823 Advizers
Alice
Senior Manager, FP&A
The Bouqs Company
Occidental College
UCLA Anderson MBA

UCLA Anderson
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."