What’s the best way to become CFO in an investment fund (PE, Hedge fund..) ? Do people typically just leave audit to become controller and work their way up ? FP&A ? Finance? Thanks

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There are some smaller end hedge funds which I can think of where the CFO joined finance teams and worked their way right up, but obviously there’s a major difference between the finance functions of different hedge funds vs PE houses and there’s also hugely different roles and skills requirements for CFOs vs controllers, so I think it’s more common to come from an investment background

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Interesting thanks ! I always thought CFOs came from audit / accounting CPA background

Our CFO is from an accounting/CPA background. I’m at a smaller hedge fund now but I’d say about 50% of clients had similar background when I was at PwC

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