For Audit folks: Curious.
Would you rather take
1. Internal transfer to Accounting Advisory
2. Senior Internal Auditor at a tech company
For 2, your role is Operational audit with SOX support where needed + internal investigations where applicable.

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Accounting advisory cause I hate controls with a passion

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1: You'll deal with a lot of technical accounting and accounting change work, which are very crappy, but you'll also deal with transaction related things that may interest you. Personally I'd choose this.
2: I'd be HIGHLY skeptical of how much "operational" audits you'll actually do, just make sure it's not a trap into SOX work. IA is incredibly career limiting imo.

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Hi! What do you mean by transactional work? Like carve-out or IPO accounting support? Also thank you for the insight both :)

Also I’m curious, how can we pivot from accounting advisory to finance? Is it the transactional work that you are referring to?

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2. If you are in Advisory your future ultimately comes down to sales metrics.

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