Is KPMG, EY and PWC considerate about one not wanting to travel and chosing local projects in the IT Assurance practice? Please share your experiences. Thanks!

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I realize you didn’t ask about Crowe, but Crowe is too small to support local staff with all local clients. So I would be interested in hearing about the big 4

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I'm in PA (and occasionally work IA jobs) and our travel tends to be because a client is headquartered locally, but has a location elsewhere that we have to go to for some reason or another. It would be rare to be staffed completely out of market if you're not in a national group

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KPMG has only given me travel opportunities to Orlando for mandatory training in the year I've been with them. I think they are considerate, though I specifically asked for travel opportunities lol

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As a first year I was on the same client all year that has varying engagements that require travel. I made it known that I don’t like to travel and my team has been incredibly accommodating by staffing me on the engagements that don’t travel and/or allowing me to dial in to walkthroughs while the rest of the team travelled. Really you won’t have any pull until after your first year though - you will need to be with the team to learn

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If you are in the practice referred to internally as PA-ICRS that practice is designed to serve local clients so often travel is less, especially compared to other firms whether deployment is handled nationally or regionally.

You should speak to the recruiter and hiring manager about your needs and see if there is a fit

You can definitely ask to be local, but just depends on what’s available. I am in the ICRS group and have had to travel quite a bit, I don’t mind the travel though

It’s been hit and miss. In my 4 years I’ve never travelled once, and made it clear I was not interested in travel (I’m single with a dog). However one of my peers with two young kids said they didn’t want travel, and it seems like he’s going somewhere every other week.

Thanks for all the responses.

I worked for Crowe for 2 years. A lot of travel due to most clients being small and in small cities. At EY, I worked in our financial services line for risk assurance and that has allowed me to be local for the last 3 years.

^ same experience as KPMG1

I traveled a lot as an associate, hated it, finally spoke up, for a while they said they’d try to work it out, said I’d quit, didn’t travel for years. Even when I’m on clients in different cities I speak up that I can only do a few days a week and just stack all my meetings those days. And I’ve known people who enjoy traveling every week for the perks - my experience anyway

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