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I’m not a fan so far, I use to work for a smaller company and now I’m part of a really big corporation. I find that they are out of touch from a lot of aspects. Only pushing for more and more cash and big gross margins. Not caring about any factors involved. I miss my old job a lot of times because they would have much better communication and have realistic expectations,
Thank you for the honest feedback! It’s difficult when you’re treated like AI, and expected to produce as such. My company is actively looking for suggestions on how to produce twice as much with half the staff.
I am having a great at experience in working FP&A, I spent the last 7 years of my career and it only got better. I also worked in two different industries (automotive & IT) which are really different. Something important is that is really tricky to succeed at FP&A because you have to guide people to achieve company goals that sometimes are not aligned to your stakeholders, and you have to “show them the way”. The great thing is how much exposure you get to senior members of the organization and how that helps boost your career (if you are good at it).
I’m going to second everything from above. I’ve been in FP&A for 12 years and love it. It’s basically building the plan and then holding the leaders accountable to the plan. It’s a niche I am glad I am in. Lots of top level exposure and you get to be hands on in helping produce results.
I love FP&A, the work is dynamic and interesting. I enjoy working with my business partners to leverage data to solve problems. The work life balance is great and for the work and stress level the pay is awesome
Wow this is amazing thank you for sharing gives me hope that I don’t need a career change maybe just the current company.
What do you do in corporate finance? Mostly make things more complicated than they need to be.
It's great, but your experience will depend on the company. At a mid sized company, you can get a very broad range of exposure and work that you wouldn't at a F500, but you'll get a lot more depth and complexity at the larger companies.
I moved from accounting to treasury and I love it!
I've been in both and FP&A and Treasury are widely different. There are always more opportunities for FP&A since Treasury teams are generally smaller as only larger companies would need a capital markets, fx team or stock administration team (meaning they issue bonds, pay stock compensation, and have revenues/opex overseas). Cash operations is less interesting since you mainly work with bank settlements and cash management. I just do not like FP&A personally and chose to go with Treasury. Since it's kind of niche, there may not be many opportunities to switch jobs in treasury but wlb is much better than FP&A, pays well (for large companies) and if there are indeed job openings somewhere, there may be less competition.