I feel stuck in my career, 4 years being a senior accountant and prior to this 5 years of accounting roles from intern to staff to accountant. how do I move to the next step - accounting manager with no significant managerial/supervisory experience. I have a cpa.

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are you not in charge of projects where you have to delegate work to associates? That's managing. I'd apply to firms as a supervisor. Maybe tell them you've only had a small team, 2 or 3 at a time., but are ready to have a larger one.

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I don’t have anyone to delegate work to, it’s just me doing the accounting, audit and tax for one part of the organization. Every senior accountant has a designated area/specialty and report to either director of accounting or the controller. So there’s no room for growth in terms of title or work. I’ve asked the controller if I could take more work since getting cpa but no feedback since 2 years.

I was senior for a loong while before being promoted. I had no managerial experience either. Some of my peers rather be seniors again. You just learn as you go. Be fair, reward those give you good work and don't be the person that people black list even though you secretly really hate some of these people asses then you can delegate your work to good people instead of doing it all yourself.

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