My firm don’t have.

Those who work till 8pm for peak are the rarest of all whereby the engagements accounts are not so complex and clients are super super co-operative. Don't manage to see people who are working on big clients can OT till 8pm only

Promotion to Big 4 Audit Senior
 

Hello! What are the criteria to be promoted in big 4 to be a senior? Is there any instances whereby an A2 not promoted to senior and got any stories to share if the A2 is not being promoted to senior?

Because people keep saying that promotion is 'guaranteed' till AM if you don't screw up but looks like not easy to be senior too as an A2 might not be competent in everything.

people who tell you promotion is guaranteed is the same kind of person who tell you no need to study for exam because the paper is very easy and bell curve will save you.

Yea, if you don’t study, bell curve will help your friend.

Yea... then got any instances or stories of why associates don't get promoted to senior in Big 4? Or what would cause you not being promoted to senior at big 4?

Promotion to senior is guaranteed. They are aware if they don’t promote you can just jump to other big 4.

Plus if you’re not from tunkul lanjiao university or multimedia bj university, means you have an edge over jhk who cannot speak proper english

can request for no promotion if you prefer to take orders from bosses

Actually if tunku lanjiao or multi media sunway jhk who cant speak proper english can do the same job as nus ntu smu BAcc degree holder, then isnt it laokui to be working in audit Big4?

study so hard A levels go to big 3 uni, in uni pray to bellcurve god and fight bellcurve, in the end come out on par with abdul ramhin uni

In my personal opinion, you didn’t study hard for A levels if you ended up here.

Consider it a price for not studying harder like your parents told you to when you were younger. Who ask you keep go chiong LAN shop?

BBC/C cannot count as studied hard lol

You talking about yourself? So oddly specific.

How to fast track to manager within 2 years of associate experience?

Unheard of in Singapore context.

sian but jhk keep putting down locals until locals like damn worthless. suay sia. Because the jhk dk anything then keep pressurising the local assoc until the local assoc go kisiao

I really dont know why these jhk and ceca like to schedule so many meetings one. You think I want to meet old people meh?

but surely u agree go SG big 3 uni much more difficult than some lanjiao sunway multimeda taylor uni right.

BAcc maybe a chao chao BBB/C can enter course now, but dun forget 10 yrs ago got many AAA/A or ABB/B oso kenna conned to do accountancy and go Big4 leh. in fact IGP for nus acc now is still ABB/B for bottom 25 percentile.

is really super laokui to be put on par w jhk.

Ya thats why I wonder why any true blooded sinkies from actual universities go big 4. So disgusting to downgrade yourself to a job that secondary school graduates from tunkul backstabbing uni can do. Might as well go work as food delivery. Atleast get more respect.

Having big 4 on your resume is no longer good, its a mark that you are on par with sunway ite college

For sure, if you're from a local uni and you're working with ****ing losers with the same level of work experience as you from these shithole universities like multimedia u, you should reflect deep and hard on your life choices.

bobian la because Big 4 legit biggest employer for accounting grads ma. If MAPs from MNCs, banks and F500 companies cannot get in then enter big 4 ah. Big 4 is still a decent brand name even though got lots of jhks and cecas as some of the companies require Big 4 for the role of finance managers, accountants. Unless we can change it lo which is damn difficult

Reflected but too late liao la. For most accounting grads, if cannot enter MAPs then enter Big 4 ma. If not, mid-tiers and small-tier audit firms but more jialat. Otherwise, industry is do AR and AP which don't have good career progression. I don't expect the audit industry to change la unless the new generation of partners willing to make the change which I don't see so la. Audit industry machiam SAF like that.

The regrettable part is once graduate from uni then need to accumulate 3yrs of working exp + taking exam papers in order to be CA (Singapore)

Now companies offering MAPs cut jobs so enter big 4 quite safe what

Meeting is for your bosses to scream at you one. Next time just request for all meetings to be recorded, see if they still wanna schedule so many anot

You how old? Why talking about 10 years ago?

If you don’t want to be lumped with those Uni you mentioned, you should study harder.

Now PSLE grading also like that, 45 to 64 marks is the same bracket. If you don’t want to be associated, study harder get 90 points and above.

Lol so many ppl here lack the maturity to think long term. The reason why one should stay in big 4 all the way is because big 4 values loyalty in the form of yearly high salary increment that you cant get it anywhere else (with the exception of consulting and investment banking, but lets not talk about thess roles because only the cream of the crop are cut out for it. In big 4 as long as you stay, defy the odds and outlast your weak minded peers (andrew tate mindset yo guys), you will be able to hit partner one day and this is when sky is the limit when comes to your compensation.

Outdated mindset.

Now is about instant gratification.

Lol what a retard, ofc they can give you high salary increment in your early years since they underpay you so severely.

Local go big 4 is a joke. Go try career at gov. Now ca sg also reduced to 3 papers only. Dont self pwn gp b4 downgrade yourself and make ur parent xia sway

If you want to get rich without working hard, good luck to you.

Dude, chill, no need to be so rude to call people retard. That’s just being an internet bully.

If you join the right team in consulting at a Big 4, such as Strategy&, Monitor Deloitte, EY-Parthenon, it is actually pretty good deal since they compete with McKinsey, BCG, Bain.

EY going to split liao. Who cares about it.'

And to say the B4 advisory arms compete with MBB is a total joke. We know you from B4 but don't need to csb until like that to make yourself feel better.

Dude B4 advisory is not even tier 3. Tier 2 would be Oliver Wyman, ATK, LEK etc. Tier 3 would be Roland Berger, Simon Kucher, OC&C.

Nobody cares. Few of us are interested in advisory, here is mostly audit people with some tax folks.

Nope. All same. B4 losers

You probably got rejected. So salty.

what a cesspool lol. Come here to find latest info on pay adj, get latest info on MY got what uni out there instead

Its the other way

Did you get rejected from B4? Yikes, what a loser.

You may say what you wish, but do be more educated to know that there is a distinction between strategy consulting and the generic advisory terminology you are throwing around. I have been referring to strategy consulting, not advisory. The strategy consulting teams of Big 4 do pay competitively to the MBB, go do better research before making your claims. And are solid tier 2s globally. Read up more, else you'd lose out on such opportunities.

Lol don’t bother explaining la, don’t think he’s a business or accounting grad in the first place.

All these associate still struggling to find a decent job.
Stuck in b4? Or cant even get any offer or better offer elsewhere.