Company: KPMG
Date: 2018-06-06
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Plymouth Audit Graduate
Pros: Good career opportunities after graduation
Some people can make partner quickly in the right offices with a bit of luck
Great younger colleagues
Cons: High turnover. In particular lack of talent that has just qualified. This is partly due to poor staff morale in the lower grades and dependency on drugs to treat anxiety and stress caused by the job

Unlikable senior management: some senior managers and manipulative and will pretend to be on your side

Poor career progression in the Plymouth office

Culture of ghost ticking and lack of proper file review in order to meet deadlines. Have seen managers sign of items in the prior year file where the auditor simply agreed the accounting system to the accounting system! Beggars belief

More worried about upsetting the client then doing what is right (i.e siding with clients in grey areas). 

Senior management don't understand KAM well and GITCs. 

Lack of training over KAM. In fact KAM is written in a way to not be explicit in order to escape the FRC nailing them for when they perform audits incorretly

E-audit crashes quite a lot and is highly dependent on internet connections. Management frown on use of tethering but are unable to give sufficient resource to internet sticks

Overall not worth working there unless you have a chance at becoming partner