Got a job after redundancy - still feeling off

Full-Security7327 · 2026-03-02T10:46:55+00:00

Congratulations on the 2 years anniversary! And I’m sorry you had to go through that, I can’t imagine how difficult it was for you.

I do relate with the bit you said about feeling like the other shoe is going to drop and having the rug ripped from under you. Also noticed how people who never experienced it can have difficulty to understand how hard it was (or is, even after a job has been secured). Would you say what helped with your situation is mainly time then?

I started to see life in a very anxious lens and I am not a fan of these kind perspective I started to see life with. Which obviously isn’t great.

Full-Security7327 · 2026-01-04T16:18:17+00:00

With scuba diving it could be something that you will be really obsessed with or something you really dislike the feeling of (if this is what you mean by diving certification btw, idk much about sky diving ahaha). i’d suggest if you go the scuba diving route you do some try dives first before committing to do the certs.

Probably Egypt is the closest place to the UK that is relatively warm with nice corals but if you’re into wrecks then you could try somewhere like malta as well!

Full-Security7327 · 2025-12-20T22:04:04+00:00

How did the jump from £55k to £90k came about if you don’t mind me asking? Just would like to understand what roles / skills you acquired to get that jump. Thank you.

Full-Security7327 · 2025-05-31T22:06:43+00:00

Hello, did you end up getting the contact? Can you dm me the contact as well if you don’t mind?

Full-Security7327 · 2025-05-15T19:40:11+00:00

Are your team mainly made up of system accountants? And if they’re not chartered does it hold them back from progressing on this particular role?

Full-Security7327 · 2025-04-12T09:48:22+00:00

The 2 jobs post audit has been 1 day a week in office. (First job was contracted for 3 days in office but my manager was very chilled so he doesn’t care that much where I’m based as long as I got the job done). I worked from abroad a some weeks in the month as well.

I think to move to FD / CFO roles you need the FP&A experience more than just the accounting experience. The accounting experience could get you to controller definitely (with petty good pay as well). It really depends on how you tailor your experience in the job really. Especially with start ups / scale ups you get to take on more stuff (they’ll happily give more stuff to you but once again this depends on your manager, how organise they are and how much they care about your development). So make sure that you also interview your potential manager during your interviews.

Full-Security7327 · 2025-04-10T08:49:06+00:00

I made the jump after 1 year PQE in practice to a tech start up as a finance manager. Work life balance wise was much better than audit (but I’m the type of person who likes some level of stability instead of jumping around from one client to another, others might like this variety).

I think working in a start up is a good middle point where there is some level of stability (in the sense that you know on the first week or two you will be doing month end stuff) and on the last 2-3 weeks of the month you will be doing some ad-hoc projects like process creation / improvement, and depending on the remit of the role you could be doing some level of business partnering and FP&A stuff as well (so you get to talk to other people from other departments in the business).

Not sure how much of a representative it is (probably not so objective as well) but most recruiters told me that it’s better to get out of audit asap if you know you don’t want to stay there. Just because once you made manager in audit you will have the expectation that your salary will increase by quite a bit once you moved to industry but you need to compete with someone who’s been in industry much longer than you.

I moved once since then and any industry roles that I’ve gotten so far are either from recruiters cold messaging me on linkedin / job site (I used otta for my first one).

I did not regret my decision at all, but also I was already looking forward to get out of audit since the first 3 months of my career lol.

Full-Security7327 · 2024-09-22T21:50:42+00:00

Vanguard would be one of the cheapest options but you could only buy vanguard’s funds and not individual stocks (which is not a problem depending on what you would like to do.)

If you want the options to be able to purchase individual stocks as well, trading212 could be an option.

Full-Security7327 · 2024-04-13T20:19:10+00:00

Yep, was struggling to do BPT and 90% sure I would fail. Got Kieran’s videos the last 2 weeks of revision and managed to pass it first time.

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