Anyone ever seen a switch from tax to advisory internally? Recently started as a tax associate (4 months in) and am seeing this probably isn’t for me in the long term. Wondering if I’m better off trying to fight through all the red tape or start applying externally, with the last option trying to switch to audit and then from there try to switch to advisory

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Going to be tough going to advisory with 4 mos under your belt.

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Agreed. Hindsights 20/20. Made a switch of group/office in tax from intern to full time and thought that would spark some interest in it. Boy was I wrong

Your best odds are to stick with tax for a year and try to get hired at one of the other three in advisory. Internal transfers are extremely difficult

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You won’t get a transfer after 4 months. People are going to want you to demonstrate you can do your current job at a high level before they entertain switching you to advisory and that’s usually a conversation to start after 2+ years.

Can’t imagine other firms take many new hire transfers from a different LoS considering how little experience you have

You’re early enough in your career that you can make the switch I imagine to audit pretty easily unless you’re not doing well at your current job

Tax can feasibly get you into valuation. Everything else is going to be virtually impossible to do directly from core tax.

Why not go to audit ASAP and transfer to advisory right away when you hit senior? Tax or Audit, transfer’s likely not happening before senior.

Seems like probably the option I’d have to go with to stay in the company and get to advisory down the road. Weird position as I want to switch but don’t really have many audit contacts and have only been working 4 months so why should they feel as if they should accommodate me. Hopefully I’d be able to slide over before busy season to get that under my belt

I’m not sure about PwC, but I’ve never heard of an internal transfer so early in someone’s career. Also, before asking to switch to advisory really understand what you want to be doing. For example, if you get into FDD thinking it will be more “finance oriented” you’re not going to be happy long term, it’s still just accounting with a cooler sounding name.

I transferred from tax to advisory right before I got promoted to a senior.

financial reporting/analysis skills and consulting skills as I was doing tax planning/ consulting work. I do highly suggest not staying until senior year for internal transfer because it would be harder in my opinion as people would see you as tax person. Audit would be different, i’ve seen many many cases people jumping from audit to advisory in their senior, manager years

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