re: Long term outlook for Corporate Finance / FP&A as a career choice

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don't want to finf myself in my mid-40s or early 50s without a job and dwindling career prospects.

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You can always hedge your bets by investing in the AI/ML that are about to take your job


I work in finance and the reassuring thing to me about job security is

1) Non finance people have a difficult time interpreting financial output correctly. If you don't understand the question, you aren't going to understand the answer

2) I have made it my business to know/understand the software/technical advances in my field. If 1 person can use software to automate the work of 5 employees, I want to be the 1

Example of #2

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The latest example is that every expense report in our company is now being run through an AI program that can detect outliers and can flag expense reports that need further analysis,

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Be that further analysis