Q: Big4 - Yearly salary increment

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hello everyone, I am extremely delighted to announce that I will be commencing my employment with one of the big 4 as an audit associate this coming July. Just wanted to know if there are any tips for people like me to climb the big 4 corporate ladder and any advise for fresh intakes that wishes to onboard the partner track?

Yup, you and 30+ other jhks.

Just bear in mind every time you sashay into Big 4 nice fancy lobby (except for blue) that u made the cut together wif grads of esteemed prestigious universities like MULTIMEDIA university, cyberjaya, SUNWAY university selangor, & TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN university Perak.

the day i returned my access card, saw a group of A1 auditor back from lunch

understand that now we want to wear comfortable for work cos of the long hours

but girls in audit wearing stripes, crop tops, ridiculously long fake eyelashes with ah lian like behvaviours

is no wonder that the auditors are seen as a joke by clients and finance ppl

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hello everyone, I am extremely delighted to announce that I will be commencing my employment with one of the big 4 as an audit associate this coming July. Just wanted to know if there are any tips for people like me to climb the big 4 corporate ladder and any advise for fresh intakes that wishes to onboard the partner track?

Tip is to experience peak once you come in.. If you are unlucky, you may be booked 2 jobs concurrently, sometimes if you are too too unlucky, your seniors may be by then leaving and you are gonna handle it alone depends on the size of the client. Hours wise, hope you are aware of it if not you are not gonna survive, let alone to partner track. All the best!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hello everyone, I am extremely delighted to announce that I will be commencing my employment with one of the big 4 as an audit associate this coming July. Just wanted to know if there are any tips for people like me to climb the big 4 corporate ladder and any advise for fresh intakes that wishes to onboard the partner track?

Attrition rate is very high, which means associate level has to handle more work > more hours spent to OT. Don’t think about partner track to early. Focus on handling the work first before moving on to senior level. The journey is NOT easy to be honest, especially with long working hours at the start, and no worklife balance

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hello everyone, I am extremely delighted to announce that I will be commencing my employment with one of the big 4 as an audit associate this coming July. Just wanted to know if there are any tips for people like me to climb the big 4 corporate ladder and any advise for fresh intakes that wishes to onboard the partner track?

feeling “delighted”.. don’t say this too early.. you should think about enjoying your last few days of holidays first before horror begins seriously.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

the day i returned my access card, saw a group of A1 auditor back from lunch

understand that now we want to wear comfortable for work cos of the long hours

but girls in audit wearing stripes, crop tops, ridiculously long fake eyelashes with ah lian like behvaviours

is no wonder that the auditors are seen as a joke by clients and finance ppl

Crop top to work is too much la. Full-on Gen Z retardism.

Anw these ah lian kind won't last long one. usually 1-2 yrs then quit go some slack commercial role or becum propety or insurance agent

is those not chio kind will stay n later becum dinobu SM

Thanks for the response guys! Just curious, how do one actually tell whether the senior/manager is on partner track? Get in good books in front of the partners? Ability to bring in clients?

There is no formal “partner track” in Singapore as far as I know.

If you mean the informal process of identifying peoples for partner admission, that doesn’t start until you clock several years as Senior Manager.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Attrition rate is very high, which means associate level has to handle more work > more hours spent to OT. Don’t think about partner track to early. Focus on handling the work first before moving on to senior level. The journey is NOT easy to be honest, especially with long working hours at the start, and no worklife balance

Are the long working hours mandatory if we don’t plan to make partner?

And how long exactly is long? 10 to 12?

Heard that blue has recently adjusted salaries.

Does anyone have the adjusted pay-scale for blue - both advisory and audit?