Can y’all help me think through the pros/cons of leaving as a Big 4 audit manager into a controller position at a small but growing company vs moving into a finance manager role for a Fortune 500 company?

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Pros of smaller company - can have better work life balance, culture; hands on experience will prepare you for roles within that company or in similar sized company. Can have higher compensation to attract talent.

Pros of F500- basically the same as the smaller company. Could be better. Really depends on the actual choices in front of you. Go F500 if you want to work at a F500 for the rest of your working life

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Think it depends on what you’d prefer.

I left for a big company (global, plenty of interesting roles) but you take the risk that you’re stuck there for years getting silo’d. I didn’t want to go down the small company route because the finance teams are usually tiny and I think it would be more difficult to get an equivalent role in a big company.

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