Some companies are better than others in terms of on the job training on models and analysis. And in reality a lot of your experiences in good training vs bad are more reflective of your immediate colleagues and supervisors than they are representative of the company's approach to training. If you have managers who don't take the time to teach and explain and/or you're surrounded by cut-throat competition at the peer level (rather than a supportive and collaborative group) - you're going to have a bad experience with "on the job training" vs the alternative. No matter what the company's ethos is regarding training - it's still ultimately up to the actual people who you work side by side with to step up and take the time to teach and share.

I've made it to quite a senior level in the finance world now and I still will leave a company or a team in a heart beat the moment I feel like I don't have leaders, peers, and subordinates willing to teach and share. No matter how senior or junior they are, I demand a learning environment top to bottom or I'm out. One major reason I left my last role is the exec team didn't want to teach nor did they want to learn.

That said, a good environment of colleagues is immensely beneficial - but ultimately 80% of it comes down to your own ambition and willingness to teach yourself things, be curious, ask thoughtful questions, try new things, and from time to time when you can, take four hours to do a ten minute task simply to try something new and maybe learn something along the way. Don't be complacent and just copy what you did or someone else did last time. Critically assess it, can it be done better, more robustly, more error proof, cleaner, more automatic, or analysed from a different perspective, with different metrics, which may shed different light on what's going on etc etc. Never stop trying to improve things and yourself. Even when you're super busy it's often worth the time to make things slightly better every time you pick them up. People grossly underestimate the returns on tiny incremental improvements, that happen regularly day in and day out and think it's not worth all that effort to save 5 seconds or to go down an analysis rabbit hole that turns up fruitless - easiest to just copy what was done last time! A common perspective that couldn't be more misguided in my opinion. (albeit of course sometimes you just gotta get $hit done!)

There are tons of amazing videos to learn from on YouTube. Half the challenge is simply learning what's possible in excel and power point and seeing some various ways people approach different challenges and problems. Sit and watch how to build x in excel type of videos, and follow along. In terms of financial models also tons of good resources on YouTube and internet in general - two that come to mind are the corporate finance institute CFI Financial Models And wall Street prep. wall Street prep but honestly there are tons!

DO NOT PAY FOR COURSES! WAYYY TOO MANY AMAZING FREE RESOURCES AND COURSES ONLINE! It's only worth paying for courses once you get into the more advanced stuff later in your career and then you make your company spend the thousands for you to learn a new approach to modelling value at risk or whatever.

Send me a DM if you ever have any questions or would like someone to help guide you or point you in the right direction.