Maiki Lynch: Hey there, I'm Maiki Lynch and I'm an accountant. I know,
Maiki Lynch: I know... I work with numbers, but I like to
Maiki Lynch: think I'm a people person too. However, unless you're an accountant,
Maiki Lynch: or working in finance, or you are best mates with
Maiki Lynch: someone who is, I bet I know what you're thinking... "
Maiki Lynch: What do accountants actually do?" " Don't you have to be
Maiki Lynch: really good at maths?" " What does it mean to work
Maiki Lynch: in finance?" " Isn't it super boring and stressful and just
Maiki Lynch: lots of messing around with spreadsheets?" Well, the thing is,
Maiki Lynch: we all do a lot of different things. We didn't
Maiki Lynch: all win maths prizes at school. Many of us didn't
Maiki Lynch: even go to uni, and we've all had our unique
Maiki Lynch: journeys to getting here. So, in this new series from ACCA,
Maiki Lynch: I'm sitting down with some real- life accountants and people
Maiki Lynch: who work in finance to bust some of the myths
Maiki Lynch: that you might not even realist you believe about this
Maiki Lynch: amazing career path. We'll be cracking open the core of
Maiki Lynch: what it's actually like. From the happy moments -
Angelika Cyrulinska: I cried, to be honest. I cried with happiness.
Maiki Lynch: To the bumps in the road.
Ravi Tanna: My confidence was really knocked.
Maiki Lynch: And the silliness in between.
Shaun Fenwick: Going out to t he tap room and drinking loads of
Shaun Fenwick: free beer, which is brilliant.
Maiki Lynch: Welcome to By All Accounts. Now, I did my accountancy
Maiki Lynch: training back in 2011, starting off working on the sales
Maiki Lynch: ledger and progressing through to becoming a management accountant. And
Maiki Lynch: even though I now work in education for ACCA, I
Maiki Lynch: still remember the looks I got when I told people
Maiki Lynch: that I was training to be an accountant. I'd say
Maiki Lynch: the number one thing that went unsaid was, " Isn't that
Maiki Lynch: going to be really boring?" So I found two people
Maiki Lynch: who currently work in accounting and finance to ask, is
Maiki Lynch: your job really boring? First up, Angelika Cyrulinska. Welcome.
Angelika Cyrulinska: Hiya.
Maiki Lynch: And Remi Allen- Bond. Hello.
Remi Allen-Bond: Hi. Nice to meet you.
Maiki Lynch: So, what do you reckon? Is finance really boring?
Angelika Cyrulinska: I wouldn't say it's really boring. I would say, for example,
Angelika Cyrulinska: my current job, I'm involved in so many different things
Angelika Cyrulinska: that you wouldn't typically think an accountant would be involved with.
Angelika Cyrulinska: And I think that is what makes my job fun
Angelika Cyrulinska: on a daily basis - it's the reason why I will
Angelika Cyrulinska: continue to be an accountant probably for the rest of ...
Angelika Cyrulinska: Until I retire!
Maiki Lynch: I was just about say that's quite a commitment there!
Angelika Cyrulinska: Yeah, I know
Maiki Lynch: Till death do we part!
Angelika Cyrulinska: Yeah. Maybe not in the same position I'm at, but
Angelika Cyrulinska: I don't think, when I first started, I imagined I'll
Angelika Cyrulinska: be an accountant forever. I think I wanted to get
Angelika Cyrulinska: the qualification to open up a bit more opportunity for
Angelika Cyrulinska: myself. But, it wasn't until I started my current role
Angelika Cyrulinska: that I thought actually this isn't anything I expected. And
Angelika Cyrulinska: I think that my job alone now opens even more
Angelika Cyrulinska: opportunities to things that are not typical accountant roles, I guess.
Maiki Lynch: Can I ask... you talk about what you perhaps expected
Maiki Lynch: it to be. Did you expect that it was going
Maiki Lynch: to be boring, potentially?
Angelika Cyrulinska: I did. I thought it was going to be a
Angelika Cyrulinska: lot of data entry and Excel spreadsheets and that's all
Angelika Cyrulinska: the job entailed. But, I think when I first started
Angelika Cyrulinska: my job as an auditor, it was more just analyzing data,
Angelika Cyrulinska: drawing conclusions from the data and then applying it to decision- making,
Angelika Cyrulinska: which I obviously didn't expect. I definitely thought it was not going to
Angelika Cyrulinska: be the funnest job. And definitely when I tell people
Angelika Cyrulinska: I'm an accountant, I get some funny looks like, " Oh,
Angelika Cyrulinska: you must be a fun person to be around!" I
Angelika Cyrulinska: think people have an expectation of what you're like. But,
Angelika Cyrulinska: I wouldn't say that's true at all, based off myself
Angelika Cyrulinska: and my friends.
