Deloitte Consulting Back Office vs Client Facing at Boutique

I have a return offer from Deloitte Consulting. It is essentially a revenue management role, assisting engagement partners in understanding their revenue positions, billings, etc. I found the job boring and the money isn't great, but I have a return offer.

Should I accept the offer for the Deloitte brand name and try to move into a true client facing consulting role after about a year? Or should I recruit for a better salary/more interesting role at a random boutique firm or do FPA in F500?

Should I go for $10k salary increase with (maybe) more interesting work at a random company or stick it out at Deloitte for a year for the brand name?

Thanks for the advice.

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how2consulting, sorry about the lack of response. Maybe one of these topics will help:

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  • Difference Between Middle Office Finance and Back Office Roles FO and BO? Thanks. Middle and Back Office Roles In another thread on this topic- user @iBankedUp ... Management Consultant, etc. Middle Office: Risk Analyst, Compliance Officer, etc. Back Office: IT&S, ... while in that same year, IB analysts were at 70 base with typical 40-60 bonuses Back Office Definiti
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  • Do back office people know they are back office? they are bankers. Investment Banking prestige back office ... So there's this group called Securities and Fund Services at Citi. From reading the website ... it sounds like ops to me. Would this be BO /MO? http://www. ...
  • RE: 7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Work In The Back Office center? They might be more useful than analysts at some places..." back office myth ... environment more than the potential to advance, then back office work might be for you." 7. The Work ... carefully at it (Especially now through the eyes of someone with real industry experience), I have to say ...
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