As someone who passed the cpa exams, worked at a large bank, and now does data science elsewhere, I strongly disagree. Many large banks are stagnant with legacy

As someone who passed the cpa exams, worked at a large bank, and now does data science elsewhere, I strongly disagree. Many large banks are stagnant with legacy tech and processes. Many people do pointless excel work and will defend pointless excel work to the death. There were multiple people, of varying skill, willing and able to automate significant chunks of this with introductory R/Python/VBA skills. It’s not a cool shiny front end app, but a few scripts here and there could save an FTE easily. But politics prevents these things from being adopted. Cost and scarcity of tech talent is not a real issue for light officework. Servers, Source Control, etc. are missing the picture. You just need people with light programming capability and a little bit more agency and voila they’ll be 10x as productive as everyone else.