I’ve been working in public accounting (audit) for just over 3 years as a finance major and I have no plans on navigating to get my CPA. I am now looking to transition to a new role after this busy season. What type of roles should I look to transition into and what kind of compensation should I be targeting?

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Probs FP&A if you studied finance. Target a senior FP&A analyst role and target 90k to 130k depending on the market you're in.

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What type of role would you prefer? I’m in risk advisory/internal audit and we rarely have busy seasons. For a senior role, comp is between roughly 100k - 120K

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Same. I would like to follow

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FP&A, Valuations, Management consulting, transaction advisory. All pay higher than audit. As a staff I’m not sure, but once you are a senior should be 110-135 for HCOL.

Advisory doesn’t really require a CPA, and comp is probably on the higher end as well. If your interested in learning more about it, DM me

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Pretty sure work is giving me a bedsore...

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UPDATE (RE: SoCal Assistant Controller Interview)

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They said due to month-end and quarter-end close they were busy and couldn’t get back to me as quickly for a “good update”.

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