dude your experience now is cutting cost.. that's your job, your bread and butter.. why you neglect that.. when you say your honest most likely your putting it in your cv in a negative way, try to make that as your selling point instead.. sometimes cutting cost is about cost avoidance, cost optimization. don't get them mix up. it's so important in today's world to ensure companies are sustainable.

Company dont really prefer to hire late 40s employees..

So just suck it up.. Dont think about it too much.. Just think it is just a job to get money at the end of the month

Also, dont downgrade yourself going to small or loss making company. Been there, not fun at all not getting bonuses and zero increment

Agree. accounting career is a dead end job

told my kids, don't study accounting or work with a bank

my only advice to you bro, is hang on to your job until retirement

ppl our age, unless you carry minimum HOD, or CFO minus one, very difficult to find job

Worked as a finance manager for 8 years in this co. Trouble is during the MCO, my boss placed me in a dead end job nothing to do with accounting and i did this job for the next 6 years. Destroyed my accounting career.

Whole day I do nothing but cut cost from other department. Hated this role. Told my boss many times that I wanted to out from this role, but my fault being too good at negotiating budget reductions that he retained me there.

I tried applying out of the company, but with this 8 years experience of doing this sampah job, no co wants to hire me. Making it worse, I am already in my late 40s.

I was too honest in my cv, didn't change it. Felt so demoralized, application after application kena rejected in jobstreet and almost zero response from linked-in.

I have another colleague in a similar predicament as me. He also was made to do dead end job nothing to do with accountancy, and he is a finance manager in my co. He got some job recruiters to "paint brush" his cv to make it look like he does closing work, budgeting, financial analysis, accounting software solutions, audited accounts compilation, internal controls, etc. But when he got his new job, he got caught by his new employers, as he struggled to proof that he could do those work, they investigated him and found that he lied in his CV, and buang kerja him.

So because of this, I am very careful not to lie in my CV and still use that dead end job description that I am currently doing to apply for work.

Still, I managed to get job interviews (not many), but I struggled when hiring manager asked me what I did in my current work. I tried to pitch my past job experience, but they were more interested in current experience. WHen they heard what i was doing is too operational, they just wasn't interested in my application.

And there was those that were interested to hire me: I did a background check on those co, and found that they were making losses, have cash flow issues, in net liability position. I didn't join them as I was concern about my long term prospects as those co show a big worry over how long they can last as a going concern,

And then there was one or two good companies, but they wanted me to work 7 days a week. I didnt' want to work like that.

Just saying, if you have kids or you are going to uni, please don't take accounting degree. I really envy those people in operation. They can so easily find jobs. My colleague even after he retired, because of his experience, his past colleague recommend him to new job. Accountants? Nobody bother to recommend us. We have to apply for jobs if current co no prospects. And then there is that dreaded finance closing. If you enter new company, new industry, you have to figure out how to do closing. Worse of all, if you have to handle finance staff everyday complain to you they want to resign because lack of prospects. When they leave, nobody else know how to do the work, understand the accounting system (so many system out there Oracle, SAP, etc). So you have to placaid the staff. Then every month closing have to stay back until midnight sometimes work in weekend. WHile you see your operation colleagues go back home at 530pm. Then finance environment also not so happy place to work, mostly women environment. I see operation people can go out to see clients, don't have to clock in to office. Everyday go into office have to clock in. Sigh...

So this is story of my life...late 40s stuck can't get out of this dreary company. My CV looks like crap because I have been doing dead end job for 8 years,, no company wants to hire me for my accounting expertise. Sigh...this is my rant.

dude your experience now is cutting cost.. that's your job, your bread and butter.. why you neglect that.. when you say your honest most likely your putting it in your cv in a negative way, try to make that as your selling point instead.. sometimes cutting cost is about cost avoidance, cost optimization. don't get them mix up. it's so important in today's world to ensure companies are sustainable.

How do we check if the company is a loss making company?

Sometimes Glassdoor, Indeed or Jobstreet review can't really trust 100%

So this is story of my life...late 40s stuck can't get out of this dreary company. My CV looks like crap because I have been doing dead end job for 8 years,, no company wants to hire me for my accounting expertise. Sigh...this is my rant.

Totally 100% your fault. Nothing to do with accounting or what you studied in your younger times.

No idea where you get the idea of what you study will dictate what you do for the rest of your life.
Just for your reference, I'm also an accounting graduate, 2nd class upper honors.

Do you know what I'm doing now?
Head of Marketing and also dabbling with cloud engineering as part of my side gigs (Some big MNCs are my clients and I still managing their stack). Totally unrelated to what I studied.

Point is upskilling is important and don't hold back - dabble and explore into what you like to do.

Sorry to say this, the problem is you

Nothing to do with your current job experience. Its all about how you sell your skills to the next company to hire you.

You even got offers to join a good company, but you reject cause have to work 7 days. You could take that job, work for 1-2 years then go to somewhere that is less intensive. Consider it a sacrifice to "freshen" your CV. But no, you damn picky.