Charcoal resume & CV template
Headings reversed out of dark labels with a square photo and dotted skill meters. Heavy, and very easy to scan.
SUMMARY
Financial analyst covering SaaS and marketplaces, five years between corporate FP&A and the sell side. I build the model, then I argue about the assumptions in it, which is the part that matters.
EXPERIENCE
Jan 2022 – Present
New York, NY
Senior Financial Analyst, Harrow Capital
- Own the operating model for a $180m revenue portfolio company through two board cycles
- Rebuilt the forecast to cohort-level retention, cutting quarterly variance from 11% to 4%
- Ran diligence on 3 completed acquisitions, including the model that repriced one by $12m
Aug 2019 – Dec 2021
Boston, MA
Financial Analyst, Bridgeway Group
- Automated the monthly close pack in SQL and Python, saving ~30 hours a month
- Built the unit-economics dashboard the commercial team now sets pricing from
EDUCATION
Sep 2015 – Jun 2018
London, UK
BSc, Economics, London School of Economics
SKILLS
LANGUAGES
CERTIFICATES
Jun 2024 – Jun 2024
CFA Level II Candidate, CFA Institute
Mar 2021 – Mar 2021
Financial Modelling & Valuation Analyst, CFI
What defines this layout
- Sans-serif typeface
- Single column
- Includes an avatar or photo
- Headings over a full-width rule
- Dates in their own left column
Every one of these is a setting, not a constraint — accent colour, font, size, spacing and page margins stay yours under Customize, and switching template later re-renders what you’ve written rather than starting it over.
Using Charcoal as a CV
Charcoal carries a photo, which is what a continental European CV expects alongside the personal details a British one leaves out. For the UK, Ireland or Australia, turn the photo off in Customize — the layout closes up around it and the rest of the page is unchanged.
It sits at a normal density, which lands most histories on the two pages a non-academic CV is expected to fit.
More on the differences: CV templates and CV examples.
Is Charcoal the right choice?
Who it suits
Pages that will be skimmed. Reversed heading labels, a square photo and rated skills — every section is marked twice over.
What it does to ATS parsing
Single column with reversed labels and drawn dot meters. The labels and skill names extract; the ratings do not.
At two pages
Strong. The labels and the date column both carry across.
Use something else if
Placard for full-width labels without the rating, or Cinder for a lighter grey.
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