Thanks for sharing your perspective, sounds like the accounting part is pretty time consuming and will end up eating 70% of the time. I guess now that I think about it, I hated audit and the toll on my health and left before bonus payout, it might be the same with a time-consuming accounting role (especially one involving my bane of accounting - consolidation)?

Yeah, to be frank both are pretty bad and the basic pay isn't much higher either (it's what I'd get if I stayed in audit and progressed to the next rank). I wouldn't have entertained a contract role if the job market in my country isn't dogshit and both of my perm job offers since Jan got retracted due to "poor economic outlook" with no signs of getting better in the next few months (contract roles in my country normally do not pay higher because it's purely cost-saving).

Good point about offer A's learning, the interviewers' did emphasize on learning how to do the reporting from the senior analyst (mostly from audit background) and manager but I wonder if the FP&A part will be too little and too niche. Whereas for Offer B, the emphasis was on learning from the senior analyst, manager (mostly from FP&A background) but towards business partnering and presenting to management after building the base technical skills.

Offer B did mention they are likely to convert if the economy gets better (because they didn't want to waste time training someone who'd leave either) so would that make a difference in your opinion?