Your Guide to Getting Hired Faster in Finance Consulting (Fractional CFO)

Jim Burke, Co-Founder and CEO of Rapid Analytics, Inc.

Match the market NOT what is stuck in your head.

Why marketing with LinkedIn is too passive.

Your resume has to be about driving margin and innovation using software & financial models, not cutting costs - anybody can cut costs. 

Why Co-Pilot is not compelling AI. 

Why you will get booted out of interview if you think Excel is software instead of a pencil.

Q&A 

About James Burke

Spent the first 10 years as an auditor started with the NY State Comptroller ended with PWC in Hong Kong

Got into software sales in Hong Kong, eventually was the lead sales rep for Dun & Bradstreet Software in Hong Kong and transferred back to the D&B office for metro NYC focused on financial services firms.

Worked at a long forgotten ERP software company that was long ago sold and sent to the bone yard of software but became a headhunter right around the Year 2k.

Learned that Hyperion had a massive tail of consulting and headhunting business that swam in its wake and started my own firm in 2002 - The Pascack Group

Then merged together 2 other consulting firms with Pascack to what became Ayudatek - focused on consulting & recruiting & software distribution in the budgeting / analytics / consolidation space in N. America

Became the co-founder of both Masterful Data and Rapid Analytics -  both software companies and both leverage the office of the CFO.