- FP&A: Usually sits at both the corporate and divisional levels. Tasked with budgetting, target setting, forecasting, long-range planning, reporting & analysis, revenue & opex management, decision support (analysis for projects being undertaken by the company or a division), divisional support (support marketing and product teams with analysis around the impact of potential changes being made to a product, marketing offers that the marketing team is looking at, etc.)
- Accounting: Usually sits at both the corporate and divisional levels. Tasked with putting together the financial statements (in accordance with GAAP, etc.) and other typical accounting type processes (journal entries, etc.).
- Tax: Usually sits at the corporate level. Tasked with managing tax structure, etc. (very boring but pretty straight forward)
- Investor Relations: Usually sits at the corporate level. Tasked with managing the earnings release process, talking to the press and shareholders, etc.
- Corporate Development (M&A): Usually sits at the corporate level. Tasked with identifying, evaluating, and negotiating acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, etc. across the company.
- Corporate Strategy: Usually sits at the corporate level. Tasked with developing the company's long term strategy and evaluating strategic issues across the company (effectively internal MBBconsultants)
- Internal Audit: Usually sits at the corporate level. Tasked with managing enterprise risk, controls & compliance, auditing processes across the company, etc.
- Treasury: Usually sits at the corporate level. Tasked with managing the firm's capital structure, dividend program (if they have one), cash management, collections (accounts receivable), foreign exchange hedging, short-term and long-term portfolio management (some do it in house in a trading room; some outsource to major BBs with some potentially an