consultant

senior consultant

director

managing director

intern

FTI Consulting, Inc.

• Prepared annual and quarterly budgets, completed month-end financial closes, prepared operating reports with variance analysis and accounts reconciliations as appropriate
• Analyzed costs on a year-to-year basis relative to forecasting & budgeting activities through collection and assembly of financial data
• Analyzed monthly Selling, General & Administrative Expenses (SG&A) to maintain expenditure controls on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis
• Developed financial reports using TM1 for forecasting and budgeting results analysis
• Collaborated with Senior Managing Directors (SMD) on preparation of Corporate Finance budget and forecast
• Prepared financial revenue analysis on a monthly and quarterly basis
• Reviewed all engagements and letters of engagements to ensure proper arrangement codes and associated revenue recognition is set correctly as they are opened
• Assisted in preparation of analytical reports, aimed at improving inventory management and compliance with internal controls
• Engaged with SMDs on their matters to ensure adequate reserves are recorded and engagement risk is appropriately managed
• Maintained client inventory including engagement revenue recognition, write-offs, billings, collections and success fee review
• Prepared monthly memo and supporting reports for significant revenue activity and Top working capital investments
• Conducted detailed review of Client Management Report (CMR) each month end, to ensure revenue is recognized properly, arrangement codes are appropriately identified and reserves are in line with anticipated risks
• Supported internal, external Audit and SOX requests

Like most professional service organizations, working at FTI provides a challenging and rewarding experience. Compensation and benefits are great. The company made it through the pandemic without sacrificing its employees, and my job always felt secure. Steve Gunby is a great CEO and has a great report with employees. Office and practice managers stay in close communication with employees. The Dallas office has a good, friendly company culture.  It’s a family feel. 

However, work life balance can be challenging and the workloads can be demanding. There are times where you get a better balance, but often you will jump from assignment to assignment, deadline to deadline, to with tons on your plate and little time away from work. You have to be quick, efficient, and adaptable to keep up with changing priorities, competing needs, and limited resources.

You will learn a lot. You will gain strong excel, writing, and research skills. You will have the opportunity to build many diverse financial models, learn about different industries, and write persuasive reports. You get client interaction early in your career and lots of opportunities to try new things and challenge yourself. You are always solving new, complex problems and will be a big part of creating solutions with directors and managers.



•	Analyzed data export requests and wrote SQL scripts, utilized existing tools or wrote custom programs to prepared deliverable.
•	Used Teradata utilities fastload, multiload, to load data.
•	Rebuilding / Monitoring the indexes at regular intervals for better performance.
•	Created reports on Crystal Report and Ringtail.
•	Wrote custom SQL script or stored procedure for data manipulation and data extraction.
•	Analysis financial data of clients includes Pricing, Revenue etc. 
•	Installation and configuration of databases in clustered/non-clustered environments.
•	Built and maintained SQL scripts, indexes, and complex queries for data analysis.
•	Worked with SQL Queries using joins to facilitate the use of huge tables for processing several records in the database. 
•	Maintained documents and implemented Disaster Recovery models. 
•	Conducted performance monitoring, tuned T-SQL and database engines.
•	Recommended, design, deployed, tested and maintained database backup/restore policies, procedures and systems.
•	Created, revised, and maintained database schemas.
•	Import/Export data from and to Ringtail and performed manual Tiffing on files.
•	Export Encrypted files from Ringtail database and submit them for decryption.

Pay is market for specialized temporary assignments, there are also paid holidays if enough hours are accrued for hourly employees.  Direct management is pretty horrible.  Examples: 
 Manager doesn't speak directly to employees about a problem, but immediately emails a long elaborate email to higher ups, giving major dress down.  Once there is an email, an employee is automatically ignored if there was any positive interaction with the management previously.    
The snacks that have been proven unpopular are supplied because otherwise people "hoard" the others (granted it's nice that there are snacks but come on is that the way to pick them??)
Misleading employees about performance.
Condescending treatment.
Constantly watch over employees.  
Passive aggressive behavior, delaying respinding to requests from "disliked" employees
Hiring the nastiest people for administrators


The morale is pretty low.  People are here only  because no other better opportunity is available.

