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I learned it on my own via YouTube, LinkedIn learning, etc. Made it a huge point that I understood both the accounting (B4/CPA) and the finance (modeling, understanding business drivers, business partnering) to be a good fit.
It is definitely much easier to make the swtich at the associate or senior associate level. At manager it may be more worth it to take an accounting manager job and transfer internally to their finance group. One of our Finance VPs went from financial reporting to FP&A at the manager level.
Also, a lot of FP&A roles are just fancier accounting roles with some forecasting sprinkled in. You could always jump to one of those first, then pivot from there into "sexier" FP&A roles that eliminate the accounting duties entirely and focus on forecasting + strategic projects (this is where I am now). Maybe even go a step further and go to a strategic finance or corp dev role that is purely M&A/strategy focused (less concerned about month to month forecast variances).