[nigercpa]

Hello everyone. I have a good offer from a company and also had the final interview for another big company. The second company I’m waiting on has a very good benefit compared to the one I’ve got the offer, but I don’t have an idea of the base salary pay. Can I reach out to the second company for an update or to speed the process? I would really want to work for the second company if they have a comparable base salary. Also job title differs. The company A that I have the offer has a title of Senior finance analyst and will be working closely with the supply chain operations. The offer I’m waiting on is an Accounting analyst – Treasury position. Though the hiring manager told me that the position was formerly referred to as senior accountant but was recently changed to account analyst. So based on the job titles, which would you advise I go with. Both companies are public companies so they are big. I will appreciate your responses.

Thanks!

Far - Passed 83
Aud - Passed 84
Bec - Passed 77
Reg- Passed 77

[CPYay]

Job title isn't as important as the responsibilities and upward/external mobility, especially for private.

If both have the mobility you're looking for, then focus on the compensation package and location (distance from home, somewhere you'd eventually move closer to, etc).

[nigercpa]

Thank you. The financial analysis responsibilities is more of analysis and reporting with 50% accounting and 50% analysis. while the second one is more transaction based with little or no analysis… almost completely accounting based.

Far - Passed 83
Aud - Passed 84
Bec - Passed 77
Reg- Passed 77

[CPYay]

How confident are you with your transactional accounting?

The 50/50 sounds intriguing to me, simply because analysis is more in line with management level responsibilities. Transactional accounting is great for building a foundation if you're not familiar with the kinds of activity in the respective industry.

[jyoung117]

I think it depends on what type of role you would enjoy more, the accounting role is more accuracy and looking backwards while the analyst role is more of a looking forward role.

At the company I'm at, I was in an accountant role and was eventually offered an analyst role which I took and personally I'm enjoying it (although I'm doing both jobs at the moment until we can hire a new person). The accounting job was repetitive for the most part, once I was in a rythym it was very routine. Even though I'm still new to this new position I can already see that it will be a lot of different challenges from day to day that will require more of a problem solving approach. Currently there are what if scenarios about how my company will move forward (recently switched CEOs) and I get to do a lot of projections on different cases which I find fun and challenging. My company isn't probably a medium size company edging more towards the small side so I am the only analyst (manager of FP&A left so I basically took his role but at a lower level), so my input goes a long way. I am definitely glad I went the analyst route but I have a very outside the box thinking mind that's very inquisitive but I think the fit is more to what you enjoy. If the position is higher up on the analyst chain, you may be required to do presentations to the leadership team, so if you wouldn't like that, that may be something to think about.

Oh also, I would say I end up working longer hours than when I was in an accountant position, but then again I am working both jobs at the moment.

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