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Corporate Finance Jobs

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Careers in Finance

By Trudy Ring and Mina Noll, VGM Career Horizons, Lincolnwood, IL., 1999. This book has an extensive section which talks about what work in corporate finance is like. Recommended and a good value.

Business and Finance Career Directory

An invaluable resource listing hundreds of employers and resources in finance. Also has articles about various career areas.

Careers and the MBA

Crimson and Brown. Magazine lists hundreds of companies currently recruiting MBAs. Good profiles and articles to be found here. Also check out their Careers and the Woman MBA, Careers and the International MBA, and their Careers and the Minority MBA.

Careers in Finance

Published by the Financial Management Association / Jack Rader, University of South Florida, College of Business Administration, Tampa, FL 33620, (813) 974-2084. This 100 page book does a great job of describing duties and task areas in corporate finance.

CareerShop.

CareerShop.com is the career Internet site for the computer generation. Employers post jobs on CareerShop.com's extensive network of job boards and newsgroups with access to over 150,000 resumes. Individuals use CareerShop.com to learn of job opportunities, training and career enhancement management.

Careers.wsj.com.

A very good resource for general info on business careers with a focus on corporate jobs.

Compact Disclosure

CD ROM allows you to locate addresses and names of the CFOs of all publicly-traded U.S. companies (more than 10,000 employers).

Finance '99

Harvard Business School Career Guide. Lists job descriptions at major companies, internship programs and contact names in human resources. Mainly Fortune 500 type firms. A super resource!

Financial Executives Institute Careers Postings

Listings of jobs and career info in corporate finance. They also offer a career management newsletter.

Financial Job Network.

List job openings in finance. On the Internet.

Hoovers

Provides you with company info, industry research and contact details. Much of it is free.

How to Get Ahead in Accounting, Finance and Banking,

Robert Half International, Contact your local office for a free copy of this informative brochure or call the corporate office at (415) 854-9700.

I Went to College for This?

The world's first guide to the strange life on the "Planet Business." This irreverent book offers solid advice on starting your career on the right foot. Learn the language that you will need to make it in corporate finance.

Opportunities in Financial Careers

By Michael Sumichrast and Frederick Burkhardt, VGM Career Horizons. Covers the gamut of finance careers with a nice discussion of why corporate finance is an interesting area.

Peterson's Opportunities for Business Majors

Covers the many ways to put your degree to work. Keep in mind, of course, that you don't have to be a business major to pursue a career in finance!

Power Interviews: Job-Winning Tactics from Fortune 500 Recruiters,

By Neil Yeager and Lee Hough, JobQuest. Interviewing secrets with answers to give to 50 common questions. Learn the seven key evaluation factors interviewers use to make decisions.

Resumes for Banking and Financial Careers

Step-by-step advice on getting your resume together for a corporate job.

Tax Jobs.

A web site that allows you to search job listings for tax professionals and to post your own resume.

Treasury Management Careers

Posted by the Treasury Management Association.

Organizations and Certification Opportunities

Financial Executives Institute.

Probably the leading organization for corporate finance professionals. Their conferences are quite popular.

Financial Management Association.

The FMA is well-known for sponsoring student chapters at universities around the world.

Treasury Management Association

Very strong in the area of cash management, but covers other areas of corporate finance.

Certified Cash Manager.

This designation has been developed to define standards and measure mastery of cash management and related treasury services. For more information contact: CCM Certification Program, NCCMA, Box 7001, Newtown, CT 06470 or call (301) 907-2862.

Magazines and Newspapers (Online and Off)

CFO Magazine

Magazine addressed to senior financial executives covers a wide variety of issues in corporate finance. Good place to start learning about this career area.

Corporate Cashflow

Industry magazine covering treasury operations. (404) 256-9800.

Economist

Widely read weekly covers world of investment banking, politics and art quite well. You have to read this if you plan to go into the field.

Financial Management

This periodical is issued by the Financial Management Association International and carries many articles about current issues in corporate finance. You can receive this and other items including Financial Management Collection by joining a student chapter of the FMA. There is also a finance leaders conference each spring which allows students to meet key financial officers from around the US. If you would like more information write to: Financial Management Association, University of South Florida, College of Business Administration, Tampa, FL 33620, (813) 974-2084.

Ideas and Know-How

Applied Corporate Finance: A User's Manual

By Aswath Damodaran. Walks you through how to do corporate finance in detail with extensive examples.

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

By Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Harper Collins Books, 1993. Describes the rather crazy life of one corporate executive. Lots of juicy personality conflict. If you liked the movie you will definitely enjoy the book.

Corporate Finance and the Capital Markets

A compilation of the best articles on corporate finance from the Harvard Business Review.

Corporate Financial Management

By Douglas Emery and John Finnerty, Prentice-Hall. An excellent, detailed book on topics in corporate finance. If you want to study what the field is about, this is a good book to start with. More "real world" than Brealey & Myers and Ross.

The New Corporate Finance: Where Theory Meets Practice

Edited by Don Chew of Stern Stewart. This book is a collection of papers by famous and not-so-famous authors, exploring capital structure, investment policy, risk managemt, corporate financial restructuring and other nice details on the new thoughts of corporate finance. It is indispensible for those dealing with the subject, as a mean to refresh the concepts.

Super CFOs

Fortune, November 13, 1995. This well-written article explains how financial officers can add value and goes through examples from Chrysler, Disney and General Electric.

"Scientific management at Merck: An interview with CFO Judy Lewent.

By Nancy Nichols, Harvard Business Review, January/February 1994, p. 88-91. Gives a good look at the operations of a sophisticated corporate treasury operation.

Finance Site List

An online compendium of web sites of interest to students and those who follow finance. Courtesy of the Journal of Finance.