed on Windows and macOS, so the .docx keeps its look
- Body text
- 10.5 pt
- Margins
- 0.5 in (Letter), 13 mm (A4)
- Length
- 1 page with the sample content
- Sections
- Education, Experience, Activities and Projects, Skills and Interests
- Good for
- Students to 5 years
- Layout
- One column, no tables, text boxes, images or icons. Dates aligned with a right tab stop.
Editing tips
- Dates stay on the right by themselves. Each heading line has a right-aligned tab stop. Press Tab before the date instead of adding spaces.
- Add a job by copying one. Select a whole entry, heading lines and bullets, copy it and paste it below. The spacing comes with it.
- Ran onto a second page? Set margins to 0.5 in, body text to 10.5 pt and line spacing to single, in that order. More ways to fit one page
- Rename your copy. Recruiters see the file name, so use something like Firstname-Lastname-Resume.
Exporting your finished resume
Two downloads from Google Docs cover almost every application.
File > Download > PDF Document. This is the exact path we test on every release. It gives selectable text with the fonts embedded.
Word
File > Download > Microsoft Word (.docx). Our own .docx files are exported this way, and we check that text and bullets survive. Don't convert a PDF to Word.
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Questions
- Is it really free?
- Yes. No account, no email and no watermark. Copy it, edit it and send it to as many employers as you like. The one thing you can't do is repost the template file itself somewhere else.
- Will it get through an ATS?
- Nobody can promise that, and we don't. What we can show is that an open-source parser reads our sample of this template correctly, field by field, from the PDF Google Docs produces. Workday, Greenhouse and others use their own parsers, and your own content matters as much as the layout. How we test
- Can I use it in Microsoft Word?
- Yes. Download the .docx, or copy to Google Docs and later use File > Download > Microsoft Word. The font is installed on Windows and macOS, so nothing gets swapped.
- Why no photo, icons or two columns?
- Parsers read a page top to bottom. Columns, text boxes and icons are the usual reason a resume comes out scrambled. US employers also generally don't want photos.
- Can my name have accents or non-Latin characters?
- Yes, with one caveat. In our tests the parser read José Álvarez, Mary-Jane Smith, Sean O'Brien and Иван Петров correctly, and the layout didn't move. A Chinese name like 王小明 also kept the page intact, but Google Docs swaps in a Japanese font for those characters and the parser left the name field empty. For US applications, put the romanized name first, like Xiaoming Wang (王小明). Phone numbers outside the US format, like +44 7700 900123, aren't picked up as phone numbers either.