At a crossroads of sorts, how should I think through these 2 opportunities
I'm just finishing up a well-known rotational program for a Fortune 25 company ... one of those 2 year deals where you rotate through 4 rotations in different areas of corporate finance.
Well my last rotation was at the corporate level, working in Investor Relations, so I was able to get quite a bit of exposure to how things operate at the top, and to a countless number of senior executives/officers as well.
Now that I'm finishing the program, I essentially have to interview for my next role, of which there are hundreds of different internal options. I tried to network my way into our business development team, but they told me they just did not have any spots available.
With that said, there are 2 very good (albeit plan B) opportunities that I've settled on, and am now trying to decide which role would set me up best long-term. Option 1 is a role on our corporate FP&A team and while there will be some typical closing/planning responsibilities, it will mainly focus on analytics for a specific segment of the cash flow statement. Our future cash flow (and specifically the area I'd be looking at) is a significant focus area for the company, both internally and for our investors. I would continue to get great exposure for being so early in my career (e.g. pitching results to the VP of FP&A and CFO of the company), but I'm worried a lot of what I'd be doing would be consolidation of our sub-businesses results, with little to no opportunity to make an operational impact. While definitely not the most important thing, there are perks of being located at our HQ (being located in a great city, the occasional opportunity to go to sporting events in our company boxes).
Option 2 would be in a role in our Treasury department, which is located in a different city, closer to NYC. The role would be on our asset & liability management & funding team. It would involve evaluating interest rate risks, working with our operational teams to hedge FX risks, and some "front office" work with commercial paper issuance. The exposure in this role is still very good and will be more external (access to the deputy treasurer and chief risk officer of the company, as well as the banks we work with), but obviously it won't be as good as option 1.
Based off of all that, what advice would you have? Which role opens the most doors, especially in the context that I would like to work on our BD team long term. I don't think I can really go wrong either way as I'm sure I'll learn a lot in each role, I just want to make sure I'm making the best long-term decision.
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