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Hey Fishes - I’m trying to move back from US to the gulf. KSA, UAE, or Qatar. Interviewed with a smallish consulting company but they decided my profile was more senior for the role. Applying online didn’t get me good salary.
Any advice or anyone willing to refer me?
Background in human capital/leadership development. 15 years exp. Arabic speaker. Targeting SM in consulting or in-house.
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I think this all depends on what you want to do 5 years later. Do you see yourself in a more M&A role or would you rather do the FP&A route? Industry is known to be slower on career growth with a bigger salary bump. If what they are offering you is lower than TAS, then that does not sound very attractive.
Doing TAS will give you better exposure to a more broad client base and view into interesting cases. Doing FP&A may give you more reasonable hours during certain pockets of the year. If I were you I would need a much bigger salary bump to jump into industry.
For a personal perspective, I have moved to industry from a KPMG manager position and had a 40% increase in base salary alone.
Hey guys, I was a manager within the valuations group and exited to become a senior manager in corporate development. Do note that this is a very unusual case. These corp dev roles are notoriously difficult to break into for non-IB or PE background.
But I was pretty determined to go this route and it did take me a while to land this role. I have a lot of colleagues who went into FP&A and managing portfolio valuations for large PE funds.
FP&A sounds like where your heart is and it’s a great exit opp, but I’m not sure the money is there in this case? I left at manager for FP&A and got a 35% bump over my manager comp. I’d say go get the TAS notch on your belt for a year or two, hit manager, then bail for something awesome. Getting those titles / experience before you jump seems best for your long run.
There are many parts of a transactions process, diligence (FDD) being one of them. A client may want legal diligence (think monsanto merger), tax guys, analytics people, strategy people (e.g. parthenon), integrations people, divestiture people, etc.