Role vs industry?

I would love to be in a strategic role in my industry of choice (Tech), but I ended up with the two offers after some interviews:

- Corp Dev analyst role at a small F500 industrial company (director plans to expand overseas for the next few years). Manager is keen to train me up.

- FP&A analyst role in Post-ipo tech, seems run of the mill budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.

Are Corp Dev roles industry dependent? Can i transition out to a diff industry later?

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Quite a few senior people (Director+) I met who did FP&A hated it and thought it was boring. Your planning doesn’t really matter and you have no power/influence over people to make sure they stay within your projections/analysis. For all intend and purpose, you are Risk. During normal time, people either don’t care or hate you. During bad time, you share the blame for either bad planning or failure to gain buy-in from stakeholders on the importance of financial planning

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