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Any type of speciality tax. Examples: international, State and Local, Tax transformation/tax Technology, Mergers and Acquisitions. May have to be a general for a year or so. But a lot of the bigger firms are now letting you start in these areas. I was a general associate for 2 years and then moved to international. I am much happier. I make more more money than the federal (general) associates. And I have a better work life balance. I work hard don’t get my wrong but it’s more spread out and even.
I see - I think a lot of folks in Big 4 want to do the big restructurings and high profile deals, which is not great from a scheduling or WLB perspective. But if you’re working on middle market clients not under severe time pressure, I could see how that would be quite manageable and good for WLB.
Consider Indirect Tax. At least in a Big 4 environment, it tends to be more project-centric whereas International and Federal both tend to have heavier deadline-related burdens.
agree with you on the SUT side or SALT. WLB is great and pay is nothing to complain about since it’s still a specialty tax group
Another idea - if you can get deep knowledge of any one industry (hedge funds or law firms are great examples, but many industries will work) usually by doing the compliance for these types of firms for many years at a public accounting firm (or by beginning as a first year at either of these types of places in their tax departments), then you can try to find a manager/senior manager/director/controller job at these private firms themselves. On the whole they work way fewer hours than we do in public accounting, and can make way, way more money, depending on how large the organization is
Im one of this. Working as tax manager at the VC firm. Feel great after 5 year at PA.
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Following on this topic, which field of tax do you recommend at Big4 that has great and easy exit opportunities in industry later (I prefer tech industry)