In Risk Assurance and feel like I’ve been grinding the last 3.5 years nonstop. I don’t want to put in these hours anymore but want to stay within PwC. What roles should I consider? Do they really have any better work life balance?

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How bad are the hours in risk assurance?

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Is it enough work that your really doing for 50 hours or is it more just being available and online?

What internally facing roles are there? Marketing, talent, internal risk, ogc, chief of staff, etc

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The only good thing about risk assurance is that the hours are better than audit. If you aren't even getting WLB there, then get out now.

If you insist on staying at PwC, you're going to have to network hard because people don't really value risk assurance backgrounds outside of controls/compliance. Maybe you can push for CMAAS? Or like a performance improvement consulting type role? Not sure about WLB in those practices though.

Assuming you want to stay in a client facing role. I’ve seen people move to many other groups - cyber, CMAAS, FE, data and tech, etc. Don’t think WLB is going to be better in those groups, especially not now.

Are you open to internal roles?

DAT is terribly short staffed. We’re being forced to deal with unreasonable workloads because we’re losing people left and right and bonuses haven’t even been paid out yet. Is it that bad everywhere?

I’m also realizing I don’t want to stay in DAT anyways so I figure it’s best to get experience in something else sooner than later.

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