Maiki Lynch: Remi, if I can just bring you into the conversation
Maiki Lynch: about is it boring? Do you think finance is boring?
Remi Allen-Bond: Not at all. No. I think like Angelika was saying there,
Remi Allen-Bond: it is massively varied. So, my journey in finance, I've
Remi Allen-Bond: done three different roles in the past four- ish years,
Remi Allen-Bond: from your day- to- day corporate accounting reporting to working
Remi Allen-Bond: in treasury for a bank, to working in strategy, corporate development.
Remi Allen-Bond: And all of those I've been able to do because
Remi Allen-Bond: I trained as an accountant. So, I think there's a
Remi Allen-Bond: lot more to accounting and to accountancy qualifications than just
Remi Allen-Bond: do an accounting, necessarily. So, even if accounting isn't for
Remi Allen-Bond: you, there are still many, many things that you can do with
Remi Allen-Bond: it outside of core accounting.
Maiki Lynch: I love to hear that and I completely agree with
Maiki Lynch: what you both said about the breadth of roles that
Maiki Lynch: can be offered. Angelika, I wonder if I can come
Maiki Lynch: back to you. Where are you working at the moment and
Maiki Lynch: what is it that your job entails?
Angelika Cyrulinska: So, at the moment I work at Mercedes- Benz as
Angelika Cyrulinska: a finance business partner. And my two areas that I
Angelika Cyrulinska: look after is investments and facilities. So, I basically look
Angelika Cyrulinska: at the projects that we invest our money into and
Angelika Cyrulinska: also the costs of running our building and stuff like that. So,
Angelika Cyrulinska: I work with a lot of my business partners to
Angelika Cyrulinska: see how we can work more efficiently and to save
Angelika Cyrulinska: costs where we can, but still get the same quality.
Maiki Lynch: That's fantastic and that sounds like a very exciting workplace.
Maiki Lynch: What reaction do you normally get when people ask you
Maiki Lynch: where you work and what you do?
Angelika Cyrulinska: People are quite surprised that I work at Mercedes. I think
Angelika Cyrulinska: a lot of people expect you to work for an
Angelika Cyrulinska: accountancy practice. I think a lot of my friends, initially
Angelika Cyrulinska: when I said I was an accountant, people come to
Angelika Cyrulinska: me with tax questions quite often. So, I think people
Angelika Cyrulinska: don't necessarily take into account that you can work for
Angelika Cyrulinska: so many different industries. And, if you're interested in something,
Angelika Cyrulinska: you can work in that industry, whether that's music or
Angelika Cyrulinska: fashion or cars, for example. You can go into that
Angelika Cyrulinska: industry still and work in the finance section.
Maiki Lynch: Do you like it? And if you do, what do
Maiki Lynch: you like about it?
Angelika Cyrulinska: I do really like it. I like the people I
Angelika Cyrulinska: get to work with. I get to work with and
Angelika Cyrulinska: collaborate with many people throughout the business that are doing
Angelika Cyrulinska: different things that aren't anything finance- related. And I really
Angelika Cyrulinska: enjoy talking to them and being able to have an
Angelika Cyrulinska: insight into... not the finance sector I guess, which I
Angelika Cyrulinska: deal with, but also their challenges and what they're looking
Angelika Cyrulinska: to do and then help them and have an input.
Maiki Lynch: So, you're working with lots of different teams throughout the
Maiki Lynch: organization who aren't necessarily your finance function at Mercedes?
Angelika Cyrulinska: Yep.
Maiki Lynch: Remi, I'd like to come to you and just to hear about
Maiki Lynch: your job. Can you tell us where you work and what it is that you do?
Remi Allen-Bond: So, I work for Santander UK in their Strategy and Corporate Development
Remi Allen-Bond: team. So, what that means, we have essentially three main
Remi Allen-Bond: roles. The first one is determining the bank's long- term
Remi Allen-Bond: strategy. A second part is corporate development, which is your
Remi Allen-Bond: typical mergers and acquisitions.
Maiki Lynch: Lovely.
Remi Allen-Bond: And then the third part is strategic projects. That's like
Remi Allen-Bond: your internal consultants.
