Company: KPMG
Date: 2021-02-17
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Audit Grad Scheme
Pros: - Good training
- Smart and friendly colleagues
- Great brand for CV
- Varied often high profile clients
-Quick learning curve
-Pre Covid - regular opportunities to stay in nice hotels and eat good food on away jobs, great parties and socials also. Lunch allowance was always nice.
Cons: -very little increase to pay rates over recent years and poor bonus
-lunch allowance removed as a result of COVID
-difficult to get internal moves out of audit and when you do you often have to return to audit.
-Drive to standardise audit procedures has led to audits often being repetitive and dull, and at times, unnecessarily complicated and time consuming on low risk areas
-Work life balance particularly at senior assistant and assistant manager levels
-In some teams there can be a culture of working long hours for little reason