[mrap]

Hi, I want some opinions and advice. I worked at Big 4 audit for 4 years, made it to Senior, at that point I was thinking of transferring to Financial advisory. As it was summer after the busy season, many were out of offices so I couldn’t agree and then came a good offer from an outside company. Unfortunately, 6 months in, and the job is a complete nightmare (the organization is very chaotic, the manager is a complete micromanaging psycho and I have been basically 90% of the time doing jobs that he has been delaying since April-17, the culture is not fit for me as everyone is older than me but behave like 5-year olds (all the time yelling, laughing, bragging, etc). Some couple of weeks I met by accident the Director of the advisory department at my old Big 4 firm, and he said a phrase “we should meet for lunch sometimes and talk about work”. And I’m actually thinking of giving him a call. Do You have any opinion on experiences of going the path of Big 4 audit -> corporate -> Big 4 consulting?

[Recked]

I can't really comment on that specific path, but overall this sounds like a great opportunity.
Any time someone wants to have lunch with you, they potentially want something from you/are interested in you.
It seems that you really have nothing to lose based on your current shit show of a job.

When you get your new job lined up, you should start drinking your coffee at your current job with this mug.

[rp 12]

I hear you my friend. It's kind of an adjustment when you go from consulting/professional services industry to a private/industry job.

PwC is hiring in Advisory services as well. EY is also hiring in their Risk Advisory practice as well (internal audit, risk and compliance).

It depends on what kind of Advisory services you're looking for. They've in FS, Human Capital, Healthcare, etc. If you've a certification and big4 in your resume, you're going to get some attention from any big4.

I hope this helps.

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[mrap]

Yeah, I understand that it takes adapting, and the job itself, while not ideal, is tolerable. It's the environment and all that (micromamaging, psychotic and chaotic meetings and discussions). The problem with the job might be that, let's say, that is not the job I was interviewing. They even changed the title after I started working just to fit for the “new” tasks.

Regarding the advisory part – Im from a smaller European country and advisory basically means the whole department, but the idea back then was to do 70% time M&A and due diligence as they needed a guy with strong audit background, rest of the time various service line projects (mostly forensic, fraud, outsourced internal audit as I had started to take the CIA exams).

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