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Big 4 Accounting Firms vs Alternate Options

  • 03-06-2023 06:42PM
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    Jaffa3000
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    I’ve just finished university and applied to 3 of the big 4 (not EY because the deadline had passed) along with AIB, Zurich, BNY Mellon etc. For location reasons BNY Mellon or PWC would be my first choice. Does anyone have any info about how BNY Mellon (and the others) would compare to the big 4 (mainly PWC though) to start a career in?

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    Jim2007
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    You would probably get better answers over on the accountancy forum....

    But they are as different as chalk and cheese! On the one hand you are getting exposure to the world of public accounting and on the other hand your experience will be confined to the financial services sector. They all offer good prospects for a future but different type of career.

    The question is what do you want to do??? For instance if you want to be a public accountant, start your own practice or take over an existing one, then you 'd actually be better of looking at a second or third tier public practice as a training grounds as even the big 4 tends to provide very specialised experience.

    On the other hand if you want a career in financial services and by that I mean managing funds, constructing financial products and so on, then Ireland is probably not the place as Ireland tends to be the back office/settlements hub, with a small amount of actual investment or asset management being done there in relative terms.



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