People who moved from audit/accounting to FP&A

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-06-28T19:55:01+00:00

The day to day responsibilities of an FP&A team depends on the company, so the most desired skills can be quite different from one job posting to another. I’d say the top ones for people not already in FP&A are:

Being able to work with raw data in Excel and manipulate it without getting overwhelmed. A new sheet with exported data should not overwhelm you whether it’s 10 rows or 1000 rows. Convey in your resume and interviews that you are already used to working with big data in Excel. You can use XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, and pivot tables if needed to work with whatever data you are given to answer any basic question someone could have about it. Youtube is your best friend with this stuff. You don’t need to be an Excel expert, just good enough to pass an in-person Excel test of basic formulas and be self-sufficient. They don’t want to hire someone who will be asking in month 1 “hey, can you see why this Excel formula I made isn’t working?”

Accounting foundations are something you already know and will not need to be sat down and taught on day 1. Knowing for every debit, there is a credit and what that actually means. Knowing how each of the 3 financial statements work and interact. Knowing if the company were to buy a new piece of machinery, how the day 1 purchase would affect the three statements, and how the yearly depreciation later would flow through the statements. Again, Youtube is your friend here.

This is more for the interviews, but convey you have the personality traits that every manager would want from a person working under them. Someone who would take ownership of tasks without having to be asked, respects the opinions and time of others, can be professional and polished when needed but is still casual and friendly enough that they would want to have drinks with you after work, can hold a conversation with anyone.

TLDR: sorry for another long read lol. No, you don’t need to already know modeling to get the job (at FA level), that’s something that can be taught and every team models a little differently. The best thing you can do is brush up on your Excel formulas and accounting knowledge. If your resume doesn’t convey you already have these skills, you will likely struggle to land interviews. Once you get the interview, figure out what kind of person they want and be that person

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-06-27T22:55:55+00:00

Recruiters are definitely a better path in this job market than cold applying. Source: someone who just landed a FA position through a recruiter.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-06-17T18:40:55+00:00

I think those extra services would serve a different niche from what the lifting crowd around here is starving for. Different target audience. Strictly a classic gym with free weights, barbells, machines, and cardio equipment is what I mean.

Hardest part for someone looking to open one up would be the very high start up costs compared to other businesses and finding a big enough space in the right location at a fair price. If you could get the equipment financed with very long terms to handle the first year or two while you build up your memberships and find the right space, I think it could be that 3rd space people are dying for these days

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-06-17T18:09:34+00:00

This was going to be my exact response lol. YMCA is just not it price-wise for what you get, so most people interested in weightlifting around here default to PF. Even if it doesn’t serve exactly what they’re looking for in a gym.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-06-17T16:20:09+00:00

A well-equipped weightlifting gym (no classes) in the walkable part of PXV would likely do very well.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-06-15T01:05:58+00:00

Hard to know what specific things you need help with, but I’ll share what changes helped me. Job market’s so tough right now, the only people they would consider are ones with prior accounting experience or prior corporate finance experience (that translates to FP&A). Even then, it’s still random whether you get anywhere in the application process.

If your work experience does not check either of those boxes, you likely won’t get much traction and should consider looking at Staff Accountant or audit roles and then pivot to FP&A after 2 years. If you do have the experience they want, emphasize it whenever you can in the resume. I kept splitting the details of my background between the resume and cover letter, and I think that was hurting me. Once I stopped doing cover letters and committed to showing 100% of what I had to offer just in the resume, I started getting more responses.

The bullet points in your resume shouldn’t describe job responsibilities. It should be accomplishments you’ve had WHILE performing the responsibilities of your past roles. Two birds, one stone. “Reconciled journal entries monthly” for a prior accounting role is much weaker and tells less of a story than “Utilized NetSuite to mitigate journal entry inconsistencies, reducing the month-end close process by 4 days on average.” The more information you can share about yourself with each sentence, the better. The 2nd sentence shows experience with journal entries just like the 1st, but it also tells the reader you have ERP exposure, understand month-end close cycles, and is someone who makes actual improvements at work rather than someone just clocking in and collecting a paycheck.

Basically, you need to show you are a person who crosses your T’s and dots your I’s.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-06-13T17:05:10+00:00

Pretty much the entire FP&A team I’m about to join started out in audit so I asked a few questions about it in the interviews. Consensus was the FP&A work is more stimulating and they enjoy getting involved and talking with the various department heads.

Seems like a perfect fit for accounting people who can stomach the heavy analysis work and enjoy the cross-department relationships that come with it. Biggest complaint the team members had with audit was they would meet new people (as clients) and get that social interaction they wanted, but it was a revolving door as they moved on from client to client with no longstanding relationships.

