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Advice needed - boyfriend has almost 3.5 years of finance experience at a bank. Interviewed for PwC valuation senior associate and now recruiter says they want to hire him at “experienced associate” because he has no valuation experience. Is this too big of a step backwards in career? Should he push back and see if it gets him anywhere? If he does accept Associate, is it reasonable to ask for written, definitive timeline (1 year?) for promo to Senior upon meeting standards? Help!
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Do you not have SMs at KPMG?
When I was at KPMG (last year), Senior Manager and Director were basically synonymous. Some service lines used Director (like tech consulting roles), and in other cases a more tenured Senior Manager would be given a title bump to Director to keep them around. On the schedules in my service line (Tax) it would say “Senior Manager/Director” next to all the SMs’ names.
In my old group at KPMG home grown people used SM and lateral transfers tended to use Director. But otherwise it was the same exact role.