What’s with companies giving out “senior” controller or director roles and people actually being okay with this?

To me, it’s just a fake title and likely with incremental pay. What am I missing?

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Titles don't mean anything. I only care about the pay and the workload.

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What is the issue?

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What distinguishes someone between senior controller vs director and senior director vs vp?

Responsibilities are generally the same but you don’t get the title or pay of that next level.

Why not just call the role controller or director and pay them more if senior 🤷‍♂️

Well, I’d like to know in these companies whether there are multiple controllers or directors so that you need to establish some chain of authority. While they do similar jobs, one might have supervisory responsibilities over the other.

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You got "senior controller"? Congrats. I just made "Junior Senior Junior Junior Controller". Just like Senior Controller, but three weeks less vacation and $100k less salary. Maybe next year!

Titles aren't really relevant imo outside of showing some sort of progression throughout your career. As long as you have a good working environment and paid decently, all is right in the world.

Titles in industry are all over the map. I left to be “controller” at a tiny startup, then actually left that to be senior financial analyst somewhere more legit and with a pay raise.

I think in smaller businesses especially the title can be almost meaningless

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