The Premier Finance Career Coaching Service
NextGen Advising provides personalized, white-glove service to help students and early career professionals pursue a successful career in finance. Through our extended specialty advisors, NextGen offers direct finance experience at some of the most influential companies in the world–including Google, Louis Vuitton, Meta, and Yelp–as well as a strong CFO network across a wide range of industries and companies.
An Insider’s Perspective on the Finance Career Landscape and Growth Opportunities
Corporate Finance professionals are the strategic backbone of any organization, offering significant growth and advancement potential (please see our financial services page if you are interested in working at a pure financial services company). We provide college students and early career professionals an insider’s perspective on the finance career landscape:
- The Role of Finance: Understanding how finance functions like Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Accounting, Tax, and Treasury work together to safeguard the company's assets and drive profitable growth.
- Strategic Business Partnership: Highlighting how modern finance teams move beyond simple reporting to become strategic advisors, directly influencing operational and market strategy across all business units and departments.
- Operational Impact: Focusing on how finance drives business efficiency through budgeting, internal controls, and managing capital allocation to maximize shareholder value.
- AI Impact: Understanding the impact of AI on the function and the skills you need to stay on the cutting edge
- Growth Potential: Charting career paths that lead to senior roles such as Finance Manager, Director of FP&A, Vice President of Finance, and ultimately, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Finance Career Advising Programs We Offer

Finance Internship Career Counseling
For college and graduate students, we offer a comprehensive, proven process to help you secure a summer or semester internship in a corporate finance function at a non-financial services company. Our premium service not only helps you better understand the different areas of Corporate Finance, but also helps identify positions that align with your unique interests, values, and strengths. We then collaborate with you to set achievable goals and build a detailed, step-by-step plan to obtain your ideal finance internship.
- Exploring the different types of corporate finance positions (e.g., Financial Planning & Analyst, Internal Audit Intern, Treasury Analyst) and internal partner support models (e.g., Sales Finance, Marketing Finance, Finance Operations) and matching them with your unique interests and skills.
- Offering insights into the different working environments (e.g., start-up, public company, non-profit) and how that translates into your day-to-day.
- Helping tailor your resume for specific finance roles–highlighting relevant coursework, budgeting and forecasting experience, and business intelligence tools–as well as proactively identifying and closing any skill gaps.
- Honing your technical and behavioral interviewing skills so that you can feel confident pursuing your ideal finance role.
- Project managing your internship search and application process, including navigating the hiring cycles of large corporations.

Finance Career Coaching for Full-Time Jobs
For upper-classmen and graduate students, we offer specialized coaching to secure your first full-time role in Corporate Finance. Our comprehensive approach goes beyond interview preparation and includes perfecting your professional brand as a strategic business partner, developing a focused networking strategy, and honing your communication style for cross-functional collaboration. We conduct a thorough analysis to pinpoint and close any skill or knowledge gaps, ensuring you develop the critical, professional skills needed to not just land the job, but to thrive early in your career within areas like:
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Accounting
- Tax
- Internal Audit
- Treasury
- Specialized roles like Sales Finance or Marketing Finance

Career Changes & Career Advancement Guidance
For early career professionals, we also specialize in career changes–both big and small–as well as career advancement. We begin by helping you reflect deeply on what you are looking for in your next move and architect a detailed plan to get there. This may be an internal move (e.g., from Accounting to FP&A) or an external one, a lateral shift or an upward one. We will help develop a personalized strategy to achieve your corporate finance career goals, guiding you through every step of the execution.
- Learn how to articulate your value proposition and market yourself as an essential strategic partner.
- Develop interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence to successfully influence business unit leaders.
- Strengthen communication and presentation skills, crucial for presenting financial results and forecasts to management.
- Improve relationship building and networking across various departments (e.g., Operations, Sales, HR).
- Assess and ameliorate both strengths and weaknesses to ensure career success and progression.
- Set clear, achievable goals in parallel with bi-annual and annual performance review process.
Package Options to Fit Your Needs
We offer three career counseling packages based upon your needs. We’ll recommend the package that’s right for you during our initial consultation, and then we’ll work together to determine how to use your hours to help you achieve your goals.
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