My experience involved extensive exposure to different aspects of accounting, budgeting/forecasting, reporting, taxation, and financeThe good thingsIt gave me opportunity to deal with peoples from different cultures, colleagues or division heads, and see most of Europe and Asia because of annual gathering of financial controllers. It offers part-time jobs even to retirees.
The challengesThe company should not be constrained with number of headcount, but rather should be concerned about the overall personnel costs.