Does anyone happen to know the average weekly hours/WLB for B4 IA groups? I understand standard risk/IT audit WLB is less than ideal, but I’ve heard IA hours may not be too bad. Just wanted to see if anyone had any insight. Thank you!

Ex KPMG IA Senior here (just left recently, was there for 2.5 years). My WLB was fantastic - our projects were budget constrainted (like most B4 IA is), so I never worked above 40 hours regular/45 hours busy season (which was what I was scheduled for). Managers and directors made sure we never ate any hours, charged all of our billable time properly, and my coworkers/clients were good if not great. I had a great B4 IA experience, lemme know if you have any questions!

My experience at DT IA has really been good. I’ve worked 90% SOX and 10% SOC1 projects and while I’ll push up to 60 hr weeks 4-5 weeks a year when we’re close to deadlines that’s as bad as it gets. The rest of the time are 40-45 hr weeks with challenging but not overly stressful work.

My experience has been amazing so far. I’m in the GPS practice and I work 40 hour weeks and 45 during busy season which is only two months. My project leadership stresses WLB so I honestly can’t complain

depends on the engagement and access to resourcing… currently leading a SOX engagement in large city and working 50-55 during the testing round, 60-70 for about 2-4 weeks before deadlines. In between rounds nothing more than 40s. With the big push to offshore work, the onshore effort to manage is a lot. Still like my WLB more than while in external audit.