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My career journey started when I was 17 and looking at University courses. I had no clue what I wanted to do, I had briefly considered economics since it was my favourite subject at school, but I was struggling with my maths grades, so I wanted to see what other options for university courses there were. At a University Open day, I went to an Accountancy and Finance talk and decided that’s what I wanted to do (and yes, it’s a common misconception that you have to be a maths genius to be an accountant but really if you have a good handle on basic concepts that’s all you need!).
I enrolled on a University course that was sponsored by a Big 4 firm where I did placements in audit alongside my studies at University. This course gave me a fast track to qualification and one year after I finished University, I was a qualified accountant. Whilst audit gave me a strong foundation and set of skills I regularly use in my role day to day I knew it wasn’t the career for me. I realised that I didn’t want a job where I did the same tasks every month or anything where my role would be repetitive. I wanted something where I would always be having to learn new things and adapt to new challenges. This ruled out a lot of industry and monthly reporting roles, so I googled “non repetitive accounting jobs” and forensic accounting popped up.
After researching what forensic accounting actually involved and the sort of work you could be doing, I was hooked and knew it was what I wanted to do. I got in contact with recruiters on LinkedIn and told them I was interested in forensic accounting jobs and to let me know if they knew of any that were hiring. That’s when I got the message about the role at Henderson Loggie, and the rest is history.
Luckily, I was able to get a job in forensic accounting without any previous experience in the field and my skills gained from my time in audit, knowledge from my accountancy exams are being put into practice daily as well as an eagerness to learn and adapt to a new role.
I am looking forward to continuing to develop my skills as a forensic accountant that I gain from working on a variety of different cases, and I am grateful that I work in a role that has variety every single day. Whilst I may not know what I’ll be working on in a couple of months, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
