Accenture Technology or Deloitte Audit ?
Hi,
I am currently hesitating about my future job as a graduate. I am in my last year in a master of Economics with a major in Finance. I currently have 2 job offers I can choose from but I don't know which one would have the best career opportunities ?
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Functional analyst at Accenture, department of Technology, Financial services.
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Auditor in financial services (or industry), at Deloitte.
anything but audit
Why ? I hear people say that it leads to good positions after a few years like a controller & it also keeps your career path open to switch to Financial advisory, transaction services in M&A if you ever want to leave auditing.
I don't have much knowledge about the career path of the job offer I received at Accenture...That's why I'm confused...
I don't know much about what you would be doing at Accenture but i started in audit and got out as soon as I could. The work is miserable and do you really want to be a controller? Controllers are constantly under pressure of month end close, budgets and dealing with the auditors and regulators. Transitioning to the M&A groups is certainly possible but you'll have to network hard and be highly rated in audit as many people in the firm will be trying to make that switch.
TLDR: DON'T GO INTO AUDIT
Whoever is telling you that you can switch into M&A like its nothing is either lying do you or just ripped the crack pipe.
Having worked at both firms, the clear choice is Accenture tech. Your project/career options are going to be much more broad than in audit anywhere. It'll be easier for you to network your way into projects you want to do in the consulting service line.
The service line I will be in is Technology though, which isn't really consulting but rather delivery. At least, that's what the manager told me when offering the contract. He told that consulting projects are short term (a few weeks/months), while the projects they do at Technology are long term (2 years for example). Besides, he told me that most people at the department I'll be working in have studied IT/informatics/computer engineering, but I don't have any coding experience as I have studied applied Economics with a major in Finance. I don't know whether I'll have a disadvantage over the other employees because of this (& have less chance to get promoted).
Finally, I don't have any clue what "delivery" actually means. I don't even know what they mean with being a "functional" analyst. That's apparently the work I'll be doing if I sign the contract. The manager told me that they do a lot of testing. So I'm not sure what kind of career path I'll have by doing this type of work.
delivery means you will be writing requirement specs for an IT project (after collecting those from your client) then designing from a high level the functional blocks that will need to be coded (reusing as much code that has already been written as possible....Accenture has lots of libraries pre-written for generic stuff that gets reused)...and then managing the programmer groups in a project management role.
This is essentially what an in house IT dev group would do...but for companies that don't want to hire those on as full time employees, they find it cheaper/easier to hire a consulting company to do it for them and then leave.
Which is better and why: Accenture Technology or Deloitte audit (Originally Posted: 02/06/2018)
I received 2 job offers as a graduate/junior and have no idea which one has better career opportunities ?
Functional analyst at Accenture, department of Technology, financial services.
Auditor in financial services (or industry) at Deloitte.
Hi juniorquestion1, the silence is deafening, sorry about that.... Any of the threads below helpful?
If we're lucky, the following users may have something to say: sunflower18 Victor-Frazao jbburf
Fingers crossed that one of those helps you.
Which one has better salary: Accenture Technology or Deloitte Audit ? (Originally Posted: 02/15/2018)
Which one has a better career path in terms of salary, opportunities, etc. ? I don't see what type of work people in Deloitte Technology would do when they decide to leave after a few years ?
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