* Constant gaslighting and making you question yourself and decisions
* very high turnover rate in Shipping FP&A (there have been 4 analysts in 2 years for my current role)
* management is too focused on meeting all the requests by the leadership team, so that puts even more pressure to deliver. You end up taking out fires instead of having the time to actually build something.
* most often, you get requested to deliver something quickly by end of day.
* implied here is that there is no project management in place within FP&A
* probably due to cutting costs, you're expected to manage two business lines instead of one (say goodbye to work-life balance)
* there are no procedures or guides as to how to actually do your work, so there is no standardization, making reproducibility of work difficult from prior analysts.
* quality of work also depends on the business line leader you work with. In my case, there was no integration to the team and was just expected as soon as possible. Although I explained that these things take time, they just kept adding additional deliverables while my manager instead of helping, mentioned that it was just part of the job
* lastly, nothing is really automated so you have to manually download datasets and manually do your pivots to extract data.