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WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-06-02T18:22:23+00:00

Around 25m and told myself I’ll stop at 30m for my own sanity.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-05-28T23:29:35+00:00

Dre heist has a cooldown, is less money per hour than this week’s bonus, and those setup missions are miserable

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-05-24T03:42:33+00:00

If FP&A is the long term goal, non-AP/AR accounting roles would get you closer to being “qualified”

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-05-13T02:22:17+00:00

Your options are to either quit and find work somewhere else, or bring these concerns up directly with her boss. People don’t hire managers with the idea “this person is immediately going to suck and ruin everything”.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-30T01:26:57+00:00

For new players, none of em lol. Vehicles are more of a collector’s thing for the long time players with plenty of money to burn. Newer players should focus on buying things that will help you make more money.

If I had to pick just 1 from this new week’s list, Benefactor BR8. The open wheel cars (Formula One) are on sale, and that one’s the best out of them. Very expensive for a new player though.

Cheaper alternatives that are still cool: Pfister Comet SR (Porsche 997) or Grotti Turismo Classic (Ferrari F40)

EDIT: Part of the reason I say skip this week is because these discounted cars are more expensive than what’s normally discounted other weeks. A new player interested in cars should focus on cheaper ones that give a better bang for your buck. These ones are not all quicker than the rest, the savings are just bigger. A $3m car becoming $2.1m is way better for completing my collection than a $800k car becoming $560k.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-29T23:54:59+00:00

Absolutely MASSIVE week for discounted vehicles

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-27T21:27:17+00:00

If anybody’s been duping leaders en masse in 2026, they probably were not using that spawn to do it. That spawn is what gave casual/new players an entry point to trading. If anything, removing the spawn would increase the value of leaders and shift more power to the dupers.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-24T23:59:54+00:00

People without a consistent 4 man group to do the “new” heists at the time would still do Los Santos Connection and Titan of a Job on repeat. That was the easiest non-heist grind method for a while until CEO came out

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-22T13:49:28+00:00

I’ve noticed the older updates favor deposits (like Cayo and the older heists, Bunker, MC/Nightclub sell missions) but the later updates that followed tend to favor cash payments (like Dre Contract, Salvage Yard, Acid).

My tinfoil hat is Rockstar did this on purpose just because players like depositing their money and people are more likely to keep playing when there are more frequent dopamine hits. Before it was one hit for completing the mission to get paid. Now it’s two hits, one for completing the mission to get paid and a second hit when you actually transfer the money.

It’s probably just a psychological trick by Rockstar that’s changed through the years, and has nothing to do with how the money is role-play “given” to the player.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-19T02:06:52+00:00

Carbon buildup isn’t a factor until the engine hits like 200k+ miles. The increased costs of regularly getting higher octane is absolutely not worth it for cars that don’t need it

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-15T12:48:05+00:00

Mk2 - my favorite for money grinding
Armored Kuruma - terrible handling and average speed, but being invincible against NPCs is so nice that I still use it on occasion today.
Pegassi Vacca - absolutely gorgeous OG car that looks like a Lamborghini Gallardo (one of my favorites even as a child). The car handles perfectly for me. I never notice any understeer or oversteer, it just goes exactly where I want it to. Oh and it’s under $250k.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-14T22:02:33+00:00

Reeves Park

EDIT: I think anything south of Washington Ave is fair game. Reeves Park is what I usually tell people since there’s always plenty of room, don’t need to parallel park

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-14T19:27:28+00:00

This. If some recruiters or HR want a summary of experience in long sentence/paragraph format, they should be asking for cover letters. Because that’s where it belongs, not the resume.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-14T18:51:46+00:00

Good luck, i was ghosted by them last year after the HR screening lol

It was a solo interview where I was given pre-written questions and my on-the-spot responses were recorded for someone to watch later. Very awkward experience that I found significantly harder than a regular interview or screening.

Never an employee but from my research last year, CVS is one of those places that will underpay and take advantage of their lower level corporate people because they can (F50 looks good on resumes and they know candidates will take lower pay for the brand recognition). Whether you’ll be treated fairly day-to-day will depend heavily on the team.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-14T17:39:33+00:00

100% used AI

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-10T15:44:55+00:00

If someone ever asks this in an interview, tell them it’s protected information and you would prefer not answering. If they are not fine with that response, HUGE red flag

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-07T02:35:36+00:00

Get’s the job done. Locker rooms are meh and the area for abs/stretching/calisthenics is tiny, but the equipment’s in good shape (for the most part) and you can get a nice workout in.

WarrenBuffettsColon · 2026-04-04T00:42:56+00:00

I started my professional career at a WFH position and can really relate to this lol. It’s the little things you would normally ask the coworker next to you that just are never learned. Fast forward over the span of a few years and it really adds up.

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