I feel like some people responding to you have been nowhere close to a finance role.
First, those 8-5 hrs are only stated by your contract. Everybody on HN complains that "unlimited" PTO obviously does not mean "unlimited". Same as your "strictly " 8-5 working hours. There is a high level of peer pressure to get things done immediately.
Working in a mid office role, I frequently had front office at moment's notice ask to implement complex deals while trying to understand their vague descriptions of said deal. Now I have to spend an hour with them to parse out what they want. Good luck trying to have a mutual conversation with the front office in a high stress situation. I had to once implement a completely new computational feature to the code base in two days just to accommodate a single deal. And don't dare think that you can get into flow...
So not only can some of these deals have long compute times, but then you have front office analysts pinging you every hour to see "how are things shaping up" and if you have something ready.
Not only do you have your own tasks set by your direct manager, but you have several analysts on your ass that could drop a complaint at any second. In the end, you have multiple bosses. If they are unhappy with how fast you are delivering, you can bet your direct report will one day hear about it. There goes your performance review and year end bonus.
Now not only do I have multiple people at work on my ass, my family is pissed that Dad has to work late this evening because he was given something to work on that needs to be delivered asap.
Don't get me started on the snark by the back office. Not only can get shit on by front office, but the level of unhelpfulness by the back office made shit roll down from all sides.
First, those 8-5 hrs are only stated by your contract. Everybody on HN complains that "unlimited" PTO obviously does not mean "unlimited". Same as your "strictly " 8-5 working hours. There is a high level of peer pressure to get things done immediately.
Working in a mid office role, I frequently had front office at moment's notice ask to implement complex deals while trying to understand their vague descriptions of said deal. Now I have to spend an hour with them to parse out what they want. Good luck trying to have a mutual conversation with the front office in a high stress situation. I had to once implement a completely new computational feature to the code base in two days just to accommodate a single deal. And don't dare think that you can get into flow...
So not only can some of these deals have long compute times, but then you have front office analysts pinging you every hour to see "how are things shaping up" and if you have something ready.
Not only do you have your own tasks set by your direct manager, but you have several analysts on your ass that could drop a complaint at any second. In the end, you have multiple bosses. If they are unhappy with how fast you are delivering, you can bet your direct report will one day hear about it. There goes your performance review and year end bonus.
Now not only do I have multiple people at work on my ass, my family is pissed that Dad has to work late this evening because he was given something to work on that needs to be delivered asap.
Don't get me started on the snark by the back office. Not only can get shit on by front office, but the level of unhelpfulness by the back office made shit roll down from all sides.
You did the right thing for you and your family.