FINANCE MAJOR OUTCOMES There are immediate employment opportunities for finance majors in firms operating in the financial industry banking, investments, insurance, real estate, and securities. Finance graduates find professional career opportunities in a wide variety of areas, including corporate finance, investments, money and capital markets, banking, insurance and other financial services. THE MEDIAN STARTING SALARY FOR 2014 FINANCE GRADUATES WAS $49,500. Some recent Creighton finance graduates have interned and are employed in the following positions, in addition to gaining acceptance into some of the most prestigious graduate and professional schools in the nation: Title or Field of Advanced Study Consultant Financial Associate Investment Project Manager Human Resources Associate Investment Insurance Broker Company or School Accenture (Kansas City, MO) Acclaro Valuation Advisors (Omaha, NE) Adams Consulting Group (Minneapolis, MN) Aether Investment Partners (Denver, CO) Aker Philadelphia Shipyard (Philadelphia, PA) Airlite Plastics (Omaha, NE) AllianceBernstein (New York, NY) American National Bank (Omaha, NE) Ameritas (Omaha, NE) AON Risk Services (Omaha, NE) Aventine Renewable Energy (Dallas, TX) Investment / Credit Bank of America (Charlotte, NC; New York, NY; Chicago, IL) Management Development Trainee Bank of Springfield (Springfield, IL) Credit Bank of the West (Omaha, NE) Business Barclays Capital (London, UK) Commercial Underwriter / Financial Investment Banking Commodities Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Co. (Omaha, NE; Denver, CO) BlackRock, Inc. (Seattle, WA) BP (Omaha, NE)
Business Burlington Capital Group (Omaha, NE) Business Consultant Cerner (Kansas City, MO) Financial Chipotle, Inc. (Denver, CO) Equity Research Associate Citigroup (Buffalo, NY) Rotational Business Associate CNA Insurance (Chicago, IL) Financial / Financial Development Program ConAgra Foods (Omaha, NE; Minneapolis, MN; Chicago, IL) Financial Representative Continuum Financial (Omaha, NE) Finance Business Service Center Creighton University (Omaha, NE) Marketing Director Crossover Symmetry (Denver, CO) Accountant D&J Beverage (Omaha, NE) Advisory Consultant Deloitte (Chicago, IL; Omaha, NE) Banker Dundee Bank (Omaha, NE) Dundee Venture Capital (Omaha, NE) Financial Ecolab (Minneapolis, MN) Management Trainee Your Master Plan (YMP) Program Staff Accountant / Risk Advisory Consultant Edward Jones (St. Louis, MO) Ernst & Young (Kansas City, MO) Account Manager Ethos Consulting Group (Denver, CO) Vendor/Asset Management Express Scripts (St. Louis, MO) Financial FAF Advisors (Minneapolis, MN) Research / Federal Reserve Bank (Kansas City, MO) Financial Institutions Specialist FDIC (Kansas City, MO; Omaha, NE; Denver, CO) Release Coordinator First Data Corporation (Omaha, NE)
Management Trainee / Business Risk / Treasury / Credit First National Bank (Omaha, NE) Business Development Five Elms Capital (Kansas City, MO) Investment Management Research FolioMetrix (Omaha, NE) Loan Processor Foundations First Bank (Omaha, NE) Investment Research & Strategic Pricing Coordinator Front Row Capital (New York, NY) GALLUP (Omaha, NE) Financial / Commodity Trader Gavilon (Omaha, NE) Financial Management Program Research Associate GE Aviation (Cincinnati, OH) Geraty Investments (Minneapolis, MN) Financial Consultant / Consultant Enterprise Marketing Practice Grant Thornton (Omaha, NE) Junior Trading Private Equity Green Plains Renewable Energy (Omaha, NE) Hewitt Ennis Knupp (Chicago, IL) Consulting Huron Consulting Group (Chicago, IL) Commissions Coordinator ING (Des Moines, IA) Investment Centers of America (Aberdeen, SD) Javlin Capital (Omaha, NE) Private Banking JP Morgan Chase (Washington, DC) Sales Representative Kansas City Chiefs (Kansas City, MO) Treasury / Assistant Business Manager / District Purchasing Coordinator Kiewit (Omaha, NE; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Kansas City, MO) Personal Banker Klein Bank (Chaska, MN)
Credit Koch Industries (Wichita, KS) Claims Associate Lincoln Financial Group (Omaha, NE) Strategic / Account Manager / Broker Lockton Companies (Kansas City, MO) Investment Banking Product Development (Merchandising Group) Macquarie Capital (Chicago, IL) Macy s (New York, NY) Financial Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) Financial McCann (New York, NY) Finance Rotation Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) General Manager of Operations Mountain State Provisioners, LLC (Denver, CO) Medicare Auditor / / Associate Underwriter Mutual of Omaha (Omaha, NE; Kansas City, MO) Investment Accountant National Indemnity Company (Omaha, NE) Acquisitions NGL Energy (Omaha, NE) Operations Nomura Securities (New York, NY) NorthRock Partners (Minneapolis, MN) Financial Representative Northwestern Mutual Financial Network (Omaha, NE & Minneapolis, MN) Internal Wholesaler / LTC Sales Support Pacific Life (Omaha, NE) Financial Pricing Coordinator Patpatia & Associates (Berkeley, CA) PepsiCo (Chicago, IL) Asset Physician s Mutual Insurance Company (Omaha, NE) Investment Banking Piper Jaffray & Co. (Minneapolis, MN)
