I don’t believe there’s been one for 2026 so I wanted to start one up after seeing Canada’s.
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After a year and a half in an adjacent position, 270 (recorded but definitely couple hundred more) applications, and accepting a position for an accounting role a week before this position reached back out to me (I had given up), I’ve finally broken into actual FP&A.
I hope I like this because if not I’m going back to school LOL.
Taking all questions. AMA
I’m early career and want to secure a job with better long term growth trajectory. Therefore, the pay difference isn’t the end of the world (albeit nice), and the benefits aren’t either.
Currently, I’m in a Financial Analyst adjacent role (1.5 YOE) where I do mostly Financial Reports and interact with Financial Data (barely any forecasting/budgeting, minimal variance analysis). I feel stagnant in my role and so I wanted to leave despite really nice benefits.
I currently have two job offers on the table. Both are remote.
Job 1:
• Mid sized
• Recently PE backed (company is big on WLB still)
• 80K salary
• BU FP&A/Sales Finance
• Reporting and Analysis heavy with some FP&A functions
• 2 weeks PTO (with some sick and personal days)
Job 2
• Fortune 10
• 70K salary
• Financial Reporting (Statutory)
• Still has some analytical involvement with elements of Variance Analysis but most likely a lot further from FP&A work
• 3 weeks PTO
I want to go more towards Financial Analysis/FP&A and I feel like job 1 supports that more. I’ve also seen that people tended to get promoted quicker at job 1 and they’re about to face high growth very soon (hence adding people to the team). Both jobs seem to have super nice managers, but I’ve had the opportunity to talk to someone on the team at job 1 and have heard really good things about the manager.
Job 2 however has very standardized processes I think I could learn a lot from, and would have a lot of internal opportunities once I work there for a bit. One con is that I’ve seen a lot of reviews about subpar compensation compared to other companies as well as relatively slower growth (unless moving to a different department/team). Of course being a fortune 10, the resume name would be huge. Oh and by nature of it being more accounting adjacent, the month end/quarter end/year end processes will probably push me into OT more frequently than job 1.
If any questions, I can also add more.
I’m early career and want to secure a job with better long term growth trajectory. Therefore, the pay difference isn’t the end of the world (albeit nice), and the benefits aren’t either.
Currently, I’m in a Financial Analyst adjacent role (1.5 YOE) where I do mostly Financial Reports and interact with Financial Data (barely any forecasting/budgeting, minimal variance analysis). I feel stagnant in my role and so I wanted to leave despite really nice benefits.
I currently have two job offers on the table. Both are remote.
Job 1:
• Mid sized
• Recently PE backed (company is big on WLB still)
• 80K salary
• BU FP&A/Sales Finance
• Reporting and Analysis heavy with some FP&A functions
• 2 weeks PTO (with some sick and personal days)
Job 2
• Fortune 10
• 70K salary
• Financial Reporting (Statutory)
• Still has some analytical involvement with elements of Variance Analysis but most likely a lot further from FP&A work
• 3 weeks PTO
I want to go more towards Financial Analysis/FP&A and I feel like job 1 supports that more. I’ve also seen that people tended to get promoted quicker at job 1 and they’re about to face high growth very soon (hence adding people to the team). Both jobs seem to have super nice managers, but I’ve had the opportunity to talk to someone on the team at job 1 and have heard really good things about the manager.
Job 2 however has very standardized processes I think I could learn a lot from, and would have a lot of internal opportunities once I work there for a bit. One con is that I’ve seen a lot of reviews about subpar compensation compared to other companies as well as relatively slower growth (unless moving to a different department/team). Of course being a fortune 10, the resume name would be huge. Oh and by nature of it being more accounting adjacent, the month end/quarter end/year end processes will probably push me into OT more frequently than job 1.
If any questions, I can also add more.
I’m so tired 😭 went from a mid size decent company that I felt stagnant in to a Fortune 10 company for a 5k pay bump and slightly worse benefits (and remote).
I think a lot of rejections just came from my title. I was targeting mostly Financial Analyst type roles but ended up getting a Financial Reporting Analyst role. I only applied to 5-10 of the latter 😅.
AMA.
Was wondering if anyone was aware of what to expect with a Financial Reporting and Analysis (STAT) role at CVS Health. It seems like an entry level role with a required 0-2 YOE.
The posted pay range shows as $44K-$94K but that seems relatively broad. In the pre screening call I asked what was budgeted for the role and received an answer of ~$65K.
I’m assuming that the amount is probably around what I should expect but was wondering if anyone has worked there and if the $65k figure is pretty firm, or is there room to negotiate based on relevant experience? Also wondering if there seems to be good upwards mobility or anything else I should take note of.
Bonus question: If you’ve worked in this role, how heavily does it lean in just pure reporting/deliverables vs analytics?
Thanks!