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[[male speaker] My job now, I'm in corporate FP&A, which is financial planning and analysis.]
[[female speaker] I'm lucky enough to work with the renewable wind program.]
[[male speaker] I am involved in pricing analysis, ]
[[narrator] But these young financial whizzes are more than just number crunchers.]
[I'm at the very top of the company,]
[looking at the total company financials across all the business.]
[I completely own a budget right now for the entire logistics portion ]
[of getting that turbine up and running.]
[I am involved in tax analysis and the controllership stuff.]
[[narrator] They're part of GE's Financial Management Program]
[which grooms recent college grads for GE leadership roles.]
[It's the perfect blend between college [FMP - Deepa - 3rd Rotation]]
[and your first job in the working environment.]
[You have four 6-month rotations that you do]
[to give you a little bit of exposure to four different businesses.]
[[male speaker] We have classes during our rotations,]
[and you are graded on that, so you also pick up all the technical knowledge]
[which you are required for the job.]
[You learn how to interact with different teams [FMP - Taylor - 2nd Rotation]]
[and different people from lots and lots of different backgrounds.]
[[♪♪] [narrator] FMPs, as they're called, get to develop their skills,]
[learn the business, and figure out where to go with their careers.]
[[male speaker] I'm a Singapore-based FMP,]
[so I did my first two rotations in Singapore,]
[and now I am here in the US.]
[[Taylor] You really get to reinvent yourself every few months and learn what works for you.]
[[Deepa] I like to think of it kind of like a consulting gig.]
[Every six months we come in, we see how the process works,]
[and we try to make our mark on it and find a way to improve it.]
[[narrator] They're rubbing elbows with top management.]
[[male speaker] Any assignment we go to, we have an assignment leader]
[who is like a GE leader, a CFO of some business,]
[so you work with them on a day-to-day basis.]
[[Taylor] Being able to work on a project that I know the next day is going to the CFO]
[or the CEO of the company, I never thought I'd have that type of responsibility]
[[narrator] They're interacting with colleagues and building a valuable]
[The FMP community is huge here. All are young people. [FMP - Ashish - 3rd Rotation]]
[You become very tight as a group, ]
[and you develop a really special bond.]
[[Deepa] It's a very good social network as well as a good network to build my skills]
[And I know the people that I'm hanging out with every day, 10-20 years from now,]
[will be CFOs of the business.]
[[♪♪] [narrator] So what does it take to be an FMP?]
[[Taylor] The FMP can be described as someone who is a well-rounded person,]
[who is smart, who can communicate well and get along with other people.]
[And a person that likes to see themselves make a change in the world.]
[You can't be a selfish player here. It just doesn't work.]
[[narrator] What does work is a willingness to learn,]
[to work hard, and to commit to the values that have made GE great.]
[I work in the world headquarters for Renewable Energy, ]
[and not very many people can say that.]
[It's important to me personally that I work for a company]
[that actually helps solve problems in the world.]
[It's a pretty neat feeling knowing that every day that I go to work]
