So I just accepted an offer from Citi. I am part of their Operations Rotation program. They claim that after you spend two years in the rotation program, you could move "anywhere in the firm." Sounded pretty vague. I started work in July and wanted to ask how I can pivot my career to something front office. I would want something like ECM, leveraged finance, Asset/Wealth management, or private banking.
A little background I went to a big10 school and I intervened at AmEx as a PM.
What can I do to pivot myself into front office roles? How can I make myself separate from the rest?
Operations to front office? Good luck bud!
Is it doable ?? looking for advice
Sorry to be blunt - it’s not doable.
The easiest way to find out if it's possible is to check on LinkedIn. You can do it with free LinkedIn but it might be a hassle - or you could sign up for your 1 month free LinkedIn premium, get access to Sales Navigator, and search for people in your company in your role/program and see where they have gone. I don't know the context of your program but if you're only seeing 1 out of 100 make the move, there's probably no shot unless you do something extraordinary. However, if you're seeing a couple people make the move into front office, try reaching out to them and ask for advice.
I am in treasury trade solutions doing analytics for the first rotation
I think it’s doable. First piece of advice which you seem to have down is be reasonable with your choice of role and know what you want. Wanting IB coverage and not even knowing what coverage group will be less fruitful than specifically targeting like a structured finance or syndicate / capital markets role. The latter is just less known by people looking to get into the front office.
My groups DCM team had one guy come from product control at another BB and one come from credit risk internally. We also had another credit risk guy make it to coverage at one point in time.
by comparison most of my friends from my own MO BB days made it to pwm/private banking or they studied their ass off to become quants and it worked.
lastly I’d say the MBA is always a great option. With ops from citi on your resume and the rest of the application in line getting into an NYU or a Darden and recruiting for banking is another fairly standard path
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