Pros
The management and team are helpful and hand-on. Growth oppurtunities are always provided to those that are digilently working and show understanding of the work. The pay is great and the vacation time. The insurance is okay as it can be a bit high. There is 401k options as well. You can learn alot from the team regarding finance. Everyone is open and down to earth inculding the upper managment postions.
Cons
Excessive overtime. Lack of procedural/policy resources everything is told to you in a vitual meeting and never in writing. Which is impossible to follow in a every changing industry like finance. There is no clear division of team/departments. Any and all work can, and will be shifted to Operations for assistance. Thus, quick training and high expections for completion of the new document type is pushed constantly. Thus, resulting in the high volume of operation work piling up, therefore additional overtime to complete your expected productive level. As most corporate financial companies the expectation of set number of production items are impossible to match with the additional reports,tasks, meetings, and assistance required to complete each day. Yet, you must report on why you didn't meet the number everyday. Also you are able to see daily how much each team member did making you someone who could very well be pushing to the max look less than your counter parts. The high level of stress the enviroment as a whole creates is physically, mentally, and spiritual exhausting. There is no real work/ life/ school balance.