[jma679]

I just recently received an offer for a summer 2016 internship at KPMG in their business process group as a Finance & Accounting Intern. I know that the big 4 basically guarantee interns full time offers as long you do a half-decent job, but I am curious about what kind of offer I would (hopefully) receive since I would not be in the main audit, tax, or advisory service lines.

I would be working with and assisting financial analysts who do FP&A work for businesses in a non-client facing role. At the end of my internship, should I be expecting to be brought on full time given I do a good job since that’s what big 4 firms usually do? And would it be as a financial analyst? The reason I ask this is because there is not much information online on this kind of internship since it’s not with their main practices and is only paid $15/hr compared to $25+/hr for the audit/tax/advisory interns.

Anybody have any info or experience with this and what I can expect at the end of this specific internship? Is it true that they always bring on interns with the intent of hiring them full-time as opposed to just having an extra body push papers and do excel work?

Thanks for any help.

[PublicGuy]

I'm unfamiliar with that group, but what I can say is that big firms don't hire interns unless the ultimate goal is to hire them full time. It's really the industries proffered way of taking entry level people on.

My guess is that this would hold true for non standard roles as well.

[Anonymous]

You might want to edit your first post to put the specific area (Finance & Accounting) in the subject, as that may catch the eye of people who are in your specific division and get your targeted feedback. If 90% of internships are in audit or tax, and people in F&A assume this is another question about audit or tax, they might skip the thread and not even open it assuming it's yet another audit question they can't answer, so putting the specific division in the title of your thread might help you get more specific answers. Just a thought. My experience with public accounting is one year in a micro firm that did tax and bookkeeping and didn't have a single CPA on staff, so I can't really contribute beyond that. 🙂

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