How To UnFuck My Career?

All,

9 months ago I moved from SFA at a global organization ($1b in the US + Canada, renewable energy) to a finance manager role at an Ag company that was supposed to 4x by 2028 (~$70m scaling to >$300m).

Long story short: a few months ago, one of our facilities literally exploded and killed multiple people and ~40% of the company was laid off within a month.

I somehow survived the layoff, but the company is in total disarray. The facility that was destroyed was heavily leveraged, something I didn’t know when I joined, which resulted in our creditors getting basically all of the business continuity insurance. That has, predictably, led to liquidity issues for our sole remaining plant.

We’re basically debt financing everything and yet still significantly delinquent on paying our vendors, which have a statutory requirement of net 10 days. I’m a CPA so this makes me nervous for my license if any of them want to litigate.

My role was never as advertised and I am basically a glorified inventory analyst, now being tasked with AR data entry since apparently we’ve burned so many temp agencies that they won’t even work with us, and accounting is months behind on close.

I’ve never been in a situation like this. I had final round interviews in October with a good P/E firm as well as a Sr. Manager position at my old company, but I didn’t land either of them. Due to this job market, I feel like I’m in survival mode for the first time in my life.

I’m considering applying for senior analyst roles at 32, which feels super shitty and I can’t help but feel like I royally fucked my career.