Company: KPMG
Date: 2021-02-15
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Assistant Manager FS Tech
Pros: - Great name to have on the CV
- Community aspect to your team, you feel valued as a team member
- Great place to make friends and enjoy social engagements/meeting for drinks etc.
- Wide range of projects to get involved in
- Support/backing provided if you want to take on formal training/qualifications
- Lots of CSR opportunities
- Remote working options available
- Big client names
- Plenty of opportunities to get involved in internal work
Cons: - Work/life balance can be poor
- Realistically you are working 40+ hours every week
- You can be stuck on bad projects (particularly for the junior grades)
- Not enough senior positions are held by female or BAME representatives (progress is being made to address this)
- You can't expect to succeed/progress in this business by just doing project work. To be noticed/promoted you have to take on internal work (i.e. sales, thought leadership, proposition building etc.)
- Tough for junior grades to get involved in sales work
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