Maiki Lynch: How did you get there? I know that so many
Maiki Lynch: people perhaps who are listening, they may be thinking, " Gosh,
Maiki Lynch: I'd love to have that job." How did you get there?
Remi Allen-Bond: So, most of my team have backgrounds in either investment
Remi Allen-Bond: banking or in consultancy. The way I got there was a
Remi Allen-Bond: bit different. So, I did a graduate program at Santander
Remi Allen-Bond: after finishing uni. So, I went through a few rotations
Remi Allen-Bond: on the grad scheme. And in my third year my
Remi Allen-Bond: rotation was in that team. And I guess I impressed
Remi Allen-Bond: them while there, because they decided to keep me when
Remi Allen-Bond: their scheme finally ended and I'm still there now.
Maiki Lynch: Congratulations. So, you got to try out different areas of
Maiki Lynch: the business when you're saying rotations-
Remi Allen-Bond: Exactly.
Maiki Lynch: You got to try out different areas. And this particular
Maiki Lynch: area that you were working in, it was a good fit?
Remi Allen-Bond: It was a good fit. Precisely. Yeah.
Maiki Lynch: And how do people react when you say you work
Maiki Lynch: in finance, that you are a chartered accountant?
Remi Allen-Bond: Like Angelika said, they asked me to do taxes for
Remi Allen-Bond: them, is the most common response! But, no. They're generally impressed because
Remi Allen-Bond: it is a recognized profession worldwide.
Maiki Lynch: And is that what attracted you to the profession?
Remi Allen-Bond: So, what attracted me then was one, yeah. Of course,
Remi Allen-Bond: it's recognized. There's a certain, I suppose, respect in having
Remi Allen-Bond: done it and recognition in having done it. I think
Remi Allen-Bond: also just being wholly pragmatic. If we look at salaries
Remi Allen-Bond: and salary growth over the past few years, especially, finance
Remi Allen-Bond: has been one of the few sectors in the UK
Remi Allen-Bond: that has seen consistent strong salary growth. So, in terms
Remi Allen-Bond: of a long- term career, it's a very good one to be in.
Maiki Lynch: I completely understand where you're coming from there. Angelika, I
Maiki Lynch: wonder if I can come to you. What were your
Maiki Lynch: reasons for going into finance?
Angelika Cyrulinska: I guess I was a bit similar with the money aspect.
Angelika Cyrulinska: That seemed quite attractive to me. But, also I quite
Angelika Cyrulinska: liked problem solving and it all came about because I
Angelika Cyrulinska: worked in retail during my gap year and I did
Angelika Cyrulinska: some back- of- house admin stuff and looking into unusual
Angelika Cyrulinska: transactions, etc. And that's what made me think that I
Angelika Cyrulinska: would be good at audit, which was my first job
Angelika Cyrulinska: doing accountancy, I guess. So, I guess a bit of
Angelika Cyrulinska: both. I thought money and then I thought I would
Angelika Cyrulinska: enjoy it as well.
Maiki Lynch: What is audit? I sometimes think of it as a little
Maiki Lynch: bit like detective work. But, how would you define audit
Maiki Lynch: or what do you think audit is?
Angelika Cyrulinska: I guess it is a bit of that. It's basically
Angelika Cyrulinska: just going to a business and making sure their financial
Angelika Cyrulinska: records are reflecting what they should be reflecting and the
Angelika Cyrulinska: figures are correct and accurate. And I guess a lot
Angelika Cyrulinska: of it is kind of questioning some of the judgments
Angelika Cyrulinska: the finance department in the certain business have made. It
Angelika Cyrulinska: was a little bit daunting at first going into a
Angelika Cyrulinska: business as an audit junior and questioning people that have
Angelika Cyrulinska: been an accountant for 20- plus years, being like finance
Angelika Cyrulinska: directors and questioning them on I guess their judgments and
Angelika Cyrulinska: what the figures are representing, et cetera.
Maiki Lynch: So, you came out of retail and you moved into
Maiki Lynch: audit? Can you tell us a little bit about what
Maiki Lynch: you did at that particular point as your entry role
Maiki Lynch: into accountancy? And perhaps any study that went along with that?
Angelika Cyrulinska: Yeah. Sure. So I started on a school- leavers program,
Angelika Cyrulinska: the same as an apprenticeship, I guess, for a practice.
