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Advice urgently needed

  • 24-06-2014 04:10PM
    #1
    JayGatz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭


    Hi all,

    I'd really appreciate the advice or thoughts of people in this forum on this as I'm dithering a little myself.

    I'm currently in the consulting department of a Big 4 firm but I've long ago decided that, at my level, it's a little too "woolly" for my liking. This is by no means intended to disparage consulting, it's just that I want to develop "hard skills", particular in areas like financial management, so that I have a solid technical background. So I started looking into Chartered Accountancy.

    Now here's the core issue: I've been offered a position in Corporate Finance at another Big 4 firm. I'm obviously delighted about the offer, but I don't want to leave my current firm if I can avoid it. I tried to see about transferring to Audit previously but was told it would not be an option as they had overhired.

    However, I've been strongly warned against going into Big 4 Corporate Finance in Ireland by a family member who's in accountancy. She believes that Big 4 CF in Ireland will always play second-or-third string to big investment banks, given our proximity to London. From that perspective, she argues that I'd be better to hold out for an audit transfer, as it's a more "well-rounded" accountancy experience and I could always go into CF later.

    I don't really want to turn down the offer without something solid but at the same time the dream for a while has been to work internationally, maybe in the finance function of a multinational. I don't want to go down the CF route if it'll shoot me in the foot.

    My main interests are in learning about FP&A and how large companies make decisions like how and when to raise capital, make acquisitions etc. I also have an interest in management accounting.

    Any thoughts?


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