Company: KPMG
Date: 2020-12-15
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Long hours short benefits
Pros: - ACA certification with good support
- Excellent client list although individual experience and departments may vary
- Collaborative work environment and the teams are generally nice
- Good team building activities and the department culture used to be excellent.
- Some career flexibility although this may change if the audit practice is separated.
- Early career access to business executive allows one to develop a good understanding of the sector/business you're in.
- Industry leading flexible working/maternity/paternity policies.
Cons: - Long hours
- Relatively low pay and benefits in the first 3 years and not much progressions afterwards either.
- The nature of audit work is mundane. Very rarely would individuals have a passion for it.
- If you do have a passion for audit and produce an excellent audit and find flaws - it is in fact you who has to solve the problem too or else risk losing the client!