Sterling resume & CV template
Capitalised headings over a hairline-split page with nothing else going on. A safe default with a sidebar.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Financial Analyst, Harrow Capital
Jan 2022 – Present
New York, NY
- 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
Financial Analyst, Bridgeway Group
Aug 2019 – Dec 2021
Boston, MA
- 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
BSc, Economics, London School of Economics
Sep 2015 – Jun 2018
London, UK
CERTIFICATES
CFA Level II Candidate, CFA Institute
Jun 2024 – Jun 2024
Financial Modelling & Valuation Analyst, CFI
Mar 2021 – Mar 2021
What defines this layout
- Sans-serif typeface
- Single column
- No photo
- Headings over a full-width rule
- Dates right-aligned against each role
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 Sterling as a CV
Sterling works as a British or Australian CV as it stands, where CV and resume name the same two-page document. The second column is the thing to check before sending: copy the text out of the exported PDF and confirm it reads in a sensible order.
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 Sterling the right choice?
Who it suits
A safe default with a second column. Capitalised headings, a hairline split, and no other decisions to make.
What it does to ATS parsing
Two columns, ruled. Straightforward.
At two pages
Adequate. Nothing about it fails, and nothing about it helps.
Use something else if
Quire for a greyer version, or Sidebar for a tinted rail from the original set.
Other templates
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