Spreadsheet whiz, but my soul craves human connection. Thinking of ditching accounting for HR or recruiting. Anyone else made the leap from numbers to people? Tips, advice, warnings all welcome!

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Hi, have you considered financial roles within Human Resources or Resource Management (contingent workforce management).

I am a Financial Operations Analyst, I interact regularly with shared services, external staffing agencies, forecast, do advanced work with spreadsheets ect. It’s the best of both worlds. I also find my people skills are better than some peers and where I was a year ago

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