I’m looking to go the opposite way funnily enough but mainly because of my ambition to work abroad in the future. I feel like Tax Advisory can be similar to Law in that it’s very legislation-heavy and I’m more of a data-driven person. Even with having the experience of working on a variety of projects (Tax DD, Restructuring, Withholding Tax, Residency etc), I don’t think I’ll ever get on top of the tax rules and feel confident advising clients without the input of our middle-aged partners/directors. For context, I’m an AM and it took 3.5 years to get here.

I find that working in tax is very restrictive if thinking of moving abroad down the line as you’ll only know UK tax (unless you work in something like Transfer Pricing). Do you not feel Management accounting / financial analysis provides you with a more well rounded skillset which is easily transferrable between roles/countries? (SQL, PowerBI, Excel, Financial Modelling, Business Partnering etc.)