KPMG vs. Accenture
I am going to be graduating in May 2015, with a Business Analytics IT major. I have offers from KPMG & Accenture.
-Which company would you recommend for a new college graduate, and why?
-What are the downfalls for working at each company?
-What is the best part of working at each company?
-What would you say is the future of each company (positive vs. negative)?
Also as a note, i do not plan on going into accounting/audit/tax, I would preferably like to stay within technology consulting, even down the road. The pay that was offered at Accenture was better. I have also interned at KPMG, but it was not client side or even within their Advisory practice, it was internal work.
Any other advice and feedback on which firm i should go with will help me!
Thank you in advance.
Accenture is an IT consulting company. KPMG is generally not.
What? KPMG is a huge IT consulting company....
Accenture also has lots of none IT consulting
Rara123 first off, congratulations on your offers! If you can give us some additional detail on your offers (i.e. titles of roles, development programs, service lines, functional / industry alignment if there is one, etc.) it will substantially help us to give insightful advice as opposed to sweeping generalizations. Granted we will still be generalizing even with additional detail :)
Agree with 6pence. For us to provide insightful feedback would be helpful to know what group you maybe going into, title, functional alignment. Accenture from my understanding has now broken up its resources into Strategy, Operations, Digital and Technology. With Strategy folks being positioned as more of your pure management consulting activities. The rate cards and marketing for that particular group is very different. If your opportunity is within that group or Digital that maybe a better option that KPMG.
Agree with 6pence. For us to provide insightful feedback would be helpful to know what group you maybe going into, title, functional alignment. Accenture from my understanding has now broken up its resources into Strategy, Operations, Digital and Technology. With Strategy folks being positioned as more of your pure management consulting activities. The rate cards and marketing for that particular group is very different. If your opportunity is within that group or Digital that maybe a better option that KPMG.
This really depends on what you want to do in your future. If you want to become a specialist and always stay within IT centered roles, whether industry or consulting, then go with Accenture. Accenture is known for their IT and respected for it. very strong firm.
If you want to move out of IT in the future and go more towards management, strategy, business, even operations, i would definitely choose KPMG. You won't be shut of from the other segments, have the chance of switching to a different team outside of IT, and companies will recognize the name with you not only being IT focused.
I heard it is almost impossible to switch from IT to MC/SC in Accenture (or IBM for that fact), but thats just what i've been told.
The switch from IT or SC to MC is hard, and to get into Accenture Strategy its basically like interviewing again for a new job. You also need to get partner approval and quite a bit of red tape on that. This is why its very important to know what group your are going to, and what your long term career goals are.
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