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Sample ATS-friendly CV: Business Analyst

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[Your Name]

Business Analyst · Requirements & Process Improvement

[City] · [email@example.com] · [Phone] · [linkedin.com/in/yourname]

Summary

Business analyst with 4 years turning business needs into clear requirements that teams can build. Skilled at running workshops, mapping processes and using data to support decisions.

Skills

Requirements elicitation · User stories & acceptance criteria · Process mapping (BPMN) · SQL & Excel · Gap analysis · Workshop facilitation · Jira / Confluence · UAT coordination

Experience

Business Analyst2022 – Present

[Company], [City]

Gathered and documented requirements for a claims system used by 1,200 staff.
Mapped and redesigned an approval process, cutting turnaround from 5 days to 1.
Led UAT with 25 business users and reduced post-launch defects by 40%.

Junior Business Analyst2020 – 2022

[Company], [City]

Wrote 200+ user stories with clear acceptance criteria for 3 product teams.
Built Excel and SQL reports that tracked process KPIs for operations leads.

Projects

Approval process redesign

BPMN, Visio, Jira

Mapped the as-is and to-be approval process, removed 4 hand-offs and cut turnaround from 5 days to 1.

Requirements pack for a claims system

Confluence, user stories, UAT

Ran 12 workshops and wrote the requirements, user stories and UAT scripts for a system used by 1,200 staff.

Education

B.Tech / BBA — [University], 2020

Certifications

IIBA ECBA / CCBA
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Keywords recruiters search for

Use the ones that are true for you, in the same words.

Business analysis
Requirements gathering
User stories
Process mapping
BPMN
Gap analysis
SQL
UAT
Jira
Confluence
Stakeholder management
Agile

What each section is for

Summary: Three lines: role title, years of experience, and the two or three strengths the job ad asks for.
Skills: Use the exact wording from job ads ("Power BI", not "BI tools"). ATS filters match words, not meaning.
Experience: Most recent first. Each bullet: action verb, what you did, and a number that shows the result.
Projects: Show the tools you used and the outcome. This is where freshers and career-changers prove their skills.
Education: Degree, subject, institution, year. Keep it to one line once you have work experience.
Certifications: List the full official name so it matches what recruiters search for.

ATS formatting checklist

One column, no tables, text boxes, images or icons
Standard headings: Summary, Skills, Experience, Projects, Education
A plain font (Arial, Calibri) at 10–12 pt
Dates in one format, e.g. 2022 – Present
Contact details in the body, not the page header
Save as a text-based PDF or Word file, never a scanned image
Tailor the keywords to each job you apply for

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Sample ATS-friendly CV: Business Analyst

Pick a role and we'll show you what a strong, ATS-friendly CV for it looks like: the skills, projects and keywords recruiters look for. Use it as a template, then come back and check yours for free.