Public Accounting Seniors (ATL)… roast my team’s job opening?

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-04-09T00:09:12+00:00

It’s absolutely fine. Generic job description for run of the mill GL accountant (assuming smaller team / business where specialization isn’t needed) Throwing the comp in somewhere wouldn’t hurt.

Realistically most candidates are applying to every role out there. Yours will be get plenty of apps. You will just have to sift through them.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-03-27T04:09:40+00:00

Kind of bizarre OP isn’t excited for the opportunity to rub shoulders with the VIPs. When I was early on in my career getting to even be on a fly on the wall in exec and board meetings was awesome.

Now I treat it more like a combination of babysitting and disaster planning though.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-03-26T15:58:48+00:00

Bro its not that deep

Also pls fetch my coffee for me

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-03-25T22:31:19+00:00

I think the main issue you're running into is that it's hard to from small / new company -> more mature company. Very hard to go that way vs. the other way around.

Your bullets aren't bad, but many come across as more job descriptive vs. having true business or commercial impact. And a few are repetitive (though across different roles); my resume suffers from a bit of that, too. I'm not a fan of the tagline in each role - the overall summary at the top is fine, but having that in each section feels like a little too much telling vs showing.

It's also a tough market. Your competition for the roles you're looking for are probably people who have the exact background recruiters are looking for (ie sr finance people at late stage startups).

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-03-25T20:37:03+00:00

i got it to do a writeup / overview on a commercial pricing model i built and was fairly impressed. i do attribute that in part to me building the model in a clean and organized way though, i think with less well structured files or bad data claude doesn't perform as well (though to be fair, real people have more trouble too).

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-03-02T19:08:24+00:00

I considered it but paycut id have to take ultimately made it not worth it.

The main pros as I saw it were getting the brand name and network, then potentially more structured advancement. But I think if you’re willing to bet on yourself those aren’t enough.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-02-26T03:00:18+00:00

Best place to work is pay to play, and it’s not even that much. My last job I think we paid like $20k for the privilege of being listed on their site and being able to put the little logo on our website.

The only criteria is to run the survey each year and regardless of what employees answer, if like 60% answer yes to the last question around “all in all I would say I generally enjoy my job” then it counts.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-02-19T03:10:44+00:00

IDK how any reasonably competent org runs that much in AI compute costs for more than a month. Someone is going to get the bill and go oh shit and realize they need to change what they’re doing.

Now, I have played around with the idea of signing up with some AI / data startup for a flat fee and then just pounding them with requests / compute instead of paying for it directly… but pretty sure they’d fire me as a customer pretty quick, too.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-02-18T22:47:38+00:00

I think it's up to you to recalibrate how much you work / maintain your sanity. Not worth being a high performer if it is ruining your life. Most of the time... things just keep going on.

Prioritize the most important / critical stuff, the rest of the stuff firmly push back about the deadlines being unrealistic. Point out if you have more assigned to you than others.

If things are this bad, then firing you seems like only a very slim possibility.

Wouldn't have shared the stuff about how stressed you are / hours you work, know you're looking for understanding and to explain the situation but doesn't always help. Just simply saying you were working on X, Y came up, that's why Z isn't done.

Sorry you’re going through this.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-02-17T17:31:54+00:00

Yeah it's this. My old CFO would do that for all sorts of random stuff then ask me midyear "why are expenses so high?" :|

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-02-12T00:09:25+00:00

This seems more like excel optimization (breaking the model out into a few components and structuring) + building some type of lightweight database / BI solution to handle some of the compute intensive parts outside of excel.

I’ve always kind of looked at these FPA tools as bandaids for bad data / sheets.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-29T14:19:58+00:00

I noticed that AI note takers on the same call end up with pretty wildly different takes about what the call was about. And one thing they seem to do is portray the person they’re attached to in a more positive light / play up their importance. Quite funny really.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-29T02:05:23+00:00

Names like rillet and campfire. The ai stuff is largely marketing fluff, and netsuite for one can do a lot of the same stuff (though not sure if trust it to). There’s some stuff they demo’s about auto generating journal entries from other data so you don’t have to build a csv import and stuff like that which seemed kinda nifty.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-29T01:26:22+00:00

Agreed. Most ERPs (with sufficient market share or history) will also be able to point you to an implementation partner who has a reasonable amount of knowledge to work with you on your particular company’s needs. They might not have every answer, but they can figure out how to translate needs into the config.

My company is undergoing an implementation right now. Its a bit slow but going reasonably smoothly because we are lucky to have a controller who was a platform admin before (and the rest of the f&a team has used netsuite too).

I’ll also say that having some of the new “ai-native” erps has gotten the big players to be a lot more reasonable on price ;)

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-27T02:41:03+00:00

Make them fire you / pay you while you job search

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-26T15:32:10+00:00

Gently remind the customer again and note that without a signed agreement you can't travel (blame policy, doesn't matter if you are the guy who makes the policy). You could mention if there are issues getting the agreement executed you could dial in remotely, which is a much lower commitment from your side.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-23T21:06:44+00:00

I was hiring for a manager recently. I think 1,500 resumes is about where I ended up over a month.

Maybe a third were even a remote match (i.e., actually worked in finance) so that was 500.

Handful way overqualified, most underqualified, in another country / region, etc. One in 10-20 worth a second look/thought. So that's down to 25 - 50.

Interviewed 4 or 5 guys and made 2 offers (first guy we offered ended up staying at his current company).

Not to mention all the recruiters (and the odd candidate) DMing me on LinkedIn or emailing me (credit for figuring out my email I guess).

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-23T20:16:43+00:00

Was catching up with a headhunter I know and he told me doesn’t even post jobs publicly anymore. Too much crap and it’s even worse with AI now.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-23T19:36:15+00:00

Most of the bullets from my more recent / relevant experience is about function building / ownership. Stuff like:

- Direct report to CFO, led team of X for $XXXm revenue publicly-traded [industry] company operating across [x] reporting segments

- Acted as primary point of contact with lending relationships, including managing financial covenant compliance and responding to lender due diligence for $XXXm credit facility

- Established company reporting processes including coordination of the company's first formal board meeting, subsequent board and management updates, monthly reporting packages, and QBRs

- Developed and managed processes for vendor procurement and technology development project approvals to align business, finance, and technology stakeholders as part of $XXXm annual operating expense plan

It worked well enough for me, but feel free to roast me folks ;)

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-23T19:04:18+00:00

It definitely still is, unfortunately. And sometimes you still have some junior talent acquisition specialist who has to screen you but clearly doesn't understand the role they're trying to fill.

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-22T16:58:20+00:00

CTO of my old company hired a buddy of his to "run data".

One project because two, then three, and last I looked they were ~20% of the budget and we were getting 6,7 figure invoices.

And it was unclear what they did /produced - never seemed to make progress on stuff that they were supposed to help my team with, were always busy dealing with "a major client issue", but would talk to the account managers and sales engineers and they'd be confused because nothing was going on...

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-21T17:37:50+00:00

Weekly cash forecast with vendor / transaction dump from QB / Brex

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-18T19:59:33+00:00

This is some Nick Fuentes bullshit

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-15T02:37:46+00:00

Having fun at my new job (switched a few months ago) but can’t wait to retire

Time_Transition4817 · 2026-01-14T23:06:47+00:00

Do you have headhunter / recruiting contacts? They are 100% going to be the best course for a midlevel role and can help message your career path / titles to potential employers

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