For accounting, audit, FP&A, banking and treasury
Then we help you through it. Sharper CV lines, a CV and cover letter for each job, and interview practice with feedback on your answers.
Free to start. No card. Nothing is invented on your behalf.
| Row | A · Your line | B · Stronger, from your answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Involved in month-end. | Post about 25 accruals and prepayments journals a month and reconcile the AP control account✓ checked · 2 facts from you |
| 2 | Built a driver-based cost model used in the annual budget. | Built an Excel cost model on volume, headcount and fuel drivers covering about £18m of depot costs, used as the base for the 2023 and 2024 budgets✓ checked · 4 facts from you |
| 3 | Ad hoc analysis. | Answer store profitability questions for the commercial team, a few a week, including analysis of closing two loss-making stores✓ checked · 3 facts from you |
Under the hood
A fictional FP&A candidate’s CV, tailored to one job. Each number marks something the workspace did.
Senior Financial Analyst · ACA
Manchester · name@example.com · 07700 900000
Senior Financial Analyst, FTSE 250 retailer 22023 – Present
Transaction Services Associate, Pennine & Co2020 – 2023
Top 20 UK accountancy firm, 45 partners 3
How it thinks
We don’t rewrite your CV in one go. We find your vaguest lines, say what a hiring manager actually reads, and ask for the facts that would change their mind.
Your line
Responsible for credit control.
What a recruiter reads
Reads as a job remit: a hiring manager can’t tell whether you ran credit control or supported it, or how big the ledger was.
What it could become
your part credit control for how many accounts, what changed
Two quick questions
Your stronger line
Managed credit control for about 300 trade accounts and roughly £4m of monthly sales as sole controller; over-60-day debt fell from about 18% to 9%
One workspace
Confirm your experience once. Every CV, letter and profile is built from it, and every change is checked against it.
Job check
Owns the monthly forecastShown on your CV
Shown by: “Own the monthly forecast for four regional depots”
Anaplan experienceNot on your CV yet
No fit percentage: a check of your CV, never a hiring probability.
Tailored CV
One column, real text, PDF or Word. Built to be read by people and applicant tracking systems alike.
Cover letter
At Brightwater Logistics, I own the monthly forecast for four regional depots and reconcile it to the general ledger before submission.
From your CV: “Own the monthly forecast for four regional depots…”
Anything that says more than your CV does is left out. No invented reasons for wanting the job.
LinkedIn profile
Senior Financial Analyst | FP&A | Forecasting and budgeting for multi-site retail
Import your LinkedIn data, or copy a profile written from your CV.
We never post to LinkedIn for you.
Interview practice
Career path planner
Never miss a closing date or a follow-up. Track each application’s stage; your overview tells you what’s due, from “Closes in 2 days” to “Follow up: no reply after a week”.
Why trust it
You can. Here’s what’s different when every line has to stand up in an interview.
A general chatbot fills gaps with plausible numbers (“reduced costs by 30%”) you then have to defend.
Coffee & Excel asks for the number. If you don't give one, the line doesn't get one.
A general chatbot upgrades “helped with” to “led” because it reads better.
Coffee & Excel keeps your verb unless your answer says otherwise, and checks every rewrite against what you said.
A general chatbot writes a US-style résumé and guesses at qualification wording.
Coffee & Excel follows UK and Irish CV norms and words ACA, ACCA, CIMA and CFA status the way each body requires.
Our standards come from published guidance by UK and Irish recruiters and the professional bodies, including ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA, CFA Institute and the ACT. How we use AI
Try it now · free
See straight away what a finance reader would flag. With a free account, answer a couple of questions and get the line back rewritten with your facts only: the same engine that works through your whole CV.
Nothing you type here is stored.
Built for finance
FP&A analyst
Responsible for the monthly management accounts pack.
Prepared the monthly management pack for the leadership team across 4 business units, with variance commentary on revenue and gross margin
Audit senior
Audited various clients.
Ran the year-end audit of a £120m-turnover listed retailer as in-charge senior, leading a team of 4
Management accountant
Responsible for month-end.
Ran the month-end close for 3 UK entities, bringing reporting forward from working day 8 to day 5
Treasury analyst
Responsible for cash forecasting.
Built the 13-week cash forecast for 14 entities, used by the CFO to time a £40m revolving credit drawdown
Pricing
Free
€0
Get your CV in shape
Basic
€19 / month
For a steady job search
Advanced
€49 / month
For an intensive search
No. We build your CV from the lines you've confirmed. Suggestions reword or reorder what's already there, and when a line is vague we ask you questions so you can add the detail yourself.
No. Every suggested change is checked against your own evidence before you see it: numbers, names, tools and qualifications must come from what you've told us. If something is missing, we ask you about it rather than filling the gap.
We don't give you a score or a pass rate, because no one can honestly promise one. All four CV styles are single-column, real text in a sensible reading order, which applicant tracking systems read reliably.
Yes. You don't need a card. You get five starter credits, and uploading your CV, confirming it, analysing jobs and strengthening your lines (three rounds a day on the free plan) don't use credits at all.
Text-based PDFs, Word documents and plain text, up to 10 MB. Scanned PDFs (images of text) aren't supported yet.
Only you. AI helps read your CV and suggest wording, working only from what you tell us, and you can turn it off at any time in Privacy. You can also delete your account at any time, which removes your CVs, evidence, files and history straight away.