Nate Hodge

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I graduated SMC in 2016 as a double major in Mathematics and Economics. Much like Erika below, I interned at PwC in the transfer pricing group in Boston, MA prior to my senior year and was lucky enough to come back after graduating as a full-time associate. In the transfer pricing group, we assist our clients in planning and documenting their intercompany transactions (one entity paying a related entity for manufacturing services, for example) to ensure that they are acting in accordance with the U.S. Treasury, OECD, and other local or global regulations. This is a multi-step process that involves understanding of financial spreadsheets, in-depth research of our clients’ business segments and the industries they are a part of, as well as proper writing techniques.

While my job doesn’t directly utilize math, the quantitative and detail-oriented mindset I developed from my major in math helps me properly organize the multiple phases of the transfer pricing process and enhances my ability to effectively analyze the various functions of our clients and the companies we typically end up comparing their transactions against. The liberal arts education from SMC has also given me a wide repertoire of skills that allow me to shine in a variety of areas as a new associate, such as report drafting and summarizing outcomes from various meetings. All of these skills SMC helped me hone will continue to be of great importance to me as I (hopefully) move up in the firm and take on greater amounts of work and a more communicative role with clients.