"Job hopping" promotes career development

In today's society, the rapid transmission of information provides opportunities for the flow of talents. Job-hopping has become a very common workplace phenomenon. The word "kangaroo" is a metaphor for job-hopping people in the workplace. We often hear and see that many graduates frequently change their working environments after leaving college, either for a good salary or because of their youthful vigour. However, after several years, they are still working as ordinary employees, just jumping between different companies. They have neither improved their positions nor improved their work, study, communication and other aspects of their abilities. If you improve in many places, you will often fall into a confusing career development "dilemma".

Ao Yanjie, a senior member of ACCA, is currently the financial director of Jinshajiang Venture Capital Co., Ltd. He has worked in Unilever China Headquarters, HSBC Bank China Headquarters, and managed SAP China Headquarters in internal auditing and group mergers. Positions include report manager, financial manager, consulting manager of financial division, etc. How to succeed in a crowded workplace? We would like to tell everyone through Ao Yanjie’s legendary “Kangaroo” experience: In the workplace, job-hopping with clear plans and in line with personal career development plans will make your career more brilliant.

Dreaming of taking off to “save the country”

As a 1996 undergraduate graduate of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics majoring in international finance, Ao Yanjie’s ideal at that time was to work in foreign banks such as HSBC and Citigroup . However, at that time, these foreign banks had very little business in mainland China and the job opportunities they provided were very limited. The dream of working in a foreign bank is difficult to realize immediately. But Yan Jie did not give up. Instead, he chose a circuitous route of "saving the country through curves" and joined Unilever, an established multinational company, to engage in management accounting and internal auditing. The reason why Ao Yanjie chose Unilever was “mainly because the personal development opportunities and employee training programs provided by Unilever are very encouraging, and you can learn business practices there.” The huge difference is obvious among undergraduate graduates majoring in international finance with no work experience working in accounting and internal auditing in non-financial industries. How to meet this all-round challenge?

Ao Yanjie is one of those "careful people" who can humbly ask others for advice. At work, he likes to watch and ask questions frequently, “This way he can not only become familiar with the relevant business, but also establish good interpersonal relationships with his colleagues.” In order to adapt to the internal audit work, he studied ACCA courses in his spare time. As an ACCA-approved employer, Unilever is very supportive of employees' ACCA exams. It not only provides ACCA exam funding and pre-exam tutoring, but also provides 10 days of pre-exam leave for each subject. To this end, Ao Yanjie made full use of his spare time. In his words, "At that time, I studied until midnight every day and took ACCA courses even on weekends." Hard work paid off. After two and a half years of self-study, he finally became an ACCA member with an average score of 70 points. This learning process laid a good foundation for Ao Yanjie to be able to perform skillfully in his future work.

As a "careful person" in study and work, Ao Yanjie does not work for the sake of work, but constantly digs deeper things in his daily work, "striving to become an expert in the field involved in his work ". For example, through internal audit experience, his understanding and familiarity with fixed assets, accounts receivable, inventory and other businesses even exceed that of financial personnel who have been specialized in related accounting and management work for many years.

Several job-hopping "careful plans"

While constantly accumulating in the process of work and study, Ao Yanjie also made detailed plans for his career development and made good plans. Be ready to face new challenges at any time. While working at Unilever, I had the opportunity to work at Bank of America. It was his dream to enter a foreign-funded bank when he graduated from college, and the benefits it provided were better than those of Unilever. However, considering that Bank of America’s business in China is small and its development goals are unclear, even if he entered, he would only be an ordinary employee. , lacking a good training mechanism and unable to see better career development prospects, Ao Yanjie chose to give up. In 1999, Ao Yanjie learned from the newspaper that HSBC had moved its China headquarters from Hong Kong to Shanghai in order to vigorously expand the Chinese market and was recruiting group reporting managers. Ao Yanjie believed that it was in line with his career planning goals, so he applied for the job. After several rounds of exams, he finally got the position. In this way, he not only realized his long-cherished desire to enter a foreign bank for many years, but also conformed to his career development plan and successfully achieved the jump from ordinary employee to middle-level manager.

