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Major scandal at PwC in Norway: A former associate, who was harassed and abused by colleagues with no reactions from management, has made a public webpage with all details as a last resort.
In Norwegian with an English summary, but I understood it all with Google translate.
www.pwcsaken.no
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Pros and cons to CMAAS vs FDD?
What is SM1 salary at PwC?
Coach
Your reply sounds like you don't have a good manager and maybe some bad luck with the projects. If you're okay with being an industry accountant (no interest in fp&a or other internal finance functions) then it's fine to cut your losses. If you might be interested in fp&a you should stick it out a bit longer
Mentor
I wouldn’t completely agree all FP&A are glorified accounting - a lot them are and you need to do your diligence during interviews to find out. It’s also not uncommon for someone leaving public to use an accounting focus FP&A to transition into something more business oriented.
Coach
Can you explain more about why you hate it? Also are you with big 4 or a mm firm or a boutique
Coach
I’m at a big 4. I had 3 years of audit experience before this. I have a few reasons based on my limited experience:
1. The job feels like glorified data formatting
2. The analyses performed (QE, NWC, DDL) feel very “niche” that I question if they’re even useful to become experts on
3. Projects are so short/quick-moving that you don’t learn as much about the business as you’d think. A few weeks of excel analyses and a couple management meetings is simply not enough time to learn what makes a business tick.
4. Private equity clients and their lawyers are absolute nut jobs
5. I knew this job would be unpredictable hours, but no day ever feels like a middle ground. I’m either slammed balls to the wall or I have literally nothing to do. Not a single day of a reasonable 8 hour workload. 12+ hours or nothing. Either way, I feel like crap.
I want to get back into traditional accounting since a lot of what we do here deviates from GAAP. Also just done with public accounting and its culture.
Hopefully that helps.
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Subject Expert
Come to CLA. We’ll give you consistent 8-12 hours ;)
Mentor
I don’t think what you described is unusual at the junior levels of FDD. At its core this job is about about dissecting and understanding a business within very limited amount of time. QoE / NWC / DDL are just deliverables that memorizes our assessment of the business. It takes time and experience before you can do it efficiently and effectively , and before people can trust you to lead analysis you will be given random tasks that appear to be mostly formatting work.
Coach
And that’s fair, most junior level jobs in general are probably grunt work like this and I’m not expecting people to let me lead analyses right away. I’m just not sure I even care about these analyses. I got a fat pay raise coming here from audit that I practically could not turn down, and I don’t want to go back to audit either
If you’re trying to go to industry, then I would just give it a shot now.
Coach
How did they bait and switch you?
Coach
This post makes me wonder if accounting advisory like FAAS is a better option than FDD for auditors
There is 0 reason to go back to audit in my opinion lol paid less work more and path to partnership is like 20’years now
No better time to jump to industry. Just know that those steps in the ladder are more longtime coming than if you are patient, unless you find a really dynamic corporate culture/opportunity.