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Today 03:32 PM
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Technical accounting function. Need some experience, dont see any entry role.
U can go commercial or stay in public accting firm.

I dont remember accounting mgr pay is better than auditors.
Audit 5k+ is s2/am level. After that u have to decide to stay or leave.
I hope b4 mgr, m1 is getting 7k now. If still in 6k range in 2024 is a joke.
Do u think u still learning meaningful things in audit
or u just there to clock the time.
OP here, thanks for replying.

I heard from my managers that M1 is around 7k now so it's not too bad, but looking at their hours and their scope of work, I'm very sure that it's not something I want to torture myself to work on. Plus, I feel like I'm not learning meaningful things in audit (same old procedures for the same old generic trading goods clients, no meaningful analysis to be done because deadlines and rubber stamping, just reconcile their messy workings to fill in the blanks in the latest audit workpapers) compared to when I was an associate. That's why I want to leave now that I have done one busy season as a senior.

How is technical accounting and how different is it in commercial vs public? It always sounds intimidating to me, since it feels as though you have to be some expert in IFRS17 or so.
Today 02:12 PM
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Technical accounting function. Need some experience, dont see any entry role.
U can go commercial or stay in public accting firm.

I dont remember accounting mgr pay is better than auditors.
Audit 5k+ is s2/am level. After that u have to decide to stay or leave.
I hope b4 mgr, m1 is getting 7k now. If still in 6k range in 2024 is a joke.
Do u think u still learning meaningful things in audit
or u just there to clock the time.
Not OP, m1 is around $7k.

Feels like the learning curve becomes stagnant after reaching s1.*
For the same job they can plot senior 1 to 3, means technically there’s not much difference in job scope across the senior rank.

For the transition from audit to commercial/advisory, is it still possible to maintain the same pay level at s2 or is there likely to be a pay cut ?

Yellow*
Today 02:04 PM
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Technical accounting function. Need some experience, dont see any entry role.
U can go commercial or stay in public accting firm.

I dont remember accounting mgr pay is better than auditors.
Audit 5k+ is s2/am level. After that u have to decide to stay or leave.
I hope b4 mgr, m1 is getting 7k now. If still in 6k range in 2024 is a joke.
Do u think u still learning meaningful things in audit
or u just there to clock the time.
M1 is 6.8k as of now.

We waiting July to see if will revise to 7k hopefully.
Today 01:56 PM
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What jobs are you guys doing? Accounting manager? Bank operations? Procurement exec (since you mentioned vendor)? Your hours and pay is basically my dream career goals, I don't care about having a condo so I don't need insane pay, I just want enough to afford a HDB and pay for my hobbies.

Genuinely want to know because I don't really have any friends or family doing this well to advise on these kind of things. Some even think audit 5k pay is peak career achievement which I frankly disagree.
Technical accounting function. Need some experience, dont see any entry role.
U can go commercial or stay in public accting firm.

I dont remember accounting mgr pay is better than auditors.
Audit 5k+ is s2/am level. After that u have to decide to stay or leave.
I hope b4 mgr, m1 is getting 7k now. If still in 6k range in 2024 is a joke.
Do u think u still learning meaningful things in audit
or u just there to clock the time.
Today 12:50 PM
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Hmm pays well and hours are both subjective.

I’m drawing 7.5k for a standard 9 to 6, but my days are damn lepak. After the morning 9am meeting, I get a breakfast coffee break from 10 to 1030, an extended lunch from 12 to 2, and an unofficial afternoon break from 4 to 4:30. Many days there’s nothing to do and I just wait for the clock to hit 6 lol. Day to day just review excel, PowerPoint and word documents. Call a few vendors and make sure things are going ok.
But many things are standard templates and form just need to check the numbers were updated from source correctly.

Once every two weeks I “work” from home but it’s basically do nothing and just watch / Netflix. But if people need help they will ping me and I will go help with my expertise.

Quite chill la, you will need some time to adjust getting used to it after slogging to 3am in audit peak haha.

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Same bro 100to120k pa. Wfh 5 days only go office for meeting if required. Flexible hours doing meaningful woek, objective focused.

Bad thing about the job? Entertain auditors and the 2pid request. Otherwise all are good and normal.

What jobs are you guys doing? Accounting manager? Bank operations? Procurement exec (since you mentioned vendor)? Your hours and pay is basically my dream career goals, I don't care about having a condo so I don't need insane pay, I just want enough to afford a HDB and pay for my hobbies.

Genuinely want to know because I don't really have any friends or family doing this well to advise on these kind of things. Some even think audit 5k pay is peak career achievement which I frankly disagree.
Today 11:17 AM
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Hmm pays well and hours are both subjective.

I’m drawing 7.5k for a standard 9 to 6, but my days are damn lepak. After the morning 9am meeting, I get a breakfast coffee break from 10 to 1030, an extended lunch from 12 to 2, and an unofficial afternoon break from 4 to 4:30. Many days there’s nothing to do and I just wait for the clock to hit 6 lol. Day to day just review excel, PowerPoint and word documents. Call a few vendors and make sure things are going ok.
But many things are standard templates and form just need to check the numbers were updated from source correctly.

Once every two weeks I “work” from home but it’s basically do nothing and just watch / Netflix. But if people need help they will ping me and I will go help with my expertise.

Quite chill la, you will need some time to adjust getting used to it after slogging to 3am in audit peak haha.
Same bro 100to120k pa. Wfh 5 days only go office for meeting if required. Flexible hours doing meaningful woek, objective focused.

Bad thing about the job? Entertain auditors and the 2pid request. Otherwise all are good and normal.
Today 11:02 AM
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What kind of job pays well and does not require long hours? 😂
Compliance ?
Hmm pays well and hours are both subjective.

I’m drawing 7.5k for a standard 9 to 6, but my days are damn lepak. After the morning 9am meeting, I get a breakfast coffee break from 10 to 1030, an extended lunch from 12 to 2, and an unofficial afternoon break from 4 to 4:30. Many days there’s nothing to do and I just wait for the clock to hit 6 lol. Day to day just review excel, PowerPoint and word documents. Call a few vendors and make sure things are going ok.
But many things are standard templates and form just need to check the numbers were updated from source correctly.

Once every two weeks I “work” from home but it’s basically do nothing and just watch / Netflix. But if people need help they will ping me and I will go help with my expertise.

Quite chill la, you will need some time to adjust getting used to it after slogging to 3am in audit peak haha.
Today 10:25 AM
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These have long hours hence the don't go into accounting
What kind of job pays well and does not require long hours? 😂
Compliance ?
Today 10:01 AM
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How about the standard accounting, group conso, FP&A roles??
These have long hours hence the don't go into accounting
Today 08:19 AM
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all these talk about don't go into accounting but for those of us who already grad a few years ago because we started before 2020, what jobs can we even take? every job also reject at screening stage, say no relevant experience
How about the standard accounting, group conso, FP&A roles??
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