Career changing - compliance?

[Smallcopklitics]

I’m big 4 trained & qualified with several years experience but have had a bad run of working in small companies with very divisive politics.

Very recently made redundant & thinking of changing career entirely. I’m thinking of moving into corp gov / compliance and happy to start from the bottom up & get the relevant qualifications.

Can anyone comment if this will be tough with my background or ok? Obviously tricky job market atm.

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I looked in to moving in to compliance (financial services) and was basically told that I’d have to start in KYC and would be massively overlooked for roles due to having little experience (I already work on the other side of financial services, in a sale role so I have to be compliant).

The compliance roles are few and far between, with dozens of applicants.

I know how you feel about wanting a change of career, it’s so difficult to get going or know where to even go!

Thank you!

im a chartered accountant by background specifically looking into working as a company secretary - and starting from the ground up.

Company Secretaries in Financial Services are usually lawyers in my experience.

Why is the choice between being an accountant in a small organisation or something you're not currently qualified for in a large organisation? Go and be an accountant in Financial Services. Or what about internal audit or SOX or regulatory reporting? All of these offer opportunities for accountants.

Thanks but I don’t enjoy accountancy and have always worked in specialist investment roles since I qualified. I’m very qualitative and come from a humanities background. I would like to leverage my technical experience and become a cosec. Have been thinking of changing to either this or law for many years now and I think cosec would be the preference. As I say, I’d be willing to put the work in.

If you're ACA qualified you can become a qualified company secretary quiet easily, info here: https://www.cgi.org.uk/qualifications-training/qualifications/qualifying-programme/#route

I would try get some experience in governance, there are lots' of roles. Try BWW recruitment, they specialise in corp governance and have lots of different types of roles.

Why dont you try HMRC. It doesnt pay as much as the big four but you might enjoy it