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Financial Reporting
SEC Reporting
FP&A
Financial Fraud Examiner
External Audit
Internal Audit
Accounting Advisory
Risk Management
FDD
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Mgmt/strategy consulting at the top. FP&A that is more project based would follow. FDD sucks and is an accounting job, not finance, but it can lead to interesting pivots, so that's next.

Agree with the other person that fraud is a cool title but the work sucks. Would put near the bottom, right below accounting advisory (who wants to read the codification for a career...?).

Internal audit at the very bottom.

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Consulting is a bit broad but consulting work that allows you the greatest creativity (probably management/strategy consulting) would be my #1. In consulting there are a lot of boiler plate projects that just require off the shelf analysis but I find the projects where you have to use a great deal of creativity and problem solving skills are the most exciting.

FP&A would be 2nd (especially where there’s a strategic financial analysis component) and FDD 3rd. The rest of those are compliance functions, minimum creativity, most likely to be automated imo.

Fraud examination sounds cool but from what I gather there’s not a lot of true financial fraud work out there and you’re probably just doing document review work at the junior levels.

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Could I send you a DM about consulting work?

What’s the difference between financial and Sec reporting? Aren’t they the same? SEC reporting just specific to public companies and financial reporting being a broader term to cover reporting for both public and private?

SEC and financial reporting are the same at least at larger companies (I’ve only worked in banks) and I know because I’ve worked in it at public and private banks.

What you’re describing as financial reporting is financial accounting (product/financial control function at a bank) which would roll into a controllership function alongside financial reporting at larger establishments (like a bank).

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external audit since the pay is the best

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