Vantaggi
After my second week people complemented me on surviving with the CFO. Gained experience solving my own problems due to lack of training and cross departmental assistance.
Svantaggi
Supervisor had no leadership skills. Ran prior 2 analysts off within their first 2 weeks. Silos within departments where information is with held in pathetic attempt to protect job. Nobody documents any of their processes which creates one man shows. The developer of their salescube left no designs so any questions about it go out to him for a consulting fee! Makes it hard in a finance role when no one can answer how they calculate sales, etc inside their own system. Upper management has unrealistic expectations of the level of effort to get up to speed on their system and is hostile towards suggestions and developments to improve processes once you are. Decentralized structure means for the several months I was there that I rarely spoke or worked with anyone other than supervisor.