Management Consulting Promidian (New York, NY) Investment Banking Raymond James Investments (Boston, MA) Branch Associate RBC Wealth Management (Omaha, NE) Renaissance Financial (Omaha, NE) Investment Banking Robert W. Baird (Milwaukee, WI) Credit Saint Louis Bank (St. Louis, MO) Investment Banking Sandler O Neill + Partners, L.P. (Chicago, IL) Financial Sears Holding Corporation (Chicago, IL) Investment Spectrum Financial Services, Inc. (Omaha, NE) Standard & Poor (Denver, CO) Financial Services Agent State Farm Insurance (Omaha, NE) Investment Banking Sterne Agee (New York, NY) Business Target Corporation (Minneapolis, MN) Investment Representative / Transfer / Credit TD Ameritrade (Omaha, NE) Trading / Market Risk / Private Equity Tenaska (Omaha, NE & Ft. Worth, Texas) Pricing & Promotions The Mergis Group (Minneapolis, MN) Credit Monitoring & Control Specialist Risk Management The PrivateBank (Chicago, IL) Equity Trader Tradebot Systems (Kansas City, MO) Credit / Loan Portfolio Manager Treynor State Bank (Treynor, IA) Assistant Vice President TriValley Bank (Talmage, NE)
Business UBS Investments (Omaha, NE) Financial / Internal Auditor / Supply Chain Union Pacific Corporation (Omaha, NE) Associate Financial & Budget University of Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha, NE) Loan Officer US Bank (Minneapolis, MN & Omaha, NE) Financial Manager Vision2Voice (Omaha, NE) Credit / Loan Officer / Consumer Loan Underwriter / / Wells Fargo (Omaha, NE; Minneapolis, MN; Des Moines, IA; St. Louis, MO) Fleet Coordinator / Rate Werner Enterprises (Omaha, NE) Financial West Corporation (Omaha, NE) Advisory Westwood Holdings Group (Omaha, NE) Financial Yahoo!, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA & Omaha, NE) Underwriter Zurich North America (Omaha, NE) / MBA / Medical / Dental / Investment Management & Financial Analysis Creighton University (Omaha, NE) Duke University (Durham, NC) / MBA Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA) Economics University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR) University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA) Neurochemical Research University of Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha, NE) University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) MBA University of Oregon (Eugene, OR) University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI)
CAREER ASSISTANCE The Heider College of Business at Creighton gives you the chance to test your skills in the real world through its premier internship programs. The Creighton Career Center works closely with students to assist them in finding fulltime positions in which to utilize their knowledge to work after graduation. OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK INFORMATION: Occupational Outlook Handbook (U.S. Department of Labor) www.bls.gov/oco Economists http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos055.htm Market and Survey Researchers http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos013.htm#related Financial Managers http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos010.htm Financial s and s http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos301.htm Banking Industry Guide www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs027.htm Insurance Industry Guide http://stats.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs028.htm Investments Industry Guide www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs029.htm Securities, Commodities and Financial Services Agents http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos122.htm CAREER INFORMATION AND JOB SEARCH RESOURCES: Creighton Career Center www.creighton.edu/careercenter Jobs4Jays www.creighton.edu/careercenter/jobs4jays Vault s Career Insider http://careerinsider.vault.com/wps/portal/careerinsider?parrefer=2213 Going Global www.creighton.edu/careercenter/goingglobal JobWeb (from the National Association of Colleges and Employers) www.jobweb.com The Riley Guide www.rileyguide.com USA Jobs (Federal Government Jobs) www.usajobs.gov LinkedIn www.linkedin.com Econ-Jobs www.econ-jobs.com Federal Reserve Jobs www.federalreserve.gov/careers Financial Careers www.efinancialcareers.com PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: American Economics Association (AEA) www.aeaweb.org Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) www.afponline.org Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards www.cfp.net Financial Management Association (FMA) www.fma.org International Economic Development Council www.iedconline.org Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org National Association for Business Economics www.nabe.com/careers