Job not as advertised - advice?
Hi All,
I'm a new grad. I have over 3 years of experience in the accounting industry (primarily manufacturing) so far. I have my bachelor's in accounting.
I gor lucky and found an AP role in my first year of college that transitioned into a staff accountant role at a smaller company. I also worked at a smaller tax firm on the side.
The market has been rough, so I decided to take on a "financial analyst" position at a small-mid sized company. I was excited at the chance to do something new. I have been here ~7 months.
Instead, I:
-Can't see the financials or the budget. (How do I analyze anything without this?)
-Calculate inventory reserve & perpetual inventory
-Handle all product disposals (QA job.. no?)
-Host a weekly inventory disposal meeting
-Upload labor to work orders, monitor variances in capacity/material costs
-Do a weekly cycle count
-calculate a yearly tax credit
-calculate our expired inventory/soon to expire inventory per QA needs..
-not allowed to do any JE's/adjustments
-Calculate sales/order fill rate in a report sent out to the company
-roll up standard cost for new items
-create new items in our ERP
-Update all customer price lists
Turnover rate was phrased as "new and better company culture" to me in my interview.
Our turnover rate is TERRIBLE. we have a 1.5 on glassdoor. We've lost 6-10 people who were critical in aspects to my role in the past 3 months. My workload has doubled. My boss quit 2 months into me starting. was told only "40-45 hours a week" max. I haven't had that since I started. They're not hiring replacements.
I'm feeling very frustrated as it's not what I was expecting. I feel like a glorified inventory analyst rather than a part of the finance team.
Additionally, I was told that a "3 day close" will be the norm going forward. We have not done a 3 day close since I started - usually closer to 6 days. I have worked 13-14 hour days this week to try and meet that goal as I'm a salaried employee.
I don't feel like this is the path to growth for me. Any advice for the future? For future jobs?
Thank you if you read this far.