Angelika Cyrulinska: They did audit and accounts, but I was mostly in
Angelika Cyrulinska: the audit department. I left the practice, because I wanted
Angelika Cyrulinska: to focus more on some accounts and tax work, which
Angelika Cyrulinska: I wasn't exposed to very much at the time. So,
Angelika Cyrulinska: then I moved into a smaller practice to do just
Angelika Cyrulinska: that. And then, when the time came up, I built up my confidence
Angelika Cyrulinska: dealing with clients, et cetera. The job at Mercedes came
Angelika Cyrulinska: up as a financial accountant, which is what I originally
Angelika Cyrulinska: started with. And then, obviously, now I'm here in my
Angelika Cyrulinska: current role. But, I then started my ACCA and then
Angelika Cyrulinska: it took me around three years to do ACCA. So,
Angelika Cyrulinska: all in all, it took me about five years to
Angelika Cyrulinska: go from nothing to being qualified.
Maiki Lynch: So you're qualified-
Angelika Cyrulinska: Yes. I'm qualified now-
Maiki Lynch: qualified?
Angelika Cyrulinska: Recently. Not too long ago, actually. I got my results
Angelika Cyrulinska: in October.
Maiki Lynch: Oh, congratulations.
Angelika Cyrulinska: Thank you.
Maiki Lynch: Congratulations.
Angelika Cyrulinska: Thank you.
Maiki Lynch: How did you feel when you passed, when you'd realized that
Maiki Lynch: after five years of study it's all done? It's all done and you're chartered?
Angelika Cyrulinska: Yeah. So I wasn't as cool about it. I wasn't very
Angelika Cyrulinska: confident. So, I cried to be honest. I cried with
Angelika Cyrulinska: happiness. I was really, really happy, because I wasn't expecting
Angelika Cyrulinska: to pass my last exam. I have passed all the
Angelika Cyrulinska: other ones first time, luckily. But, the last exam I
Angelika Cyrulinska: felt was so tough. I really wasn't expecting to pass.
Angelika Cyrulinska: And when the results came through and I actually did
Angelika Cyrulinska: quite well, I just felt just all the relief. And
Angelika Cyrulinska: just five years of work just paid off in that
Angelika Cyrulinska: moment. I just felt really, really good.
Maiki Lynch: That's fantastic. And I can see you just glowing, just
Maiki Lynch: reliving that moment right there. And now that you are
Maiki Lynch: qualified, do you feel it's turned out how you expected?
Angelika Cyrulinska: I guess yes and no. I don't know. I built
Angelika Cyrulinska: it up in my head so much that I didn't
Angelika Cyrulinska: really know what to expect. I was just looking forward
Angelika Cyrulinska: to the end of my exams and just having all
Angelika Cyrulinska: that extra time, because I feel like after school I
Angelika Cyrulinska: had my gap year and then I went straight into
Angelika Cyrulinska: studying again. But then, in the other aspect is I
Angelika Cyrulinska: feel like I'm more confident in my role now. I
Angelika Cyrulinska: feel like I have got more knowledge than I did
Angelika Cyrulinska: before. Thinking back to the audit junior days, where I
Angelika Cyrulinska: was a little bit clueless, now to actually being able
Angelika Cyrulinska: to do and explain what I'm doing to others.
Maiki Lynch: And so, you've moved through so many different bits of
Maiki Lynch: the various roles that you can have within accounting, finance,
Maiki Lynch: even within such a short time. Do you feel that
Maiki Lynch: there's room for creativity? I don't want to say " creative accountancy." That's not
Maiki Lynch: what I'm saying. But, do you feel that there's room
Maiki Lynch: for creativity in your role as a finance business partner, in
Maiki Lynch: what you are doing in Mercedes and working with all the various
Maiki Lynch: teams that they have?
Angelika Cyrulinska: Yeah. Definitely. I think we always have to think outside
Angelika Cyrulinska: the box of how we can be the most efficient
Angelika Cyrulinska: we can and cut costs. And when I collaborate with
Angelika Cyrulinska: my business partners and they have ideas of how they
Angelika Cyrulinska: want to carry out the business, I can then look
Angelika Cyrulinska: into the financials. And we can consider multiple options, compare
Angelika Cyrulinska: how much is it going to cost us? What benefits
Angelika Cyrulinska: are we going to get? And sometimes it takes a
Angelika Cyrulinska: lot of outside- the- box thinking.
Maiki Lynch: I think that leverages on some of the things that you
Maiki Lynch: mentioned that you enjoyed earlier on in your career and that
Maiki Lynch: you realized that you had those skills for problem- solving
Maiki Lynch: essentially, and coming up with those ideas and sharing them
Maiki Lynch: within the business. Remi, I want to come back to
Maiki Lynch: you. Would you say the job has turned out how
Maiki Lynch: you expected?
