Hi everyone, hope your week's been great. I am a second year internal audit consultant at EY.

I am looking to exit to a tech company (preferrably FAANG) within the next three years. What are things I could do to increase my chances besides looking for a referral? I am a CPA, but am considering a CFA/CISA - wondering if you guys have any insight if tech companies value these certs? Additionally, do these companies sponsor green cards for accounting positions? Thank you in advance!

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Go over as an accountant and with experience in tax/audit and start there.

Once you get 16 months in, apply for positions that build to where you want to be based on experience people have in the kind of roles you are targeting

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I came into Amazon as a product manager and after two years became product tech, as organizationaly it made sense but I was already doing the job (necessity).

I find there are always opportunities if you are willing to fill gaps and pick up slack, especially in resource constrained environments.

I started in tech consulting and did 2 years there, industry for 4 years where I did tech, ops and M&A, then did 2 years focused on operations/IT, and given staffing and previous experience I got staffed on a project in M&A.

The M&A / strategy arm wanted to keep me on and so I moved over once I hit senior manager. I did 3 years doing large scale programs before going into a product role at Amazon.

I found it harder to navigate in consulting given the useless obsession with MBA’s, many of whom struggled to read a 10k.

You want to do accounting at faang?

Of course - appreciate you asking. My reasoning is nothing special though, just classic burnout from public and looking for better WLB and pay. I really don't care what job it is as long as it's something I can do well at, pays decent, and let me have a life after 5/6.

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