Company: EY
Date: 2017-12-03
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Tax Manager
Pros: -Multi-national presence which has its perks such as the possibility of doing rotations in other parts of the world
-Great client base due to being one of the Big4 accounting firms
-If you don't know how to do something, you can find someone within the firm who does so it provides awesome resources for absolutely anything
-Lots of young people to work with who are willing to give more than 100% to any project which allows for leveraging leg work down and also allows you to use your time to focus more on other important parts of the project
Cons: -Can get out of control in terms of hours you are required to work because the firm is driven on chargeable hours and one of the key factors they consider for pay is utilization which is the amount of hours you charge to clients which adds up to your time in the office (i.e. you can be in the office for more than 8hrs but real chargeable work could be just 5hrs so you need to spend a significant amount of hours working to hit your utilization goal set by the firm based on your rank)
-Cut-throat environment. It's all about getting the job done even if its at the expense of people 
-Fast paced and sometimes the pressure is so great with tight deadlines that there is no time to develop or teach people below you