Remi Allen-Bond: I would say so, yes. I didn't really go in with
Remi Allen-Bond: a vision of how it would be in the end. The
Remi Allen-Bond: kind of role I'm doing now is what I wanted
Remi Allen-Bond: to do when I first joined them, but didn't know it actually
Remi Allen-Bond: had a name. I didn't know that my actual current
Remi Allen-Bond: role was actually a role that existed. So, it turned
Remi Allen-Bond: out as I hoped it would, but not really as
Remi Allen-Bond: I'd expected it would.
Maiki Lynch: That's interesting. Would you say that there's space for creativity
Maiki Lynch: in what you are doing?
Remi Allen-Bond: 100%. My role is so massively varied in what we
Remi Allen-Bond: do. No two projects are going to be the same.
Remi Allen-Bond: Every year the strategy evolves. The thing I like about it
Remi Allen-Bond: most is the variety involved in it and the need
Remi Allen-Bond: to adapt. I didn't want to have a role where
Remi Allen-Bond: it was monotonous, or where there was too much routine
Remi Allen-Bond: involved. I wanted a role that challenged me to come to work
Remi Allen-Bond: each day and not quite know what's going to happen,
Remi Allen-Bond: which is what I get now. Don't get me wrong,
Remi Allen-Bond: that there are roles and people do enjoy roles where, say,
Remi Allen-Bond: it could be monthly cycles or that stuff and that
Remi Allen-Bond: is fine. I've done those as well and they were
Remi Allen-Bond: fun and in different way, because you were able to
Remi Allen-Bond: perfect a task. But, I personally like the challenge of
Remi Allen-Bond: the ad hoc nature of my current role.
Maiki Lynch: I really like the way you explained that, the point
Maiki Lynch: in your career when you're acquiring those skills, you are
Maiki Lynch: perfecting that particular task. You are acquiring that skill and
Maiki Lynch: I guess you're at a point now where you've moved
Maiki Lynch: on and you're able to deal with change, basically. Change
Maiki Lynch: that's happening and change that's happening faster than perhaps it's
Maiki Lynch: ever happened before. So, Angelika, can you tell us a
Maiki Lynch: little bit more about the lifestyle that this career path
Maiki Lynch: has given you?
Angelika Cyrulinska: I feel like there's definitely some perks from, especially my
Angelika Cyrulinska: current job at the moment. For example, now in my
Angelika Cyrulinska: current role, I get to drive one of the Mercedes cars,
Angelika Cyrulinska: so that's part of a, I guess, staff reward scheme
Angelika Cyrulinska: where I basically get given a car to drive and experience. So,
Angelika Cyrulinska: it's significantly cheaper. I'd definitely not be able to afford
Angelika Cyrulinska: to get the same car I drive now if I
Angelika Cyrulinska: was to buy it, for example. So, yeah. That definitely helps,
Angelika Cyrulinska: especially that I really like the cars!
Maiki Lynch: I suspected you may do, if you work for Mercedes. It
Maiki Lynch: would be a perk if you were enthusiastic about the
Maiki Lynch: car industry.
Angelika Cyrulinska: Yeah.
Maiki Lynch: Remi, also coming to you. Can you talk to us a
Maiki Lynch: little bit about the lifestyle that choosing accounting and finance
Maiki Lynch: has giving you?
Remi Allen-Bond: Well, no free cars, unfortunately.
Maiki Lynch: Sad times.
Remi Allen-Bond: I know. So, I think that a lot of finance firms, banks
Remi Allen-Bond: specifically, do reward their people quite well and do treat
Remi Allen-Bond: them quite well. Speaking solely from Santander, it's all
Remi Allen-Bond: very nice. The salary we've touched on already, is good
Remi Allen-Bond: for the industry. There are other perks, pension providing, tons of annual
Remi Allen-Bond: leave. Then there's other things like annual bonuses, which is
Remi Allen-Bond: additional funding, company car schemes. So, there's a lot of
Remi Allen-Bond: things there, which all adds to the bottom line individually.
Maiki Lynch: I want to ask you, are careers in accountancy and
Maiki Lynch: finance boring and uncreative therefore? And how do you feel?
