How bad is deal volume at each firm? Grant Thornton has been running senior managers on 8-12 deals, managers on 6-9, and seniors on 3-4. I know this volume is unsustainable but I’m wondering how bad it is at other firms?

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I’m having trouble fathoming this. 8-12 deals??? How many of those are fully ramped at the same time?

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What we’re seeing here is that no other firm is doing this - we’re the only ones with this volume expectation.

Man, that’s brutal. Which office/region?

I’m a SM and I’ve never been on more than 3 deals at the same, with two of those primarily maintenance-related (SPA markup, refining NWC target, etc.). It’s usually just one fully ramped and maybe a second one winding down.

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It’s all over. Region doesn’t matter too much. I can see it everywhere on our staffing document. It is brutal and it’s impacting the output, as you might imagine.

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One must be a super human to pull it off. I'm an SM and have never run more than two fully ramped deals simultaneously. In addition to two active there usually would be be another one-three in a post report release mode (addressing follow ups, rolling forward analyses, reviewing SPA). If one SM is doing 12 deals, how many deals a partner is running same time, 24?

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You have to consider the market dynamics. I bet you EY2 are in a region with big PE deals where you can do one to two big deals, whereas with smaller mid-market PE, where GT competes, you are expected to be running 4-5 deals at least at a time in a normal scenario.

Normally only on one fully ramped deal at a time, sometimes two (and could have some ad hoc items for a third). I would say in any given week, 90% of people (seniors, managers, SMs) only work on one deal.

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This is true. I can confirm.

S1 at GT, on 4 full-speed deals currently. Two of the deals have another senior and no manager. Spread very thin. One deal winding down this week but picking up another after the 4th.

Go get more money and better resume at big 4 tbh

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