Monthly Archives: August 2011

Undergraduate Career Expo

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MPA Students Invited to Fall 2011 Undergraduate Career Expo

The Fall 2011 Undergraduate Career Expo is on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 from 10:00A – 3:00P at the RecSports Center. Over 140 companies will be in attendance and they are looking to connect with MPA students.  Business professional attire and UTID card are required.

Important note for third-year MPA students: Per the requirements of the Public Accounting Recruiting Calendar, please do not distribute your resume to any of the following firms until the formal third-year public accounting recruiting period begins in the spring: BKD, BDO, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and UHY Advisors.

For a full list of companies attending expo:  login to OCR at http://mccombs-utexas-csm.symplicity.com/sso/students/login

(under the “Events” tab on the home page, click on “Fall 2011 Undergraduate Career Expo”)

For additional career expo information:   http://fcc.mccombs.utexas.edu/ucc/students/

Submitted by Francisco Loredo

EY Information Session for traditional, 5th-year, and 4th-year MPA Students Only

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Company:  Ernst & Young
Location: UTC 3.104
Description: Monday, August 29th from 5:30-6:30 in UTC 3.104

Company Description:

At Ernst & Young, our 144,000 professionals work together to deliver assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. We are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. And, we make a difference though leading practices that develop our people, help our clients and strengthen our communities. Our collaborative culture supports the personal and professional success of each individual. Learn more about who we are, what we do and how to achieve your potential by visiting ey.com/us/eyinsight. And, visit us at ey.com/us/careers and see why Ernst & Young has been on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 12 consecutive years, longer than any of the other Big Four.

Submitted by Vincent Taylor

HBSA Presents: 31st Annual Company Night

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Are you currently searching for an internship or full-time position with a top tier company?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 If so, then HBSA’s Company Night is an event you definitely don’t want to miss! Whether you are searching for that perfect internship, full-time job, or wanting to build up your professional network, Company Night is where your future awaits. Company Night 2011 is the 31st annual career fair held by McCombs School of Business’ 2010-2011 Most Outstanding Organization, the Hispanic Business Student Association.  Come in your business professional attire, bring your resume and UT ID, and be prepared to open doors to the opportunities awaiting you!

When: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Where: McCombs School of Business – Atrium
Time: 6-9 p.m.

Submitted by Francisco Loredo

 

2012 BBA-MPA Financial Analyst

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Company:  Intel
Position:  Financial Analyst
Location:  Hillsboro OR, Santa Clara CA, Folsom CA, Chandler AZ and Rio Rancho NM with limited opportunities in Hudson MA and Austin
Drop: Submit your resume online at The McCombs School of Business Recruiting System
Description: Intel Corporation has exciting Financial Analyst opportunities for undergraduate degree candidates in accounting, finance or economics.  As a member of the Operations Finance team, you will be a full business partner, making and influencing business decisions that maximize shareholder value. Finance is looking for BA/BS degree undergraduate candidates with an emphasis in Accounting, Finance or Economics.  Well qualified candidates will have strong analytical, accounting and controls, problem solving, leadership, teamwork, business partnering and communication skills.  In addition, candidates must have a firm grasp of financial statements and their interrelationships and demonstrated skills utilizing the Microsoft Office Suite of tools.  The ideal candidate will have a GPA of 3.0 or higher.  Graduation dates of December 2011 – Spring 2012.

Development Opportunities:

Intel Finance places a major emphasis on career development.  Through the Finance Rotation Program, you may choose to rotate to various roles and have the career opportunity to build a broad set of skills and experiences to improve performance, grow professionally, and gain exposure to different finance functions and Intel businesses worldwide.  Intel also offers over 5,000 specialized training courses for continued development.  In addition, Intel Finance encourages employees to continue their formal education as part of their professional development by providing financial assistance for job related education such as CPA, CFA or MBA.

Responsibilities:

  • Capital and factory capacity analysis
  • Budgetary plans and tracking
  • Project valuation and prioritization
  • Cost reduction and expense controls    
  • Financial statement analysis
  • Systems implementation
  • Pricing analysis and reporting
  • Management reporting

Submitted by Vincent Taylor

2012 BBA-MPA Internship

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Company:  Intel
Position:  Finance Intern
Location:  Chandler AZ, Hillsboro OR, Santa Clara and Folsom CA with limited opportunities in Rio Rancho NM, Hudson MA and Austin, TX
Drop: Submit your resume online at The McCombs School of Business Recruiting System
Description: The Finance Summer Intern Program is a 12 week assignment within an Intel Finance group where interns undertake a challenging project designed to blend strategic and operational work.  You will be provided with a full network of individuals to ensure you have an incredible internship experience!  You will also be assigned a controller level mentor, a peer level buddy, and you will have frequent educational and fun events with interns from all over the U.S.  A favorite activity is the intern trip to our Santa Clara headquarters (via our private jets) for a finance intern event. Your internship will culminate with a high visibility presentation to senior management and the Intel Finance community as well as to the operations group you support.

Responsibilities:

  • competitive analysis & recommendations                
  • product pricing & benchmarking
  • capital affordability and should-cost modeling         
  • strategic modeling
  • factory capacity analysis                                        
  • new product development valuation
  • strategic project valuation and prioritization             
  • cost reduction analysis
  • critical success metric development                        
  • inventory valuation

Requirements and Skills:

Intel offers both a one year and two year summer intern program. Intel Finance is looking for Undergraduate and MPA candidates with graduation dates between May 2013 and May 2014 with degree emphasis in Finance, Economics, or Accounting and minimum 3.0 GPA.  Successful candidates should be able to demonstrate strong analytical, problem solving, influence, leadership and communication skills.  In addition, candidates must possess a firm grasp of financial statements and their interrelationships; accounting and control knowledge is a plus.  The ideal candidate will also have a demonstrated ability to deliver results in a short time period while working in a dynamic, cross functional, team orientated environment. This is a paid internship with relocation benefits for those who must travel more than 50 miles to the work location.

