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Prof Evaluation - Chinese Female

by MBAwannabe10 » Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:47 pm
Hi,

I am applying for B-school round 1 this year and am currently looking for a consultant agency to help me with my application process. If you can give me a profile evaluation and tell me a bit more of your service, I would most appreciated.

Profile:

Age 29
Nationality: Chinese
GMAT: 710 (Q49,V38)
GPA 2.9 @ UCLA. (Had 3.8 at the end of 2nd year. Then I had to work full time during 3rd and 4th years to pay off tuition while functioning as a director of fundraising in our student community service committee. At beginning 4th year, i already got a job offer from a pre IPO company so I didn't work as hard as should. After graduation, I had taken many UCLA extension courses graduation and never have a grade lower than B while working full time. I also past my CPA test with only one try.


Professional Experience and Accomplishments:

Experience:

As a Senior Accountant:
4 years of working experiences in Real Estate.
Senior Accountant @ Westfield: 1 years - budget, forecast of corporate overheads over $38M.
Senior Accountant @ CB Richard Ellis: 3 years - assisted with property annual reforecast and budget with revenue over $5M while managing the whole accounting of a property over 900 square feet.

As a Financial Analyst:
2 years at Entertainment Industry @ Universal Music Group - Provide actual, forecast, and budgeted tax provision for all entities across Universal Music Group

Project Accomplishments:
Lead a major SAP implementation for Universal Music Group's new billing procedure
Helped marketing director in CB Richard Ellis in bring in new revenues for the property.
AICPA License

International Exposure:
- Universal Music Group is owned by French, and I worked on the foreign tax reconciliation - well versed on the impact of change of exchange rate has on business . In fact, the new implementation I worked helped to mitigate exchange rate risk.

- Westfield parent company is in Australia. My work deals with financial requests from the Australia parent company.

- Currently ongoing: paired with a Chinese company to propose a new business model to bring in a new stream of revenue at Westfield. We will be ready to present the package in October. (unfortunately, that won't make it to R1 deadline)

Outside Work Activities:

- College: fundraising director for the UCLA student community service committee

- Current: Volunteer my time as a financial adviser for a nonprofit organization.

- Current: Participant in Fundraising event for special Olympic game for the toy and game function of the fundraising event.

Career Goal:

Short Term: Work and make to the managerial level at top financial consulting firm
Long Term: Open my own financial consulting firm to help business, hopefully focusing on nonprofit or small business owners.
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by mcbMcK » Sun Jul 20, 2014 6:09 am
Dear MBAwannabe10,

Here are a few thoughts on your profile:
  1. Your academic accomplishments seem pretty good on the face of it - great undergrad brand, CPA, fair GMAT. The challenge could be explaining the low GPA especially in the fourth year. A consistent downward trend can put a bit of a setback on your overall profile. While your GPAs gonna be what it is, its good that you have the CPA thing going for you. Make sure to address this part in your application to remove doubts in the adcoms
  2. It is not clear what you mean by Financial Consulting. What kind of first do you have in mind? Do you mean management consulting firms (e.g. McK/BCG etc) that have a finance practice/vertical? Or did you mean a pure play Financial Consulting firm (maybe Oliver Wyman?). That will be an important aspect to understand and then defend. These firms do stress on your analytical/quantitative skills - so you will have to show sufficient impact on the work side to be a credible candidates (given that the GMAT isnt really stellar). On the long term goal, when it comes to entrepreneurship the question of WHY is always difficult to defend. Why cant you do what you want to do as part of a bigger organization? Or Why do you think you can succeed in making a venture work? So on and so forth. So be very weary of a long term goal that is not well thought through
From an overall perspective, I think the profile is pretty good and one that if projected well, can make you a serious contender for some pretty good schools out there. So decide well.

You can check out our services on our website (mentioned in my signature).

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by MBAPrepAdvantage » Sun Jul 20, 2014 5:04 pm
What was your degree in? The difficult of your degree is one of the MBA Admissions Criteria used by committees in evaluating your candidacy. UCLA Anderson though is a strong undergraduate school (I graduated from the graduate program - UCLA Anderson). I think you are competitive for the 8 - 20, but would have more difficulty breaking into the top 7 - although you might be competitive for Columbia's Early Decision round.

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