I see these guys everywhere. What are they doing day to day? How much money are they making? Is it just a stepping stone to CFO?
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Day-to-day is making voodoo dolls of PE associates then responding to questions like "Hey I know the business is hundreds of millions of EBITDA but can you bridge the MoM increase in other SG&A? Looks like it's up $5,253.12 vs. last month. What's driving this? How much if anything should be Non-recurring? Can you provide recon?" to which you source the answer by reaching out to one of your 7 CFO/Controllers responsible for holding together what is effectively 15 unintegrated businesses together with shoestring and bubblegum. For your troubles, you can take home ~$300k plus units with vesting provisions that may as well be written in sandskrit.
(I would guess)
lol, bravo
Sandskrit instead of Sanskrit is the funniest thing here bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not the first time you've gotten overly excited about an extra D. Boom roasted
Goddamn "Principal in CorpStrat" is cooking in here
This is both very funny and also way too true.
Haha, nice work
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