YOE: 5-6 Title: Senior Manager TC: $132k (LCoL/MCoL) Brief Background: Undergrad/Masters in Accounting, Big 4 Advisory (Data/Automation), spent my whole career doing SQL, Alteryx, VBA, Tableau, and Power BI consulting services for internal audit and risk teams of F500 companies. For the past 2~ years, I've done a lot less of the technical work (writing code, building the dashboards, etc) and much more of the people and project management. Did do one project involving building a dashboard for a CFO Report, but it was more of an automation value add than any complex financial analysis other than some basic descriptive metrics. Feel like I'm stuck because every job posting I find I'm stuck in the middle; not enough audit/risk experience to join an audit/risk department and not enough data science experience to join a data department. Would my skill set and experience lend itself well into transitioning into a finance role or would it require a significant step backwards? #corpfinance #finance #audit #risk
As someone who also has a Bachelor's/Masters in Accounting, I would caution jumping into Finance. There is SO much value in your skillset. I'd leave Big 4, and get into Accounting Analytics.
What are typical job titles to look for? Anytime I throw in analytics into job searches, I get hit with all the data heavy roles.
Absolutely! Any Finance team will scoop you up.
Finance underpays and they work you to death. Go into program or product management. Your technical background will be an asset for both.
Finance is a scam and really targeted for people that couldn’t break into IB/management consulting. the hours can get really rough but for some people, getting paid 80-120k is worth for simply doing stuff in Excel.
Lol ok…. I’m in finance and my TC is $260….speaking of, TC or GTFO
Go for Business Intelligence or Data Analyst roles at a tech company for much higher pay and less hours. Your experience is perfect for those roles.
If you want to move up, yes