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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

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Depending on your group , you’ll spend time on tasks such as creating 5-year plans, conducting variance analysis, making sure transactions are properly recorded, reconciling the historical financial statements, and managing the company’s cash, cash flow, and borrowing needs. if you have a solid accounting background.

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Project Finance vs. Corporate Finance: Careers, Recruiting, Financial Modeling, and More

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This article will focus on careers and recruiting , while the accompanying YouTube video will discuss the technical/modeling aspects in more detail. And yes, coincidentally, we have a new Project Finance & Infrastructure Modeling course. Credit, lending, and corporate development roles at client companies are possible.

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Wall Street Mastermind Review: Should You Hire a Coach to Get Into Investment Banking?

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If you’ve read this site for a long time, you probably know that we focus on creating financial modeling courses and guides. But even with this, you need to start earlier because fewer banks will be open to hiring you, and the banks that are open to hiring you tend to finish recruiting earlier.

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Fixed Income Research: The Overlooked Younger Brother of Equity Research?

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But a few other reasons also explain why fixed income often gets overlooked: the unstructured recruiting process, fewer job openings, and the “cushiness” of senior-level roles. An Example Fixed Income Research Report Recruiting: Who Gets into Fixed Income Research? existing coverage” in ER.

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Private Credit Interview Questions and Answers: How to Merge Corporate Banking, Capital Markets, and LBO Modeling

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If you already know the industry and what to expect in the recruiting process, feel free to skip to the private credit interview questions and answers. all use on-cycle recruiting, but many smaller/mid-sized private credit groups are more flexible. And Why Has It Taken Off?

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Corporate Venture Capital: “Plan B” for Real Venture Capital or Compelling Career Combination?

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The venture capital market is highly cyclical , which discourages some bankers from considering it. Join in a bad market, and you might close 0 deals and learn very little except how to start a podcast or Substack on becoming a VC influencer. But there is one lower Beta alternative: Corporate venture capital (CVC).

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