Submitted by Vincent Taylor

Employment Seminar with Immigration Attorney

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When: Tuesday, March 8, 2011; 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Where: RLM 4.102 (F-1 Students) & RLM 6.104 (J-1 Students & Scholars)

An Employment Seminar will be presented by International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS) and Corina M. Farias, an Immigration Attorney who is board certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

The seminar will cover two main topics:
1.   Employment options that are available to international students and scholars in F-1 and J-1 immigration status while in their programs
2.   Post-graduation/completion employment options for international students & scholars

Agenda
6:00 – 6:50 p.m.: International Advisors from ISSS will present on F-1 and J-1 employment issues
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.: Corina M. Farias will discuss issues such as work visa options after graduation, permanent residence, and other related topics

This meeting is open to all international students, faculty, and scholars and is free of charge!

Submitted by Francisco Loredo

Investment Management Position with TRS

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The Teacher Retirement System is responsible for managing the pension trust fund for all public school employees in Texas.  TRS is a defined benefit plan, with a market value of approximately $106 billion.

TRS is currently seeking an individual to assist the Investment Trading Team with the following:

  • preparation and review of pre- and post trade analysis reports across asset classes and products
  • preparation and review of periodic management reports and presentations
  • assist Traders with ad hoc projects
  • perform quality control checks to confirm accuracy of potential trade list by reconciling the trade blotter to trade source documents
  • monitor ongoing trades by taking and relaying phone messages from broker/dealers

Qualifications/Basic Requirements include: 

Minimum qualifications

  • 4th or 5th year MPA, or MBA student or 4th year BBA student
  • Strong quantitative and analystical skills
  • Proficient in Excel and Powerpoint
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills
  • General knowledge of financial markets
  • Ability to work in a fast paced team environment with rapidly changing priorities

Preferred qualifications

  • General knowledge of Visual Basic and Microsoft Access
  • Experience using the Bloomberg system

Compensation

  • Hourly rate $25 per hour
  • Average 20-30 hours per week

Please email questions or resumes to:   patricia.cantu@trs.state.tx.us

Submitted by Francisco Loredo

2011 Livestrong Challenge

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Texas MBAs, recent grads, and interested members of the McCombs community:

The Lance Armstrong Foundation’s LIVESTRONG Challenge will be held October 15-16 and the McCombs School of Business, once again, has a team. I’m inviting you to join the fun by participating in the event or supporting one of your classmates who is. The cause is a good one and the camaraderie makes it worthwhile by itself.

The LIVESTRONG Challenge Austin takes place in downtown Austin and Dripping Springs. You can take part in a 5K run/walk on Saturday and/or the multi-distance bike ride with 20, 45, 65 and 90 mile options. I can tell you from my experience with the bike ride the past three years that the event is one of the best organized rides in the area. It has well-stocked rest stops on a beautiful course in Texas Hill Country.

You can sign on to The McCombs School of Business team for the 2011 LIVESTRONG Challenge – Austin is at http://austin2011.livestrong.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=442672&lis=1&kntae442672=8C47566AB2E543AE947F643AC545416A&team=4015493 

To provide a little encouragement, I will donate $10 to each of the first 25 MBAs who join the team. 

We are working hard to get team jerseys for this year’s team. We have an amazing design and if we can get the purchase through our trademark and licensing group in time, all current MBA participants will receive one (subject to size availability—jerseys will be distributed to team members in the order they sign up, assuming they have met the fundraising minimums). My fingers are crossed that we can pull this off.

It’s hard to think of a disease that has affected so many of us, directly and indirectly, as cancer has. I hope you’ll consider joining or supporting the McCombs team and help the Lance Armstrong Foundation advance the fight.
Have a great semester,

Eric Hirst
Associate Dean for Graduate Programs &
John Arch White Professor of Business
The University of Texas at Austin
Red McCombs School of Business
Department of Accounting, CBA 2.544
1 University Station B6400

Submitted by Nina Maldonado

Traditional Orientation Follow-up

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Hi Everybody- it was nice to meet you last week at Orientation and we are so excited for you to begin the MPA Program!

There are a few things we wanted to follow up on:

  • If you did not fill out an Orientation Survey, we have some blank ones in the MPA Program Office.  Please stop by at your convenience to fill one out.  They’re anonymous!  They help us so much with planning the following year’s Orientation.  Additionally, some students only filled out one side of the survey so if you didn’t turn it over and fill out the second side please stop by and complete it.  Thank you!
  • If you did not fill out the Talent Release Form and would like to, please stop by the MPA Program Office.  We asked you to fill them out at the Career Fair because we had a photographer taking candid shots for our website and publications.  It’s possible that you may be in the background of one of the pictures.  It was just easier to get you to sign a blanket release than having to figure out who everybody is and then track down each student in the photo!  It is not mandatory that you fill out the form but we would sure appreciate it!
  • A pair of sunglasses were left at the first day of Orientation.  Please stop by the MPA Program Office to claim them. 

Submitted by Madeline Chauvin