Financial Operations or Strategy & Operations? Are they similar? Which is better for long run career growth?

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What do you want to do with your career long term? No they’re not similar, I think both set you on a good path but they’re different paths

I would do S&O then, I think it’ll set you up well for bizops. I’m under the impression Fin Ops could but it’d be a bit more of a pivot, whereas coming from S&O is pretty natural. Best of luck!

lol no, financial operations are back office roles. Yeah your work life balance is good but the pay is pretty mid. Look at Reddit and WSO, they are people who try to leave financial operations for front office roles and even strategy roles. Do strategy and operations

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