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Lots of people have pivoted out of accounting. At the end of the day, it’s all about how relevant your experience is to the role you’re applying to. Accounting is very different from CorpDev/Strategy, so you will have to take roles that give you the relevant experience to be marketable for a role that would get you closer to your end goal. You might need to do this multiple times.
If you’re trying to land a corpdev role, be prepared to take a long route to get there. It typically goes TAS/FDD —> IB —> CorpDev. Not so sure about strategy though, but I can see someone doing FAAS —> EYP —> Corp Strategy