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How to Find the Best FP&A Candidates for Your Team

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Here's more about who FP&A candidates are: Education: They often have a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field. Risk Management: Skills in identifying, assessing, and managing financial risks are important. This includes assessing market risks, credit risks, and operational risks.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

But there are so many tools at your disposal, and let alone how much duration you’re taking, how much interest, how much credit risk you’re taking, illiquidity, et cetera. And how do you make the decision, I’m not comfortable with this credit risk relative to the return it’s going to throw off?

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: That allows you to make charitable bets based on long-term educational beliefs. SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. What was interesting was I had said to him, “Well, let’s make this really educational. So the credit markets froze.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

There are an endless variety of business models and seeing how people operate that, it’s really an education, one that I think a lot of people coming out of school don’t think about, because you think about the sexy things. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz : So, so let’s talk a little bit about your career in real estate, but before we get to that, I just gotta ask on your LinkedIn under education, it says, didn’t graduate, none working for a living. And up until that moment in time, we didn’t spend a lot of time on credit risk in mortgages.

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Transcript: Ken Kencel

Barry Ritholtz

KENCEL: — or somebody who’s a teacher, and so I’m passionate about education. So obviously, risk managers, you know, and CROs were very focused on how do we manage that risk and diversify that credit risk that they were taking on in mid-market companies. You guys had a huge year. KENCEL: Yeah.