Hate my new job..

dizzyrascal

I agree with another poster. You could be looking at ways to reduce the man hours on this work. If it is so labour intensive, and you can change that, then you can only impress them. Also, you could be effectively be designing your own role. Often it takes a new member of staff to point out that there are better ways to do a job.
Start looking at software used by other companies, see if there is some Open Source stuff or try out some "free trial" stuff then report back to them. Maybe they need a wake up call. It is 2012 after all.

DCFC79

Id suck it up OP, if you quit you could be waiting an unknown length of time for a new job which will get you down (maybe even more as you wouldn't be working).

Been there myself OP, hated my last job but stuck with it whilst applying for other jobs.

Evilm

wantsajob wrote: »

I'd have thought skills in using something like SAS would be far more advantageous in the financial sector. Excel is worthless in comparison.

Do you mean SAP? Whilst a significant portion of accounts departments might use it plenty of other systems are used. In 12 years over several temp and some perm roles I think I've used about 8-9 systems! (Especially if you count Sage Line 50 and Sage Line 100 as different considering you have to work completely differently on them!)

Also with SAP its completely modularly built so processes and visual elements can be utterly different from company to company and it doesn't even look or work the same!

EDIT: I've never actually touched SAS in my work history with small, medium, large and government organisations. (Which I see is an accounting system too!).

Spreadsheet knowledge is needed as whilst simple accounts might all be done on the system most companies use various reporting measures that Accounting Systems can only feed information into and have to be run/created 'manually' to some extent. Daily, monthly and adhoc reports are all part of the monitoring process of nearly every company that I've worked for.

A number of companies I have worked at have had Spreadsheet based reports so large and complex that if you don't turn off the calculate function before changing one value you will spend the next half hour waiting for the sheet to refresh due to that change! :rotfl: (you only make that mistake once or twice! )

Accounting Systems are nice for entering and aggregating the data but are just not customisable enough to stand completely and utterly alone. Spreadsheet skills are invaluable to anyone working accounts!

falko89

I'm in a similar position, started new job a month ago and can easily say its the worst I've ever had, the work is rubbish and the pay is the lowest I've ever earned and the hours the longest 41.5 hours per week!! :eek:The only thing its got going for it is the people are OK, everyone is in the !!!! together so we just get along with it. My plan is to just keep looking for a new job, number 1 priority is to get out, as someone on here told me think of this as a temporary situation, it will not be forever (I hope)

Kynthia

The first month in a new job is usually the worst so try to stick it out.

I agree with the excel skills being an advantage. I work in management accounts and we use a version of SAP but do most of our reporting in excel. My boss is frustrated that none of us have the advanced skills she needs.

OneLife_OneShot

At least you have a job!

cashbackproblems

Hey guys thanks for all the advice which i have taken on board and needed to provide some perspective! I think the key is that it does not have to be forever and i generally try to be happy with where I am today rather than believing an imaginary situation/job is going to make me happy as it wont.

Im not an accountant, when i said Finance i meant financial operations, so i work for an investment bank processing trades, ledger accounting entries, resolving trade payment issues. I have already tried suggesting a few improvements and am good with macros/vlookups etc so room for some improvement, but a lot of the processes need to be done for audit purposes and main improvements would be the company investing in IT.

The last week has got slightly more bearable but i am still applying for other roles so am not on the verge of just leaving, and selling this job as a temp role on my cv. The hours are not long for banking 9-5/10-6.

The people are nice but dull, everything is so regimented as we have hourly deadlines and its almost like factory line work but in an office if that makes sense.

libra10

Would there be opportunities of eventually progressing with the company?

Meanwhile, gain additional skills at night school.

Good luck

Southend1

cashbackproblems wrote: »

The people are nice but dull

LOL

It could be worse, they could be evil coworkers making your life a misery.

cashbackproblems

libra10 wrote: »

Would there be opportunities of eventually progressing with the company?

Meanwhile, gain additional skills at night school.

Good luck

Yes definitely, but you would have to stay within the same team for at least 2 yrs which is unthinkable