E120: PwC Audit -> TAS to M&A Valuations @ F500 -> FinTech Director

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4.9 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, FinTechSF shares his winding path from graduating during the financial crisis in 2008 and having to leave the US as an international student back to Dubai. Learn how he got his foot in the door at PwC in audit and managed to make the transition over to the transaction advisory practice in only 1.5 years even though they kept telling him no. Find out why he moved back to the US a few years later and eventually joined the corporate side in their M&A group.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.
0:21.6	Let's get to it.
0:25.3	In this episode, FinTechSF shares his winding path from graduating during the financial crisis in 2008
0:32.0	and having to leave the U.S. as an international student back to Dubai.
0:36.5	Learn how he got his foot in the door at
0:38.5	PWC in audit and managed to make the transition over to transaction advisory practice in only
0:45.0	1.5 years, even though they kept telling him no. Find out also why he moved back to the U.S.
0:51.2	a few years later and eventually joined to the corporate side in their MNA
0:54.3	group. Enjoy.
1:05.2	Okay, FinTechSF, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.
1:09.6	Hey, Patrick, happy to be here.
1:11.2	So it would be great if you could just get the listeners a short summer of your bio.
1:14.8	Yeah, happy to.
1:16.1	So I've studied in school in California, graduated in 2008, right in the heart of the financial crisis.
1:24.0	Good timing.
1:24.7	Good time.
1:25.6	Yeah, to add to that, was it was an international student so
1:28.9	made me life even harder to find a job oh my gosh I just talked to a guy earlier today who
1:33.7	also graduated exactly in the way and he he yeah he turned down an offer from goldman and then like
1:38.9	three days later leaving class he's like what did I do yeah yeah I'm sorry Sorry, go ahead. So, yeah, so international student, 08 graduate.
1:46.9	Yeah.
1:48.1	So I was trying to make something happen in California.
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