Anyone here transitioned into a staff accountant role (reconciling differences, end of month balances, JE, etc). Is it better than tax in terms of work/life balance and how is the work?

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I transition out of staff accounts role to tax. Where I worked there was great wlb. It was also super boring and after working there for a couple months I was glad I was leaving.

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You will have better wlb. You also have month end and quarter end reporting deadline every month. They last about a week after month close. You might need to work weekend during those busier times. Then the dept might assign you ad hoc projects randomly; mostly gathering data n generating report and findings. The difficult part for me was generating and understanding the data. Personally I would get the hell out of tax since the career path is so narrow. But I’m also trying to gtfo of accounting

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