Q: Big4 - Yearly salary increment

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Anyone has tips on how to handle working on multiple engagements at the same time? New senior this year struggling with following up on previous engagements as I'm already dead tired by the time I've done my hours for my current job. Genuinely need advice that is not 'just find a job lol' because I've tried and nobody is hiring for real.

there's only so many hours a day, if you need 8 hours for your current job, and several hours for meal/commute/shower, the only time left you have to take from is your sleep or weekends. it's the harsh truth but it's the reason why people start leaving the firm in droves once they're senior. the alternative is do less than 8 hours for your current job and squeeze in the follow up work at daytime. you'll have trouble meeting your current job deadlines though. the real solution is to hire more people and stop making them carry so many jobs at once but you won't see that happen in your lifetime.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

there's only so many hours a day, if you need 8 hours for your current job, and several hours for meal/commute/shower, the only time left you have to take from is your sleep or weekends. it's the harsh truth but it's the reason why people start leaving the firm in droves once they're senior. the alternative is do less than 8 hours for your current job and squeeze in the follow up work at daytime. you'll have trouble meeting your current job deadlines though. the real solution is to hire more people and stop making them carry so many jobs at once but you won't see that happen in your lifetime.

Why so negative?

Manage to exit big4 as S2 to private with a 20% increment! It’s possible guys!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Manage to exit big4 as S2 to private with a 20% increment! It’s possible guys!

Congratulations! In Dec 2023? Curious but what role is that? Accounting at a MNC? Any tips on how you got noticed?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Congratulations! In Dec 2023? Curious but what role is that? Accounting at a MNC? Any tips on how you got noticed?

Moved to internal audit. I tried applying accounting/finance related roles but offer wasn’t that great. But internal audit/risk management roles are offering way better!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Moved to internal audit. I tried applying accounting/finance related roles but offer wasn’t that great. But internal audit/risk management roles are offering way better!

Congrats! But what will future progression be like? Don’t really see any FCs or CFOs from internal audit

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Congrats! But what will future progression be like? Don’t really see any FCs or CFOs from internal audit

Not OP, but for banks and financial services companies, the progression can be pretty good as you climb up to Head of Risk, Audit, Compliance since it's awfully boring and not many people can stomach that as a career. I know someone who pivoted into cybersecurity but it took a lot of studying, and another became project manager for bank for implementations but that was before COVID and all the PM hype. For non-bank MNCs, progression is slower but you get great WLB and 10k-25k salary as HODs so it's not too bad. Though I can't stress enough that if you don't like internal controls testing and remembering rules and standards in external audit, you probably won't like IA.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Anyone has tips on how to handle working on multiple engagements at the same time? New senior this year struggling with following up on previous engagements as I'm already dead tired by the time I've done my hours for my current job. Genuinely need advice that is not 'just find a job lol' because I've tried and nobody is hiring for real.

just quit lol

Anyone like me can’t stand the new batch of A1s? Out of 10, 9 talk like they are the coolest kids in town, give the bochup attitude, everything anyhow do then expect senior to wipe their karchng. Attitude cui, technical skills cui, accounting knowledge cui, but can talk dragon talk tiger. Smh.

Can’t stand Gen Z As too