Why do you go to PricewaterhouseCoopers for auditing and Deloitte for consulting?

February 27, 219

In the ranking of the most prestigious accounting companies in 219 released by the authoritative job search website Vault in the United States, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and KPMG were widely expected and continued to be the TOP list.

Big Four is not only popular with rankings, but also with tens of thousands of job seekers every year. According to official data of PwC, the admission rate of full-time autumn recruitment in 216 was less than 5%. Deloitte received more than 5, resumes throughout the year, and KPMG received 27, resumes for intern recruitment alone. E&; Y will brush off two-thirds of the people at the resume.

So why are the Big Four so attractive to students? Let the senior audit manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers tell you the answer ~ Can you only wait for the autumn move to enter the Big Four? How to prepare ahead of time and win the four major Offer? Four major materials, stamp: the 219 update of Xueba Summary Edition of the four major accounting firms has been calculated by pinching fingers. By the end of this month, it has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers for five years. Compared with those who joined the job in those years, the attractiveness of the Big Four to graduates has been greatly reduced (Mr. Bu: in fact, it has not been reduced at all). At the beginning, the classmates who joined the business together have almost all changed careers (the next home is very good).

But no matter what the outside world thinks, I am very satisfied with my present job and I am in a good state. Looking at the experience of the past five years, I feel that I have gained a lot.

These experiences are not easy to see when I stood in the position five years ago, so I am glad that I stumbled into my favorite business. In order to avoid making graduates who are looking for a job feel like I did in the past, let me talk about what a newcomer can expect from this job:

Let yourself exercise a craft that can make a living

This is a sad statement, but for people who are conservative in nature, their work experience in the office can be recognized by the industry, and the challenging high-intensity work can really deepen their understanding of the profession. Together with a CPA certificate, it is a practical career choice. Moreover, this job does not require high talent, but values attitude and input. With the growth of age, experience can be said to be more and more valuable.

Jiro Ono's professionalism and Luo's so-called ingenuity, which have been cooking rice balls all his life, actually have a chance to be realized in this line.

Whether you are a professional or a craftsman, if you feel that you can't adapt to the industry where people eat faster than others, or disdain to participate in the increasingly 2B social competition that doesn't follow the routine, and you don't want to get rich overnight for nothing, you can consider studying hard for a few years in the four universities and actually accumulate your own capital. There is nothing to lose except getting less sleep.

Developing management ability quickly in the project system

The most commonly misunderstood part of auditing is that it is considered as a group of people who only deal with numbers all day. In fact, just ask any auditor at any level, and we will know that we are dealing with people at least half the time: customer finance department, customer management, children, site manager, project manager, senior project manager, project partner, independent reviewer, colleagues in tax department, colleagues in enterprise risk control department, company secretary administration ...

Every project is inevitably dealing with these roles. Especially in the middle layer of the third to sixth years, it is at the intersection of various channels, facing the pressure from all sides every day: you need to put down your normal work to deal with your customer finance, which is a nuisance who asks questions every day. I don't know what you are busy with all day, and I hope that the money you spend will be worth the money, or the children who dare to ask or dare not ask, and the project manager who keeps finding fault just to ensure the audit quality. Partners who are high above and always like to have some big problems ... Everyone's interests are different, their concerns are different, and with a variety of working methods ... the completion of any project can't be said to be a miracle.

this kind of network is no less than any kind of enterprise environment, but the difference is that every time a project is set up, it means to start these processes all over again.

So, you say that in a few years or even longer, you will experience the above roles from bottom to top, and you will face different people every time. Will your self-management, management of others, management of customers' expectations, management of project coordination and management of external resources improve?

Constant challenges and more interesting jobs

Every year to a year and a half, everyone in the firm will feel that they are in a less comfortable state at work. New tasks and new roles in the project team are constantly loaded on you, and the work content is rarely static.

In the first year, I just did a simple balance sheet course (I even worked as a professional banker for a while). In this process, I kept asking questions to understand the operating mechanism, audit procedures and testing purposes of the firm, the basic characteristics of the industry, and worked hard under a clear baton.

in the second year, we will start to study complex subjects, bring new people and consider the problem from the perspective of the person in charge at the scene.

after one or two more years, I will enter the position of being attacked on all sides and connecting the preceding with the following, and my working hours and responsibilities will increase sharply. At the same time, we will find that the good days of only caring about one customer at a time are gone forever, and we often have to move around several projects, so the use of time and energy becomes particularly important.

In the future, to work towards the audit manager, we should consider maintaining customer relations, striving for project resources, and coordinating the participation of partners and independent reviewers in the project.

At the manager level, the responsibility for audit quality falls on the shoulders. Basically, the manuscript is no longer made, but a large number of reviews are conducted, and customers (especially the CFO and senior management level) are compared, and audit fees and report disclosure are discussed. And began to participate in project bidding, daily affairs management of the firm and many other non-audit contents.

along the way, there is always something new to undertake. And after every painful struggle, it is a transformation. This kind of promotion like a monster upgrade makes the progress in the first few years of my career clear and concrete.

Pure happiness brought by work itself

This is the last thing I want to talk about, because not everyone can appreciate all kinds of happiness brought by auditing. Part of happiness comes from numbers.

I often feel like I am playing the role of a detective: according to the changes in related subjects, interviews with customers in different positions, and the open operating conditions of enterprises, I draw the story behind the figures. When there is a contradiction between stories, they have to be reinvented. Just like a game.

another part of happiness comes from the trust of customers. Being able to help customers straighten out their accounts, make suggestions on internal control, and most importantly, issue audit reports on time to meet or even exceed customers' expectations. That kind of smile from Party A is really the best reward. The whole team is happy in this process. Although it is hard, they have the same goal and take care of each other, which makes this job less difficult.