Do you work in accounts/finance

[Ladywinesalot]

If you do, what do you enjoy about your job?

I’m thinking if retraining starting with the AAT, but not sure if I would enjoy it.

Any insight into the industry would be great help.

i really enjoy not having to talk to people and hunkering down at my desk to plough through some nice calming accountancy. seriously! i find spreadsheets very soothing. i take great satisfaction in a well executed reconciliation. i fucking love a peculiar error that requires investigation.

if you like to be in control of your output, making messy things tidy, and don't particularly want to interface too much.. get on with the AAT!

I love it but there are various different areas you can get into

I have always had all round roles, so doing a mixture rather than things like being a credit controller for example, it depends what you like.

Now I love the hustle and bustle of Month End and Prepayments.

There are some free websites accowtancy I think is one of them to get a few bits of information

@MerryDeath I feel a little reading your description!

I do like to create calm from chaos, is that good enough?
I’d like to have a little social at work but I’m also geeky and like silence too.

@2020hello thanks, I don’t really know what I’d like apart from a stable career.

I’ll check out the website...

Speaking as a group FD I do like it. V hard at present though of course.

Half work is desk based, half board meetings and glad handing.

20 years of a good career so far

i take great satisfaction in a well executed reconciliation.

I hear you!

OP, go for it. Once you have experience behind you, there are loads of areas that you can move into if you're happy to keep learning.

I love it, work in a construction co so there’s always something different to be done and good banter in the office

I wish I had some mathematical ability. I think being organised and hunting for a problem while using spreadsheets would be right up my alley!

I did AAT a few years ago and have just started my first full time job recently, I absolutely love it, I wasn't massively mathsy at school, I got a B in my gcse and I previously had a creative career, self employed for the last twenty years but I did several short term contracts while I was studying and decided working in industry is what I enjoy (rather than a form of accountants), my FD wants to train me up to do his job so he can retire. My advice is ho for it. I'm 47 btw

I’m loving all the positive stories!

Would anyone know what salary I could expect to start on after AAT completed?
And how long it would take to be on a good salary and what I would need to do?

@MissSmiley Congratulations on your first job and Your story is almost identical to mine...
I’d you don’t mind me asking, how much do you earn?

£24,000 which is nowhere near what I earned being a designer but I get paid holiday now! Yeah

I studied one day a week for two years and worked while I studied but you can do night classes

I only did level 3 and 4 as I already had a degree (unrelated)

@LifeBeginsNow people laugh at how bad I can be at maths. I don't know if everyone is the same but I'm good at my job and it's more about logic and order than maths.

i find spreadsheets very soothing. i take great satisfaction in a well executed reconciliation. i fucking love a peculiar error that requires investigation.
I bloody love a spreadsheet and reconciliation.

@MissSmiley That sounds like a good start to me!
I have a BSc in something unrelated too, but I have no experience with accounts so should I start at the beginning?

Depends how quickly you want to qualify
You could talk to the tutor, mine suggested I start at level 3

That's good to know suddan. Maybe this is a career I can look into too (I've just been made redundant).

*sudden

If you're good at problem solving and pattern recognition you've got the tools you need