Why does EY sell their “advisory services” as consulting?! I left a boutique consulting firm in SA with nice perks and great strategy projects to get into a “senior risk consultant/ advisory” role at EY UK, only to find out it’s glamorized risk models audit. Gutted to say the least.

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Why did you not do your diligence on the actual job lol. Yoy interviewed didnt you? But yes risk advisory is IT audit a lot of the time

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I did interview. I asked about project variety, and they sold it as more consulting on that aspect. Reflecting back I realize telling the partner on my Msc ambitions at the London school of economics and he said “You probably won’t need an Msc in economics here” that should’ve been a red flag 🙃. Cause why wouldn’t you in a “consulting” role?

Tbf, process mapping and improvement is basically the auditors walkthroughs with a different flavor. Implementing a new system/change is also just writing the process flow first

These are just common examples of other ‘management‘ advice

So you’re saying essentially it’s no different in their “management” advice as well? Is EY-P not different, i’d assume they’d do more strategy etc.,?

What did you do in your "nice boutique consulting" "strategy Projects"?

Operational risk strategy, Risk appetite, climate stress testing, and other BSM/Finace projects: LIBOR, IRBB, etc.,

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