Big 4 audit senior exit opportunity:
- CPA
- 2 years of experience on a public client as a senior
- lead senior for 2 small clients

What are some of the exit opportunities for my situation?

Also need some advice on if I should stay for 2 years to get the manager experience. I’m not sure if I want to be a manager, but also curious to know what would be the difference if I leave big 4 as a senior versus a manager.

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Same exit ops as every other audit senior.

Advice is always the same. If you can handle it and want to stay in accounting, get to manager before you leave PA. If you don't want to stay in accounting, leave as a senior.

You could also look into a transfer to accounting advisory if you like technical accounting. It's not my thing (find it incredibly boring) but it could work for you. Or if you meant technical skillset, there's plenty to learn out there with Tableau, SQL, Power BI...

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The benefit of leaving as a senior is that you're multiple times more likely to be able to pivot. If you want to switch to advisory or explore corporate finance / FP&A, that move is much easier as a senior.

If you know you like accounting and want to stay in it, leaving as a manager won't give you the flexibility mentioned above, but it will open more doors within accounting. Industry promotes slowly, and there are many who get stuck as senior accountants for a long time. Jumping straight in as a manager puts you ahead of that.

Also want to add - I know I’m more into the technical side. What path or additional technical skill set would make me more marketable?

If you want to get more into the technical side I'd either switch to advisory or wait until senior manager. You probably won't really get any interviews for these roles until manager. At senior manager level you will have dealt with more specific technical issues.

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