Every finance job I interview for seems to have its own version of what strategic means. One role said it was high-level strategy, but the actual work was running daily variance reports for three different teams. Another said you’ll own strategic planning, but really meant I’d be patching gaps from an understaffed ops team. How do you figure out if a role is truly strategic or just chaotic with a nice label?

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Some people use ‘strategic’ to mean ‘long term’. So a three year financial plan they use the word ‘strategic’. Others use the word to describe an individual who works in a leveraged way (setting events in motion that affect a lot of people might be called ‘strategic leadership’ even though it could just be a lot of power/influence).

Chaos is indirectly related- you could have a team writing the strategy for an entire bank with a chaotic manager and work schedule (so chaos and ‘strategy’), or you could have a leader whose chaotic approach to work makes it impossible to ever settle on a stable path, undermining anything ‘long term’ (which as we mentioned could be what some mean by ‘strategic’).

I think you’re maybe wanting an impactful role with organised management who give clear direction. I think the word ‘strategic’ isn’t the marker you’re really looking for?

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