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Generally I would say it’s a good place to exit into mid tier corporate development. You don’t often see them in F500 companies, but I do see them often in midsized companies. FP&A is also a good place to exit to. Generally, your exits will be a paycut for you. Midsize companies don’t pay a whole lot for corp dev (excluding the PE backed ones that will be difficult for you). FP&A is also generally a paycut as well. It shouldn’t be drastic though. Maybe 10% less
Would stay in FDD. WLB in FDD is not at all that bad tbh. Nowhere close to IB and PE.
Decent pay and avg WLB.
I’m an IB associate fwiw. Used to do FDD and ODD.
OP- i think you meant to say you’re not cut for longer hours? — if so, you should not explore IB at all. IB is diff. Yes it comes with much higher pay. But your whole post is about wanting better WLB, no?
I exited big 4 FDD to corp dev at a <$5b company for a ~25% pay increase a few years ago (sr consultant level). WLB became massively better and zero regrets. Probably wouldn’t be the same with every corp dev exit, but there’s something to being the client versus the consultant to help WLB.
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In order to not have a pay cut you probably need to stay in the m&a world. If you stay in the m&a world the wlb is inherently not great (though there is a spectrum)
What would you say is higher on the spectrum (within finance and accounting)