At FTI Consulting, I supported 2 business segments, Strategic Communications and Economic Consulting. The personalities in each segment were polar opposites. Strategic communications was more of a public relations mentality and the economic consulting folks were more focused on research. It was fun to work with both personality types.

The hardest part of this job was dividing my time between the two teams when both had very high priority items that needed immediate attention. I was able to navigate this utilizing a team of other executive assistants to make sure our managers had the appropriate coverage and that the work was completed on time.

The most enjoyably part of this job was honing my document creation and editing skills. I also loved doing the PowerPoint presentations. The folks that I supporting in Economic Consulting required heavy document creation and editing. Through this experience, I became an expert at Word and PowerPoint.

Love working with very smart, motivated and fun teammates on a global team. A culture of equal parts support and autonomy to create your own path, depending on how much you want to put into it.  Flexible schedule and remote work situations even before Covid 19. The amount of flexibility will depend on your team and /or engagement, but I'd say it’s more often the case than not. Compensation and benefits packages are excellent in this fast-growing company. The 401k match is the best I've had in my career. Some phenomenal company events for networking - my favorites being FTI WIN (Women's Initiative) and WINtern programs, holiday parties and corporate giving through matching gifts, paid volunteer time, pro-bono work. For all the above reasons, and more, it makes me proud to tell my acquaintances that I work at FTI Consulting.

Very unorganized company. I was found and hired by recruiter. Given no info as to what I was going into billing wise. They change policies daily. Want you to meet quota however, you can't because you stay on the phone all day long with payers to get the denial reason. Phone calls are 30 minutes to one hour! It is for specialty billing which most have never done and they trained us in.  Which also makes it hard to hit numbers. It's a mess and a half working for this place. The worst is unorganized and  way too many chiefs and not enough Indians. I will not be staying. Also, hired from an employment service which I had no idea of until after. Weekly pay on Wednesday's and cannot live on it, I'd much rather get paid biweekly and make more. Plus they don't allow overtime! Strict on a 40 hour work week and not one second over! I'd much rather work for a company that allows overtime and get paid biweekly. Would also enjoy it more if I didn't have to be on the phone all day long with insurance that is not for me. 

FTI Consulting is a place where you grow fast, think critically, and learn how real businesses operate under pressure. The firm attracts smart, driven people, and the collaborative culture makes even high-stakes projects feel manageable. You get meaningful responsibility early on, whether you’re analyzing financial statements, supporting disputes, or helping clients navigate complex investigations. The learning curve is steep in a good way—there’s constant exposure to new industries, senior leaders are accessible, and feedback is direct but supportive. The work can be intense at times, but the team-first mentality really stands out, and people genuinely look out for one another. FTI is especially strong for anyone interested in litigation consulting, restructuring, or analytics, offering both technical skill-building and a clear view into how companies make critical decisions. Overall, it’s a challenging, rewarding environment with real career development.


While this company requires a lot of time commitment that cuts into your work/life balance, the managing staff attempts to support you during this often high-stress environment. The potential for upward mobility is available, and rewards are fairly frequent. The co-workers are a great resource for the company moral, and help the environment tremendously.

During my tenure, I have learned about time and team management, budget analysis, eDiscovery review, using SalesForce and SharePoint for reports and task management. I have also honed my client-facing skills including preparing documentation and presentations. While these new skills lead to a promotion, I have also learned that the hardest part of my job is managing the day-to-day client expectations, that can often be overwhelming when dealing with attorneys and tight deadlines.

Your experience will depend on your team and practice. You may get assigned working exclusively on a huge long-term project almost full-time for perhaps years. This is not the norm but could happen. On the other hand, I've had the experience on working on variety of different engagements throughout the year both within my team and across different practices/segments. 

Additionally, depending on the structure of your team, you may have opportunities to manage and mentor early on, or your practice may be top heavy with few opportunities to manage projects. 

Overall, a great experience to learn over the first few years of your career, but opportunities to e.g., manage or pursue your own clients, may take a long time to materialize.

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