3. My initial career objectives are to graduate and then take the HICPA in December. After that comes the process of building a long-term career. I want to come into KPMG and be able to make a contribution immediately. I wish to build my auditing knowledge and learn about business communication and how to be a professional. There is much to learn about professional standards of behavior, auditing skills and learning how to be a leader in my field.
I see myself as learning these basic things in order to propel myself into a career in accounting, consulting and eventually corporate finance. I wish to help companies to become better, to realize their objectives. In performing this service, I will realize my objectives as I take on progressively more complex role, perhaps eventually leading to a partnership or a small finance startup of my own, following in my father's entrepreneurial footsteps.
When I was a marketing intern at Hang Seng Trading, I was at a fairly low position in the company. However, I knew that I had a great contribution to make, applying some ideas that I had to the firm's operations to achieve cost savings. This required me to work together with a number of others in the organization. From a minor role, I was able to collaborate with shipping, production and marketing to achieve reduced inventory levels by 10%.
As a research assistant with the Levanthal School, I upheld my post with the highest integrity. I dutifully gathered the facts, but I challenged the outcomes of my research as well, to ensure that I had left no stone unturned. I felt it was important that my report and analysis were not only unbiased, but accurate and sound. In finance, there is no room for equivocation on ethics -- you will always lose with unethical behavior and I stand by that credo in everything I do.
