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26 Mar 2009, 20:04
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Hey folks - I'm curious about corporate finance and had a few questions. Though y'all might have some answers 
1) Does anyone have a good job description of what a "typical" corporate finance job is like?
2) Do you recruit for a position in corporate finance within a firm? Is it always a rotational program (e.g. Johnson/Johnson)?
3) What kind of background do background do people generally need to get into the field? Is a concentration in finance + solid recruiting enough? or is previous finance experience required?
4) I've heard in various chat sessions, etc that corporate finance is considered a "less desirable" career. Anyone hear that? Know what it means?
Thanks for your help!
isa.
1) Does anyone have a good job description of what a "typical" corporate finance job is like?
2) Do you recruit for a position in corporate finance within a firm? Is it always a rotational program (e.g. Johnson/Johnson)?
3) What kind of background do background do people generally need to get into the field? Is a concentration in finance + solid recruiting enough? or is previous finance experience required?
4) I've heard in various chat sessions, etc that corporate finance is considered a "less desirable" career. Anyone hear that? Know what it means?
Thanks for your help!
isa.
26 Mar 2009, 20:33
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isa,
Corporate finance could span many different roles across different divisions within a company. You could be in audit or in the controllers group, which is more accounting than finance or you could end up in the treasury department where you will do capital budgeting and more of the NPV/IRR stuff that you will learn in B-school. There are also other roles like commodity trading, forex management etc, and function definitions will vary across companies. Rotation programs can be within different divisions of the finance org, or in the same role within different business units of the company. So, in a nutshell, there isn't a typical corp.finance role.
Recruiting, again, can be to a specific position(more common) or to a rotational program(less common). A finance concentration and solid recruiting is usually good enough provided you take the corp finance role seriously and are not trying to find a poor substitute to IB. Recruiters are wary of this and will see through you easily. Finally, I dont know if it is a less desirable career, but there are good and bad corp finance jobs. Depends on whether the company treats finance as a purely supporting function or as an equal and integral partner in the decision making process.
Corporate finance could span many different roles across different divisions within a company. You could be in audit or in the controllers group, which is more accounting than finance or you could end up in the treasury department where you will do capital budgeting and more of the NPV/IRR stuff that you will learn in B-school. There are also other roles like commodity trading, forex management etc, and function definitions will vary across companies. Rotation programs can be within different divisions of the finance org, or in the same role within different business units of the company. So, in a nutshell, there isn't a typical corp.finance role.
Recruiting, again, can be to a specific position(more common) or to a rotational program(less common). A finance concentration and solid recruiting is usually good enough provided you take the corp finance role seriously and are not trying to find a poor substitute to IB. Recruiters are wary of this and will see through you easily. Finally, I dont know if it is a less desirable career, but there are good and bad corp finance jobs. Depends on whether the company treats finance as a purely supporting function or as an equal and integral partner in the decision making process.
27 Mar 2009, 05:09
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isa - I don't know much about corp finance, but in the discussions I've been a part of where it was described as less desireable, it was in the context of it being a backup to IB.
