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October 3, 2024 3:17am ET
Applying: Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton, UVA / Darden, Yale SOM
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Commercial Finance
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey
GRE: 325
GPA: 2.37
Years of Work Experience: 8
Location: Sydney, Australia
Post MBA Location: Northeast USA
Notes:

I am currently a commercial finance professional, 8 years experience at matriculation in 2025. Broad finance experience across technical accounting, FP&A, acquisitions, finance transformation and commercial finance. Currently lead global pricing strategy and liaise with the PE company operating partners on initiative development. The companies I've worked at are across a variety of sectors but always on the service side (ie labour intensive) of that sector, and almost all have been PE-backed portfolio companies.

CA and CFA Charterholder with Master of Economics with 6.7/7.0 GPA. Had a bit of a hiccup in my 2nd year of undergrad. I got the personal issue sorted and switched majors from law to accounting, but it hurt the GPA.

Heavily involved in the community. 2 years on a CA subsidiary board, VP of local branch of a major Australian political party, tutored CFA candidates for 2.5 years with a reputable 3rd part provider, and am on the Events Committee at work. Also founded a wine club in my neighbourhood with 30 members and sail in summer.

Short-term goal is consulting in the private equity practice. Long-term goal is to return to Australia after a stint in the US (to learn from the scale) and join a PE Ops group as an operating partner or as an executive at a portfolio company.