Please help me make the right decision!
I am currently a 23M who is a Financial Analyst 2 at a Fortune 30 company in Seattle. $71k salary, $5k signing bonus, and 10% end of year cash bonus. Around $83k total comp (I started in May 2023). My job is Hybrid and I work anywhere from 20-40 hours a week. What should I do to help me advance my career? I currently have a bachelor degree in finance and am Wall Street Prep certified in Financial Modeling, Accounting, and Excel. I also have my SIE license just cause. I am looking at getting either an MBA, CFA, or CMA (could get a CMA while also doing my MBA since it is not as demanding as something like the CFA). I would do an online MBA at a Top 15 business school (University of Michigan or USC). My company will pay for some of it so I would like to keep working while I do it. My goal is to either climb the ranks in corporate finance as quickly as possible or transfer into IB as an entry level analyst or associate after graduation of my MBA because I have always been interested in that type of work and do not mind long hours of work. Ultimately my goal is to make more money. Please let me know what you guys think should be my next step(s)! Thank you!
I work in corporate and the fastest way to get a raise is to move jobs - obviously you should spend 2 years at each one though at least ideally
You think if I do a year at my current company and get a certificate like the CMA at the same time I could leverage that to become a senior financial analyst somewhere else?
I don't know exactly what you do but I'm not sure if you need a certificate if you want to go to a similar job just get another job somewhere else for a rank higher than yours
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