…until you’re all gainfully employed. Except maybe the last week of the year. Nobody does a damn thing that week.
Check out the details for a financial analyst position at BBVA in New York, after the jump.
Company: BBVA
Title: Financial Analyst
Location: New York City
Responsibilities: Analyze daily/monthly fluctuations in P&L (by entity, business lines, and product), prepare explanations of significant changes, and investigate any open items; Prepare monthly management reporting package, including reporting of adjustments, suspense items and reconciling items; Identify any errors (system or manual) in the daily P&L and work closely with the Operations department and Front Office to ensure they are corrected in a timely manner; Assist in preparation of budget and expense allocation; Review monthly report of suspense items and obtain explanation and target dates for clearance of aged items;Prepare various analyses by products (Loans, Fees, Fixed Income, FX, IRS, etc.); Assist in preparing support for various audit requests; Other ad-hoc projects, as needed
Qualifications: Bachelors or Masters in Accounting or Finance, CPA preferred; Three to Five years of experience in the Financial industry (Banking preferred), with an emphasis in management reporting or accounting; Possess knowledge of U.S. GAAP and/or IFRS, standard accounting concepts practices and procedures and ability to understand and solve complex accounting issues; Fluency in Spanish preferred
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Can a few Enron-sized failures happen already? I can’t be the only one thinking this is the most likely candidate to make change in this bottom-of-the-barrel industry.
Accounting doesn’t need to be cool. It needs to be lucrative. People like money. Money is cool. Money lets you buy cool stuff and do cool things.
This ain’t rocket science.
The only issue is that it is in Big4 Partners’ best interest that salaries stay low.
So until that changes It’s hard to convince the next generation to take a raw deal when they have a choice in the matter.
At large law firms, it is in the partners’ best interest that salaries stay low. And yet their staff make a lot more money than staff at large accounting firms…
I disagree. Firms offer 5, 10 even 15k referral bonuses and people don’t act on it. They offer 10 or 20k more to stay vs. go – and people still leave. They offer the opportunity to make partner and make hundreds of thousands a year – younger people don’t care.
Perhaps, the key point should not be about how exciting accounting could be. There are a plethora of professional fields out there that I could not imagine being “exciting.” Take proctology or podiatry for instance. Yet, we never hear about a shortage of them. There are other factors that make the field worth looking at as a possible vocation.
Urologists make a LOT of money. Go figure!
Granted I only spent 30 seconds Googling this but…
“An entry-level Urologist with under 1 year experience makes about $403,681. With less than 2 years of experience, a mid-level Urologist makes around $407,560.” 😲
Yeah, but you have to get up close and personal with dudes’ dicks all day. As an accountant, we still deal with dicks all day, but at least they are fully dressed.
Aren’t 1st year urologists like 34 years old? Plus they have 8 years of student loans. That a lot of $$, but . . .