I work in audit at a big 4 firm, but I’m not a very good auditor at least from the super technical side and am thus enjoying it less as I move up. What type of job should I go for? I still like the people interaction and I’m not a big fan of tax

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Corporate accounting, fund accounting, internal audit, maybe financial reporting?

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You can consider transfer pricing. Falls under tax sub service line, though.

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What part of the “technical side” are you not enjoying? If you enjoyed your law classes during university and enjoy looking at financials to find flaws, investigating financial records etc. you could consider insolvency, our firm has a lot of ex-auditors and a lot of the senior staff were in audit, they just didn’t enjoy it and moved into insolvency.

That being said, If compliance targets and hard deadlines turn you off then don’t go for insolvency. The work flow is generally relaxed (I work in a mid-tier firm) with flexibility. You only work with your “clients” when it’s a voluntary insolvency appointment, most of the time if it’s involuntary they never respond to you. You only go on-site at the start of an appointment and it’s to seize assets and financial records, see if there’s any staff that need to be terminated etc.

Take a modeling course online like wall street prep or CFI (i.e. like FP&A specialization of FMVA certification). Go into FP&A perhaps. Easier earlier than later in your career.

I went into real estate private equity accounting. It's not bad

Try compliance audit or performance audit

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