Graduated from undergrad with BA in Accounting 3.7 GPA, I really want to get into FAANG or analytics.

Any suggestions?

I just interned at a mid tier firm and have a Big4 Audit Associate offer.

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Beef up your Alteryx, SQL, and PowerBI game.

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Try to get into their accounting group and do an internal transfer?

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What do you mean by analytics? it’s very broad

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Data Analytics for financials.

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Build up a portfolio with projects in R and python that have the whole cycle of data ETL, EDA, modeling, etc.

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Honestly just choose whatever the company uses. Switching between them is easy once you're good at one. I'd recommend R for statistics heavy roles, and recommend python for deep learning heavy roles. And for everything else, I'd recommend whichever gets you done quicker..

Learn to code
Rise to the top of your current firm (be known as the expert in xyz area)
Be able to do full stack data consulting (from biz idea to implementation)

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Big4 are constantly building ‘tech-enabled’ groups throughout all their lines of business including Audit. Get into this side of their business, become a tech + data pro within those lines of business and use that to continue push the boundaries on analytics - from there you’ll have plenty of next step opptys

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