Quick question: I currently have two offers. Financial analyst at a Fortune 100 company, or an Operations Analyst position at a bulge bracket firm. Any thoughts or insight is greatly appreciated.
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depends what the financial analyst role entails in terms of what you will be doing day to day. That being said, you must be careful when entering ops at a BB. People go in with the mindset that they can easily move to a FO role within a year or two when in reality it is much harder than most college grads realize.
What are you trying to do in the future?? I would take the F100 if I were you.
Great thanks so much for the advice. I just graduated and would like to work a few years before going to get an MBA and eventually try to move into ER. I think the F100 option will better suit these goals
You'd be right. Take the F100 offer.
no problem. F100 is the right move for an MBA.
For me, this wouldn't be a question. You have to balance "name brand" with work experience but if you are doing real financial analyst work I would take that 10x over ops at a BB. Sure, if you took ops you might be able to move to a front office role within said BB but that is unlikely, if you don't get that move to fo then you would essentially have spent 2-3 years building no skill-set. With corp fin you build the skill-set, have a solid chance to lateral as an ER associate in your Corp Fin industry at a boutique, MM, or maybe BB (if that is what you want) after 2 years of work or stay in corp fin or move on to some other field that requires financial analysis. It also affords you better MBA ops and the industry focus ALWAYS helps with ER... I mean it is a no-brainer
Makes a lot of sense, thanks for your perspective
If your goal is MBA, I'd lean F100. Would 100% take the F100 if it's some type of development or rotational program
The title "Financial Analyst" is basically meaningless. It could mean anything from strategy to bookkeeping. I'd get a better idea of what the roles entail first.
All that being equal, I'd vote the F100 position for MBA prospects.
Well. What's your goal? Kinda hard to help. Do you want to work in IB? Do you want to work in Corp fin?
Thanks for your response- Ideally would like to work in ER...
Both are back office roles. If the F100 position is in a Financial Service firm it's a better setup especially if there is a rotational component to the role.
F100 for sure if its a rotational program. You will get some good operating experience where you will get to really learn how to the company works. I did an FLDP at a Fortune 10 then moved into an IB Analyst role at a regional boutique. More of an outlier case but getting to front office can be done. Plus the FLDP at Fortune 100 will look pretty solid for MBA apps.
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