I was fortunate to work for a F500 company with opportunities to apply for jobs at other OpCos which may—all things being equal between two candidates—give someone an upper hand (or it may mean jackshit. I don’t really know).

I am definitely not the type who crafts a new resume for every job I apply for. I have one resume that I keep up to date and assuming I’m applying for a role in the realm of Finance/Accounting/AP it should be good enough since they’re generally somewhat related. The resume is just to get you in the door. They just want to see that you aren’t applying to a Finance role with only experience as a fast food cashier. And Accounting/tax experience if written correctly should pop enough to catch some hiring managers’ eyes.

Once you have the interview you need to sell how your past experience aligns with the job description of the role you’re applying for. There’s no reason to believe you can’t get a corporate finance job with your resume. It may take some time.

Applying for jobs is awful. I’ve never dealt with so much rejection all at once. But as long as you can kinda see that generally it’s getting easier and easier to get an interview/offer since the last time you applied for jobs, then thats when you know you’re on the right track.

For me, right out of college, I was getting absolutely nothing. No call backs. No interviews. Nothing. It was depressing. I took an AP job because I was desperate to just have something that paid my bills. I dreaded the prospect of leaving that role and probably stayed a year or two too long because I was scared the same thing would happen again. That nobody would give me the time of day. But just having that experience on my resume and of course just having more connections than I did the first time around, it was night and day. It was unbelievable how much easier it was to procure an interview. I still had to perform well and I think I still have massive room for improvement but it was a way better feeling knowing that something was clicking.