How did someone in Finance end up in HR?After years of planning to take my love of spreadsheets into the world of Finance, dreaming of all the balance sheets and forecasts, I found myself overlooking Sales Compensation for over 100 sales employees in a Finance team. Instead of chasing debtors, I was being chased by salespeople to check their commission. Instead of the month-end pressures, I was living the payroll cut-off life. Recharges became a thing of the past, and I was gradually turning away from my goal achieving a CIMA qualification and instead used my spare time to learn more technical skills in VBA and SQL. This experience put me at a crossroads with my career and I wanted my next role to be outside of Finance, but everything from University to that point had pigeon-holed me as a Finance analyst. Luckily, the giant organisation that RELX is, there were many internal opportunities to apply for and I was fortunate to have exposure to many areas in the business, so I was able to use my internal network to get more insight in available opportunities. That’s when I came across a job spec for a role in Reward supporting 1000s of employees in compensation globally. I had never heard of Reward before then and I had a lot of questions for my colleagues in HR, but I took the leap of faith and have never looked back. My love of spreadsheets continue and now are a source of HR dashboards and insightful analysis to support HR business partners with their strategic and operational decisions.