Life In Accounting - The Where Accountants Go Podcast

Sylvester ‘Sly’ Johnson, joined us for this week’s episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. Career Growth After receiving his Bachelor’s Degree from Notre Dame University, Sly went into public accounting as a staff auditor for Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), which gave him exposure to several industries.  He felt that the public accounting background would give him a good start to later transition into industry, which he did – but only after reaching the Senior Manager level with PwC. After several discussions about a few roles, PepsiCo offered Sly a corporate auditor role in Dallas on a two-to-three-year job rotation plan, which would allow him to learn more about other aspects of their industry. After this he accepted a finance manager role with the Food Systems, which eventually spun off and became Yum Brands. During this time, he became responsible for supply chain and he noticed that many of his peers had their MBAs and thus began pursuing his MBA as well. After completing his MBA