and if so, from what kinds of roles? top business analysts, marketing, user/data analytics?
Which would be more useful for internal strategy:
1) Passing the Level II of the CFA® 2) Having strong data science skills
The business analysis and project management skills are already there. They just need to be proven first somewhere else in the organization.
data science, easily. not sure why an internal strategy team would give a crap about CFA, as impressive it may be.
i currently work in a corporate strategy team and we hire exclusively bankers or consultants... and most other teams I know of operate the same way. i don't know of any non-bankers/consultants that work in a strategy team, but i have to assume that there is someone out there somewhere that used to be a BA beforehand
I've seen non consulting or banking in CS. One was very well connected personally. The other had amazing expertise in that industry and reminded me of a consultant without him ever being one.
I would not think getting the CFA charter would help in an internal strategy role. But cartman could probably confirm or deny that.
CFA would be irrelevant unless that corporate strategy position had an encompassing role that regarded the company's capital structure.
My questions concern more placement than performance; I'm not especially worried about my abilities to perform on a strat team. The questions with the CFA relate to whether CFA can help place into a corp fin position from which I could later move into strat.
Cartman, you're saying analytics is the better skill set, but I'm about 5 years into my career and want to break into strat. IB/Consulting are probably out at this point without first going back to school. Can an analytics-intensive role get me on a track that, in some not-too-removed universe, get me where I want to go? Would it do so more effectively than a corp fin role?
Do larger firms ever hire strat folks from smaller firms?
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