Work Hours in Big 4 IT Audit

You won't have the year-round hours that IB Analysts have, but you should expect your busy seasons to be pretty much 12-14 hours per day. You will work on saturdays during busy season and probably on Sunday most weeks.

Most of the firms have hours requirements for billing. They will send an email saying they expect XX number of hours billed to clients each week. This will usually be between 55 and 60. That means actual time spent working on client work. So lunches out, driving to and from client sites, admin work like actually logging your hours, don't count. Hence the longer work day.

Your first year you will get stuck on inventory for some year-end clients so your New Year's eve will be spent at a client site. Even though you will be IT Audit I have known them to stick those folks out at some warehouse to count stuff for the "experience". Lots of people think you need to experience the shittiest parts of the business before they consider you a "real" auditor.

I have heard in recent years that busy seasons aren't as well defined as they used to be and therefore you won't have as much time to slack after a big audit gets wrapped.

Hope that helps. Glad I'm out of there! Gives me the hives just thinking about those years.