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

I work for EY, EY much further along with RPA than my previous big 4. Companies are presently adopting Automation at various levels. Right now companies trying to figure out how to make it economical. Until Big 4 has stockpiles of reusable code (across the major 3 automation platforms) covering lots of permutations across all system and interfaces there will continue to be a great deal of new code necessary and if your systems or processes are changing then it could require significant reconfiguration.

Agree with other poster, be the guy that can identify opportunities for automation and you are able to communicate that to your automation COE once it exists. Be agile and you’ll continue to be employed.