From Unilever to a multinational bank with operations in many countries around the world, not only is there a change in industry, but the nature of the work has also undergone great changes. It requires mastering the knowledge of consolidated statements and accounting in different countries. In addition to the relevant policies and regulations, you also need to be familiar with the relevant businesses of HSBC Bank, as well as employee management and communication and coordination with supervisors and other departments. This challenge is not easy.

So how did Ao Yanjie become a successful challenger?

"In actual work, the practice of statement consolidation is not as difficult as the ACCA exam. The difficulty lies in the understanding of financial businesses, accounting policies, and regulatory regulations in different countries, such as the Bank of England, the People's Bank of China, and Hong Kong The relevant laws and regulations of the Financial Supervisory Authority, the U.S. SEC and other agencies. As a statement consolidation manager, you need to be familiar with these laws and regulations, and at the same time explain these laws and regulations to relevant business personnel based on your own understanding, and the business personnel will provide relevant financial information. Data. "Here we need to thank ACCA for its curriculum that is different from other certificate examinations, which enabled Ao Yanjie to gain a good understanding and analytical ability of accounting knowledge and accounting policies during his study at ACCA. At the same time, it is impossible to do a good job of consolidation without understanding the business. For example, loans need to be classified according to mortgage status, overdue status, credit rating, etc., and the risk weights of loans and derivatives must be calculated according to the requirements of the Basel Accord. For businesses he doesn’t understand, he humbly consults the relevant departments. For example, for loan business, he consults the loan department, and for import and export business, he talks to the trade finance department. Ao Yanjie guided his team's work while studying. It took him about half a year to fully get into the groove. In the continuous business practice, he also improved the work process, such as adjusting the original reporting model from branches to China headquarters, and then from China headquarters to HSBC headquarters, to the consolidated business of the entire China region. It is done directly and uniformly by the China headquarters, and manual work is replaced by system automation. This not only improves work efficiency, but also makes the financial statements provided more objective. It also frees branch financial personnel from the tedious consolidation work to engage in more management and control work. In 2001, Ao Yanjie was appointed as the financial manager of HSBC Shanghai Branch, leading a financial team of 11 people, responsible for financial statements, taxation, financial control, profit analysis and other work, and providing business practice for other HSBC branches in China. Diligent hard work has yielded fruitful results, and the department he leads has ranked first in the People's Bank of China's report evaluation of foreign banks for two consecutive years.

Ao Yanjie has high requirements for himself. He hopes to see himself making progress every year and does not allow himself to waste time. This is an important reason why he changes the working environment and nature of work in a timely manner. The seemingly unrelated job changes actually have his "premeditation" and "careful planning". In the first few years, it was the golden time for Unilever to develop in China, and there were a lot of training and development opportunities. But in 1999, Unilever merged its four original joint ventures in Shanghai. After the merger, the promotion space for financial personnel was greatly reduced, so he began to seek change. At this time, the China headquarters of HSBC Bank was moved from Hong Kong to Shanghai. It was the stage when foreign banks were preparing to take off in China. It could provide a relatively superior environment for employees' personal development. Therefore, he applied for this position. Become the HSBC Management Trainee that many people dream of. At that time, what HSBC valued was his auditing experience in multinational companies and ACCA membership. The reason why he left HSBC was that HSBC planned to centralize the national financial control work in Shanghai. At this time, after several years of accumulation, Ao Yanjie was already familiar with and mastered the relevant knowledge. He was already at the level of the Finance Department of HSBC China. Local employees will not see future development prospects if they continue to do so. Therefore, in 2003, he went to SAP Financial Division as a consulting manager and entered the more challenging IT and consulting fields to provide financial consulting and management software support for local financial institutions in China. At that time, SAP was vigorously developing China's financial business and urgently needed it. Advisor with financial background.