Do you think IB would help me become a CFO? I am a CPA with experience in audit, valuations and FDD. I am now head of finance at a small start up. Maybe an MBA would help? Should I just keep trucking?

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You could get a couple licenses and be a FINOP at a wealth management firm and use that to become CFO

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Personally not a fan of the compliance stuff. More on the strategy and operations side of things.

Compliance is something that is really easy to outsource. Not very value add IMO.

Head of finance =/= cfo?

Head of Finance is more of a manager / director level IMO. Kinda like a VP of Finance.

That being said, my current company has no CFO. I fulfill that function to the best of my abilities.

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People become CFO around director level from IB, can go IB to PE to cfo of portco as well

MBA probably better. IB leads to more corporate strategy type roles.

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