I’m considering a switch to either FDD or FP&A after my second year in PA. I feel like the only reason for staying in PA is the constant growth. Can anyone speak on the growth opportunities in something like FP&A? I know it will likely take longer.

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Good luck getting into FDD at this time

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Try FDD but it maybe easier to get that senior promotion first. FP&A is ehh.

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FDD is hands down the place for growth. You can easily exit to fp&a, traditional accounting and opens doors to investment banking, corp dev, many have switch to consulting or rx, at minimum most will do well for T15 MBA. People have exited to many things from FDD. Best exits just take some networking and some work.

However, like others have said FDD is now extremely competitive and recruiting is literally shut down at big 4 so options are limited.

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FDD is a great opportunity but it’s going to be a challenge to break into right now without experience.

You could do FP&A and come back to FDD when spots are open.

FDD is probably superior from a growth/progression standpoint and opening your doors.

FP&A is going to take a lot of time unless you exit straight into a manager FP&A role. Even so once you hit manager there’s no guarantee for a senior manager or director role unless you move jobs or the person above you quits. It takes at least 4 years at a normal company to see any type of promotion and you’d have to be the most senior person on your team and hope that there is an open role above you by then. This is why in industry you’d see people who are still seniors with 10 years of experience or managers with like 10 years of experience.

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