Associate

🏢 Accordion · 📍 Boston; Chicago; Dallas; New York · 💼 onsite 💰 $112,500 - $160,000 / yr
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Company Overview

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark. 

Strategic Finance

Accordion’s Strategic Finance Practice helps Finance teams build capabilities to enhance performance visibility, planning activities, data analytics, and business partnering to enable and accelerate value creation.

By combining extensive operational FP&A experience, data and technology skills, and a proprietary engagement model, we develop and implement tools and processes and deliver solutions that meet the rigor and pace required in a private equity-backed environment.

This role can be based in our Boston, Chicago, Dallas, or New York City office locations and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

What You’ll Do:

As an Associate on a lean, cross-functional team, you will work collaboratively with a diverse set of colleagues with backgrounds in private equity, investment banking, FP&A, Big 4, and financial controllership, to identify and rectify issues across a broad range of scenarios. The following representative engagements are emblematic of the type of work you will do as an Associate at Accordion.

  • A financial services company recently emerged from bankruptcy and underwent changes in ownership. They need additional visibility into company-wide financial and operational performance. You are brought in to:
    • Determine data availability and reliability and design a structured process to aggregate relevant data sets that will serve as the foundation of all future reporting
    • Work with the CFO, PE sponsor, a
🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Accordion Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Strict focus on advanced financial modeling, private equity value-creation mechanics, and immediate C-suite advisory credibility.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Flawed technical accounting or financial modeling errors during live case tests.
  • 2. Inability to synthesize complex financial data into a concise, actionable executive summary.
  • 3. Arrogance or talking down to corporate finance team members during engagements.
✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I partner with private equity sponsors and portfolio CFOs to pull the exact operational levers that accelerate enterprise value.

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