Just started job - not sure how to put on resume

So, I've never had trouble writing a resume entry until now. I just started my first "real" job a few weeks ago with a real estate management company. We manage and maintain strip malls throughout the country. I don't have an official job title, I think, so I'll call "financial analyst," though I sit in accounting. My background is in economics, and my primary work is doing bank reconciliations for the properties we own. Not a dream job by far, but definitely better than no job, and at least it's real world experience. The company is family-run, and business seems to be going well - they've been around for decades, and manage over 80 properties.

Anyway, I'm continuing my job search, because my dream gig is still IB (surprise!) However, I want to update my resume with this job, and am not really sure what to put. I want to spin the "saving company money" angle (reduced losses by X%) , but I'm not sure what exactly to say, because I have no idea what I'm saving on average. Moreover, I don't want it to sound too much like back office work - though I realize that's what it is. Any ideas on a good approach? I've never had trouble writing one of these before.

 
SymphonyBanker:
"I don't have an official job title, I think" "...though I sit in accounting." "...and my primary work is doing bank reconciliations for the properties we own."

not sure if "financial analyst" is your job title, but go for it.

 

Never fluff something up so much that you can't bank it up when in an interview. It's not fun for someone to call BS on your resume 5 mins into a 30 minute interview.

"If you want to succeed in this life, you need to understand that duty comes before rights and that responsibility precedes opportunity."
 

I had this same problem when I did an internship. I think it is always good to have a line or two even in generic terms about what the summer internship usually entails especially if your summer internship is in the area you want to work as you mention. Look at the job description and see if you can construct 2 lines or PM me and I could try and help

 

M y opinion is you must put it on the resume, if I discovered half way through the interview by asking "what are you currently up to?" that you work somewhere thats not on your resume I'd start asking some serious questions why. It may not look disloyal if you make sure its known that working at the new place is absolutely what you want to do and something you were committed to before taking your current job.

 

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