Boutique Valuation Firm or Big Four Financial Due Diligence?

Any thoughts in career, exit opportunities and etc.?
1 year of experience at assurance, ready to jump as soon as possible
Boutique valuation firm pays pretty well at 65k + 20-30% bonus
Big 4 FDD - what is the salary/bonus situation?

Thanks for the input

 

Your bonus at the boutique valuation firm will be 0-10% during your first year. And if you are a top performer will top out at 30% at the end of your analyst stint before you are promoted to associate.

You will be looking at ib hours your first year to set yourself up for a 30% bonus in your second year.

That being said, go val. for the training, as long as your boutique is not an accounting firm.

 

coughDon't do FDD, you'll pull your hair out in frustration before your first month is overcough

Currently: future neurologist, current psychotherapist Previously: investor relations (top consulting firm), M&A consulting (Big 4), M&A banking (MM)
 

I would definitely choose the boutique. Financial services audits are extremely repetitive, and what you learn will not be relevant to anything besides performing accounting work for financial services companies. If you were looking at a different industry for the audit position, it would be a toss up, but I think the boutique is the obvious choice from where you stand.

 
808:
I would definitely choose the boutique. Financial services audits are extremely repetitive, and what you learn will not be relevant to anything besides performing accounting work for financial services companies. If you were looking at a different industry for the audit position, it would be a toss up, but I think the boutique is the obvious choice from where you stand.

Not to steal the thread away but, I have heard before what you mention about financial services audit being repetitive and if you want to get into financial analyst positions to try to audit something like tech/energy/etc. However, I look at some job postings that specifically mention audit of banking/capital markets/asset management in the post. Why do you think this is?

 

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