Remi Allen-Bond: I feel like that is a wholly undeserved stereotype. And I
Remi Allen-Bond: say that, because if you look at even just Angelika
Remi Allen-Bond: and me, our roles are both in accountancy and finance, but wholly different roles. And both require creativity
Remi Allen-Bond: to do them.
Maiki Lynch: Angelika, can I come to you just to hear your thoughts
Maiki Lynch: on that question?
Angelika Cyrulinska: I completely agree. I think there's so much variety in
Angelika Cyrulinska: what accountancy and finance is and you can pretty much
Angelika Cyrulinska: make of it what you want. You can definitely personalize
Angelika Cyrulinska: it to yourself and what you're interested in.
Maiki Lynch: I agree. And I think you both work in some
Maiki Lynch: very exciting industries. And I like that you've also recognized that
Maiki Lynch: there's the opportunity to move about, to move from one
Maiki Lynch: industry to another, from banking to cars. And so, I
Maiki Lynch: guess my last, question for you, Angelika, what advice would
Maiki Lynch: you give someone perhaps who's listening now, who's considering a
Maiki Lynch: career in accounting and finance. What advice would you give them?
Angelika Cyrulinska: I would probably say to do a bit of research
Angelika Cyrulinska: into what does interest you the most. And if you
Angelika Cyrulinska: don't have a complete plan of where you want to
Angelika Cyrulinska: end up in a few years time, that's fine. But,
Angelika Cyrulinska: I think looking into the type of accounting and finance
Angelika Cyrulinska: that you want to do helps. And I think then
Angelika Cyrulinska: if you know any accountants, then also talk to them
Angelika Cyrulinska: and what they've experienced in their life. But also, there's
Angelika Cyrulinska: so much stuff online that you can find nowadays, of people
Angelika Cyrulinska: sharing their experiences. And also career fairs and stuff like
Angelika Cyrulinska: that. I know ACCA did one not that long ago as well.
Angelika Cyrulinska: So just attending them and finding out, I guess, more
Angelika Cyrulinska: about the profession, because I think it does take a
Angelika Cyrulinska: lot of commitment to get to a qualified position, I
Angelika Cyrulinska: guess. So, that's what I would say. But just probably
Angelika Cyrulinska: do a bit of research into what you'd be interested in.
Maiki Lynch: Thank you. I think that's really sound advice. Remi, coming to you
Maiki Lynch: just with the same question.
Remi Allen-Bond: Yeah. So again, I'd echo first of all, do a
Remi Allen-Bond: bit of research. Speak to someone who's in the industry
Remi Allen-Bond: and see do they like it? I think that if
Remi Allen-Bond: you can join a rotational scheme, like a grad scheme,
Remi Allen-Bond: that's a great option, because it gives you ... It's built
Remi Allen-Bond: in that you'll have opportunities to look at different areas
Remi Allen-Bond: within accountancy and finance as part of that program. So,
Remi Allen-Bond: you'll have the chance to see... to try this and try
Remi Allen-Bond: that and say, "Oh, I like this, not that." And that can help you decide where you want
Remi Allen-Bond: to end up in the long term. The second thing that I'd
Remi Allen-Bond: say, or I suppose third thing now, is if you can join,
Remi Allen-Bond: then even join doing something that's quite straightforward or more
Remi Allen-Bond: entry level, like say just financial reporting, financial accounting, because
Remi Allen-Bond: that will give you a good basis of what the
Remi Allen-Bond: industry actually is. It'll introduce you to other business areas
Remi Allen-Bond: within either your organization or elsewhere, and how they work and will
Remi Allen-Bond: allow you then to, if you want to move elsewhere,
Remi Allen-Bond: to grow your skillset and then move elsewhere. I think
Remi Allen-Bond: the thing that's helped me most in my current role
Remi Allen-Bond: is having done financial reporting for a year. I use
Remi Allen-Bond: that knowledge today. Even though it's an entirely different job,
Remi Allen-Bond: the skills that you learn in it are useful anywhere.
Maiki Lynch: That's it from this episode of By All Accounts. Thank
Maiki Lynch: you Remi and Angelika for chatting with me today. For
Maiki Lynch: a link to watch the video version of this podcast,
Maiki Lynch: check out the show notes. With skills and accountancy and
Maiki Lynch: finance you can work in any business anywhere and turn
Maiki Lynch: your passion into an exciting and rewarding career with an
Maiki Lynch: ACCA qualification. You can sign up to find out more
Maiki Lynch: by heading to accaglobal. com/ buanywhere. That link is also
Maiki Lynch: in the show notes. See you next week. I'm Maiki
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