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This is cursed.
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Look for a new job. It’s a bad match. They don’t know how to train and grow you, and there is nothing you can do. While good companies grow and train their employees it’s not a legal requirement to do so.
Find a new job and give em the 2 finger salute and go out guns blazing. Is the CFO 🔥?
Let me also say the person who is reviewing my work is the controller who gives me the okay to post but when I do I’m still getting penalized for the errors. How is it that someone who doesn’t know what they are looking is reviewing my work and also missing the errors but I’m the one who is on the PIP.
As a fellow staff accountant I can say I been through the same. You get little to know training and they expect you to know the ins and outs of an account or task. We are at the bottom so we get the blame unfortunately :(
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To be fair, yes, when something gets to the CFO it should be 100% perfect. Her review should be confirming that it is correct, nothing more.
At least for items that a staff accountant would be the preparer on. For more complex items requiring more experienced staff, she’ll probably have more input.
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You’re missing the point.
At your level, yes, it is normal for items sent to you for review to have mistakes — both in terms of careless errors and not understanding the accounting. It is your job to catch them.
By the time it gets to the CFO, you and your supervisor should have caught all the mistakes.
Like I said, something in this story doesn’t add up and the most likely cause is OP is skipping a level of review and direct submitting to the CFO for review, which is a problem. Whether it’s their problem or their supervisor’s problem is a different question.
Also if they’re a direct report to the CFO and they have that many issues it likely means they’re not the best fit for the position.
Doesn’t appear the CFO can manage any process , probably mess up the PIP too. Look and don’t do anything rash.
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The CFO truly believes by the time work get to
Her it should be 100% perfect nothing & she should have to review nothing. In this case how are you a CFO if you don’t review anything or am I in the wrong?
It should be near perfect by the time it gets to the CFO. Guess it depends on the size of the company though.
Why subject yourself to such nonsense. There's a whole world out there! So many people on power trips in large corporations.
You and I must work for the same company.
If they put you on a PIP they plan on firing you.
Don’t wait. I got the job in September, I went through what you did with the junior accountant, my boss was horrible at delegating work since she didn’t trust us. I got blamed for the errors the junior made (since we were never fully trained, and got fired by the CEO in January after giving him his monthly reports (I guess they weren’t up to snuff). I took the fall for systemic failures in the department. I started looking for another job too late. I knew something was coming after the holidays. Now I’m a 50-year-old stuck without unemployment (PA needs 18 months of continuous employment) in a job market that sucks.
Leave. They're probably trying to consolidate your position with another position to save money.