Looking for career advice.

Just completed 3 years in a corporate finance role and completed ACCA qualification. Looking for the next step in my career along with a change in geography. Have been working in top 10 accountancy firm in Ireland and want to move to the western European region.

What kind of opportunities should i be looking for and what career options do I have.
Woulf really appreciate your advice. Happy to share my CV and other details if anyone is willing to help me.

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Best bet is probably Luxembourg, Amsterdam or Frankfurt as these are all very international and english-language friendly. Luxemburg has a lot of investment funds where fund accounting experience may come in handy. Frankfurt has a lot of foreign banks where some international accounting experience will be useful. Amsterdam has a a lot of international firms and is very english friendly. Although the ACCA in itself isn’t directly useful here since it is more of UK title the IFRS knowledge can be transferred to larger (listed) corporates. I’m with PwC and I think this type of experience would probably be very useful in our CMAAS department (capital markets accounting and advisory services) as they work quite strongly with IFRS.

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Thank you very much for your insight. This helped me a lot.

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