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Alice

Senior Manager, FP&A

The Bouqs Company

Occidental College
UCLA Anderson MBA

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Alice Choi has over 9 years of experience in FP&A, financial modeling, and strategic planning, specializing in Retail, E-commerce, and Subscriptions.
UCLA Anderson

UCLA Anderson

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
Finance
Economics
Honors Student
Immigrant

Q1Career path

Finance

Accounting

Career Path

3:13

"Economics was one of the classes you had to take. So I ended up falling in love with a class and decided to change my career path."

Q2Main responsibilities

E-commerce

Profit and Loss (P&L) Management

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

1:12

"I manage the entire p and l."

Q3Day in the life

Sales Analysis

Budgeting

Financial Modeling

2:41

"Improving our reporting... trying to figure out a way how to automate it and also making it more visible and legible for our business partners."

Q4Most important skills - role

Financial Analysis

Technical Skills

Data Manipulation

2:27

"If you're looking to get into finance, absolutely learn Excel...don't just watch, but like actually, uh, you know, follow through with example."

Q5Favorite parts - role

E-commerce

Data Analysis

Problem-Solving

1:04

"My favorite part at this moment is actually solving problems and analyzing new initiatives...just like solving a puzzle."

Q6Biggest challenge - role

Data Analysis

Budget Management

Financial Planning & Analysis

1:39

"Working with them to try to not be seen as the bad guy is a challenge."

Q7Favorite parts - industry

Product Understanding

Consumer Goods

Financial Planning & Analysis

1:39

"Seeing myself use the product... makes it so much easier from like a finance perspective to be able to do analysis at a deeper level."

Q8Who thrives in industry

Transparency

Proactive

Communication

1:25

"being very proactive and very communicative... being very transparent... telling them what they see... to help grow the company."

Q9Wish known before - industry

Adaptability

Financial Modeling

Consumer Products

2:12

"They might be completely full with meetings, just meeting with your, your, uh, business partners."

Q10Entry-level positions

Financial Analysis

Private Equity

Investment Banking

1:59

"Especially if it's, if your entry level position, uh, you'll accelerate like at a very high level, you'll learn a lot."

Q11Significant lesson - career

Professional Development

Self-Advocacy

Communication Skills

1:50

"Speaking up is better than not speaking at all."

Q12College ideas for success

Early Career Experience

Internships

Academic Performance

2:04

"It was I had, I think I committed five or six hours of of my time for this internship...and it made a huge difference in my career."