[conductr]

It’s definitely a problem worth focus. I recommend networking with some of the finance folks. It’s as simple as a lunch meeting, ask them about some of the projects that are in planning phase, offer your assistance. You’ll have to figure out what is the post-COVID equivalent.

I find some in finance and IT get along fairly well and can build a bigger rapport fairly easy. We’re all excel nerds and many of us have taught ourselves how to program to an extent (VBA, etc).

Depending on the organization, we tend to be more focused on leadership support. A junior analyst will get much more face time with VP and up than down. So that’s part of the problem is those connections just don’t always exist. When they do, it might be with an IT director which has maybe become too far removed from codebase or implementation challenges. It happens with every department within the organization, not just IT. My experience is outside the software industry so may work a little different if sole function of the company is software.