I wanted to ask people's opinion on this one specialist team that the Big Four all seem to have: Portfolio (lead) advisory/solutions, basically the guys who advise on the buying and selling of loan portfolios.
My situation is that I'm at a Big Four currently (so the role would be an internal move). I started off in audit but recently moved (technically a secondment) to an advisory/transactions department. Unfortunately I've been let down by this new role a bit by things that "weren't on the brochure" so to speak. Plus being in it now and looking at the more senior people above me (managers and senior managers) I'm not sure this is something I'd see myself doing in the longer term.
However then I ran into this portfolio advisory team and have spoken to some people there and what they do seems quite interesting.
But before I apply there, I would like to know whether anyone has any further knowledge of it, whether it's a good place to be and rise up the ranks or alternatively use it as a springboard to some other roles. (obviously I couldn't ask the people I spoke to there what kind of places people usually exited to)
Though this is a lesser consideration for me at this point, I have heard that apparently it's a very high fee generating group meaning that the salaries/bonuses there are above the Big Four norm. Can anyone comment on this aspect?
The one potential downside that crossed my mind was that this would be a very specialized role so I'm not sure if that might limit my options in the future if I were to decide to go down a slightly different career path. Any comments on that?
