What are some career opportunities that might be a fit for me if I am interested in combining my finance background with my interest in technology?

Every corporation has a finance branch, division or department. Apply to corporations that do R&D in your technology fields of interest. For example, if its Aerospace apply for a financial analyst position at Boeing and Lockheed Martin. If you don’t have an “in”, contact Human Resources. Good luck to you. See ya….Gary/wtf

It would be hard to tell you which companies without knowing what aspect of technology you are discussing. However, as to finding out who to talk to, one thing to keep in mind if you are still near your college campus is that many large companies send recruiters to campus, looking for potential new hires. You need to talk to the career counseling office or the equivalent to find out when these opportunities are coming up and then go to them and start networking.

Also, if you have found the company’s website then you can find specifc names of people working for the company in areas in which you are interested. You could contact those individuals and arrange a meeting.

So I’ve kinda been in your shoes… I graduated with a Economics degree, and immediately went into a financial analyst/banking job and didn’t really like pushing papers around.

To be frank, it’s not really as exciting as it sounds… =)

So I made a career change and obtained a second degree in CIS… much happier in this field as I’m more naturally technologically inclined. As it turns out I got pulled into a profitability/margin management role and have been able to take advantage of both skill sets for a time and have been able to leverage that into a consulting job for technology companies.

As far as career paths… you can either look at technology/IT jobs at finance companies… or finance/accounting jobs at technology companies. With this economy you might consider the latter over the former but I think it would ultimately depend on where your interests lay.

Personally, I have been at technology companies… so companies you might research are HP, Cisco, Lenovo, IBM – at the manufacturing level, Ingram, TechData – at the distribution level, and CDW, Insight, World Wide Technologies at the reseller level.

As far as finding the right person and contacts… you need to start networking via websites like LinkedIn, and your current network. A good book that covers that aspect of career management is called “Never Eat Alone” by Keith Ferrazzi…

Hope that helps… !