u/prodigyinspired

I've been applying for Analyst / Accountant roles for a year which look for around 2-4 years of experience.

My experience involves being in Audit for 3 years at Big 4, some banking client experience, mainly industrial / consumer companies, and being a FP&A Analyst at a Big 4 Bank for around a year. My exit at the Bank was due to redundancies. I'm CA Qualified as of last year and graduated with a Finance Accounting Degree. Have relatively okay GPA with awards in courses.

I think I'm stuck in an awkward place where I want to do FP&A related roles at relatively larger companies but don't have enough experience or skills to back it up. Recruiters have told me I can get around a 115k salary minimum but I haven't got any bites yet. I think I do choke in interviews - I used to be pretty confident in them when I just came out of the workforce but I think being out of the workforce for so long has made me a bit numb and not as confident in speaking.

I also think the market is just super rough, likely a lot of other people with better experience are just going for the same roles as I am.

Any thoughts?

I have a gift card to use for a nice dinner at one of their establishments. She prefers beef and seafood, pasta is also good. Oysters are also a strong plus. I don't really drink, she drinks wine occasionally but probably won't have much as I won't drink much.

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This is their restaurants I narrowed down, with wine bars removed (Dear Saint Eloise and Love Tilly Devine) and Fabricca being something I've been to, and is probably more casual than I'd like.

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• Letra House

• Palazzo Salato

• Ragazzi

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Leaning towards Ragazzi, heard good things always when looking for pasta recommendations.

I've been on and off searching for FPA roles for over 0.5 year now, is it worth it to renew my CA membership so I don't need to talk about it in my interviews that I need to renew it? Or just renew it when I do get a role? I am on a full membership as I just graduated last year.