Jul 30, 2017

FP&A analyst. Move to Merger Integration & Business Planning team or stay till promotion in FP&A?

Wondering what the thoughts are on "Merger Integration / Business Modelling" type teams? most seem to stay in these teams all career.

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Corp_titan

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Interested as well. It seems that the fastest CF promotions in my company are in the FP&A team, so I'm trying to decide if I should stay in FP&A to move up a little faster and then to diversify my experience once I'm a manager, or if I should get broad experience (in Corp dev and such) first before trying to get into management.

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A few questions to ask:

What is the ratio of Accounting/Ops/Project Management/Finance experience in the role?
How lean is this newly re-structured department? You may be getting more senior exposure and the chance to rapidly expand your responsibilities/advancement if your boss has to lean more on you than in FP&A.
I personally would find it more interesting to be working with senior management to figure out how to implement their strategic decision to acquire a company. I imagine there is more critical thinking when looking at building out the plan and looking the interplay between all the various parts of the 2 business compared to what you do in FP&A.
Ultimately it depends on what you enjoy doing. I would prefer the above versus FP&A, but some folks don't like the rolling up your sleeves and putting your model to work type of projects.

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help me understand...this team would be strictly post merger integration? How's your company structured? Do you have a dedicated Corp Development team who sources/runs the target pipeline, executes the deal, etc then it gets handed off to this team for integration?

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Wondering what the thoughts are on "Merger Integration / Business Modelling

I'd probably make a move to this team to try to get to deal flow.

Typically though, merger integration is not part of valuation of companies. I would try to get to the business modeling / strategic acquisition discussion if you don't get there initially.

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