I’m in internal audit. Want to move to finance (fp&a, VC, pe, etc)

Thoughts on how and what level I would start at? 2nd year senior with cpa and cfe.

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Making the jump to VC or PE front office is going to be very tough obviously - as a second year senior, you’d likely have to step back to an analysts (maybe senior analyst) level. If you could score associate somewhere, that’d be huge. Depending on your city and the role, a front office analyst position will likely be comparable all in pay, hopefully higher, than senior b4 (for ex $80-90k + 20% bonus)

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