Requesting Input & Advice - 7 years of professional experience, 3 years at Deloitte A1/A2 and 1 year at Grant Thornton as a Senior Auditor. I have 2 Master's Degrees, an MBA specialized in Accounting and a MS in Data Analytics. My undergrad is in Accounting and I don't have my CPA

Audit is quite retroactive and I feel like I don't really help my clients improve. The hours don't help and I thought going from Deloitte to GT would help but it didn't. What can I pursue? Thinking of Consulting....

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Controller or Acctg Mgr in Industry: they would love you---your background and experience is stellar; & you are ready to leap.


We need more lilke you: industry is fast paced and always changing and wonderfully challenging (mostly personality-wise with all the characters you will interface with outside of accounting) and it taxes your brain and you'll get angry too,
BUT you will be helping a division or a company with hundreds or more employees stay afloat and keep their livelihoods.

You'll see everything. Insurance, Tax, month end, external audits, cash flow, AP, payroll, AR, Sales Revenue growth/ marketing, commissions, contracts, bids and proposals, 1-3-5 year strategic plans, fixed assets, fleet, capital expenditures, facilities/office/warehouses, systems conversions or upgrades, Mergers or Acq. even... after 2 years you can jump to a diff. industry; like agriculture, or tech or solar or chemicals or commodities or energy, or semi conductors or software or manufacturing or auto parts mfg, or defense contracting... that's the beauty a Controller Acctg Mgr can go anywhere in the world. It's all teh same once you get the confidence.

When you've learned everything you can (squeezed out all the knowledge at one place, including learning the ERP software) you move on, get a 10%+ bump in pay and end up at cfo..... $250-$400k

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This guy can’t figure out what he wants to do with 3 degrees… don’t think he’s CFO material

What are you passionate about? I personally would look for something in consulting using the Data Analytics degree.

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