Thinking of Switching Big 4 Tax to Advisory? HELP!

Hi everyone,

I am a senior in undergrad and I have a full time offer from a big 4 accounting firm in tax, but I am thinking of switching to advisory because I want to end up in ibanking at a BB. Obviously, I will need to get a mba in the future to get into ib but as for now, my best option would be to get into big 4 advisory and from there into corporate finance department (this departments basically acts as a MM IB firm) they deal with small to medium M&A transactions and I believe this would be my best option for now. How would I go about doing this? I haven't accepted the tax offer yet, I just did a tax internship with them. How would I go about getting into advisory? should I accept the tax offer and wait a few years and then try to transfer or should call my recruiter now and ask if I can transfer to advisory department? what should I say If I call? Will this put me on the bad side of the recruiter? she might think I don't want the tax job and what if they rescind my tax offer? What should I do, what should I say?

Thank you for all your help!

 

You should call the recruiter and tell her you want to join audit. If you are trying to get into IB you will want exposure to the due dilligence groups within advisory (maybe valuation). I work at a big 4 in a major market and have never heard of someone switching from tax - they solely recruit from audit b/c those guys have the excel skills, the familiarity with G/L, requesting data from clients, building financials, etc.

 
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