Debating between a role in transaction advisory at Big 4 vs back office accounting at a well known PE firm. Audit is not for me (not the hours or firm but work) so worried about the BO role - I have always wanted to work on deals but worried about the exit ops. Any advice is greatly appreciated, don’t have many friends in the industry and feel like the advice I have gotten has been extremely bias

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The BO job will still be accounting. Just because it’s a PE firm that doesn’t mean you will be doing a radically different than any other type of firm. Also, BO isn’t the bottom of the barrel at PE, VC, BB, so that’s something to consider. Personally I’d rather be in a revenue generating role in advisory than a cost center in BO accounting.

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But at the same time I enjoy being client facing in audit which is why I like Deal Advisory

I am going to FDD because I am in the same boat with you. FDD would expose you to more finance related roles even though it has lots of accounting stuff in the job itself.

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My goal when I started looking was ultimately a finance role though - my dream job/career goal is a CFO at a PE or Bank but obviously still very early in my career so anything could change! Worried about pigeon holing myself too much because not sure what I want to do

Do you have your cpa OP?

Yes

How much is the PE firm paying and what are its hours like? Big 4 transactions can be brutally unpredictable with long hours and really doesn’t pay that great for the effort involved (although exit opps can be good). On the other hand BO at a PE is pretty niche but if you like the work and don’t mind making a career out of it the pay is higher than most industries. Only problem is PE culture might mean longer hours in comparison to most industry exits

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