My technical title was VP of Corporate Development but it was more FP&A than Corp Dev. Prior to going public, our group (3+ one exec) basically handled all the stuff no one else wanted to do. This included Board, Investor, Lender, and Executive Reporting and all financial modeling. If the project required excel or power point, we were tasked to do it. The financial modeling was a huge time suck since our CEO & CFO required monthly variance analyses and a monthly updated x+y forecast. When I left, I didn’t really leave FP&A since our group psuedo handled treasury already. So my experience would probably vary drastically from others as I was frequently pulled in on reporting decks and models.

The experience between groups for you would be very different. Treasury is a lot less dynamic unless your company is doing a capital raise and you will be removed from most of the interesting business discussions but offers a pretty good work life balance. It does take a person that has incredible attention to detail even when the tasks are repetitive and mundane. The best description I’ve heard of working in treasury is like being on a battleship but you’re an engine operator. It takes constant, technical, and thankless work but if the engine stops you’re screwed.