How does a finance rotation program in a f500 financial services firm set me up for the future?

I am about 6months in a rotational program at a diversified fs company that offers awide variety of rotations such as corp dev, corp strategy, investments, portfolio management, and traditional fp&a roles.

I am beginning to wonder what i can leverge this experience into as i am not sre i want to stay in the location of this job.

Any thoughts on where this can lead? Also, any thoughts on what i can do to leverage this into a more traditional wall street position?

 
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I typically have no problem helping people like you, but I am often amazed how people such as yourself wind up with positions in firms and have no idea what they have/can have.

If you are in F500 CorpFin, skills like FP&A are transferable to pretty much any firm with a finance department.

Skills like CorpDev are transferable to other CorpDev offices in other F500 firms. CorpDev can also bring you to ibanking in wall street (pending M&A exposure).

CorpStrat can help get you into consulting or in other CorpStrat divisions in F500.

Investments and portfolio management are self explanatory.

Sounds like you landed a pretty good rotational program. The subjects you listed above are solid.

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Looking back on the post, i realize it sounds a little naive but i promise i have a little more knowledge of the industry than it seems. Thanks for your reply, I guess the problem is i dont know exactly know what part of finance i want to end up in (prob why i took the rotation program in the first place).

What im really wondering is if this program is enough to move into one the positions you listed, ior if ill need to go to bschool/stay at the company longer after the program.

 

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