PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and KPMG are among the most prestigious accounting companies in the 20 19 ranking published by the authoritative job search website Vault in the United States, and continue to rank first.
The Big Four not only ranks high, but also has tens of thousands of job seekers every year. According to official data of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the admission rate of full-time autumn recruitment in 20 16 was less than 5%, Deloitte received more than 500,000 resumes in the whole year, and KPMG received 27,000 resumes only for intern recruitment. e &； Y will brush off two-thirds of the people on your resume.
So why are the Big Four so attractive to students? Let the senior audit manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers tell you the answer ~ can we only wait until autumn to recruit into the top four? How to prepare in advance and win the four major Offer? Four major materials, sealed: the summary edition of the four major accounting firms Xueba 20 19 updated brush classic and face classic.
By the end of this month, I have been auditing at PricewaterhouseCoopers for five years. Compared with those who joined the job that year, the attraction of the Big Four to graduates has been greatly reduced (Mr. Bu: In fact, it has not been reduced at all). Almost all the students who joined the business together have changed careers (the next home is very good).
However, no matter what the outside world thinks, I am very satisfied with my present job and I am very nice. Looking at the experience of these five years, I feel that I have gained a lot.
These experiences are not easy for me to see in my position five years ago, so I am glad that I stumbled into my favorite industry. In order to avoid making graduates facing job hunting feel like I did, let me talk about what a newcomer can expect from this job:
Let yourself exercise a craft that can make a living.
It's a bit sad, but for people who are conservative in nature, their work experience in the firm can be recognized by the industry, and challenging high-intensity work can really deepen their understanding of the profession. Coupled with the certificate of certified public accountant, it is really a practical career choice. Moreover, this job does not require high talent, but values attitude and input. With the growth of age, experience can be said to be more and more valuable.
Luo fatty, who has been pinching rice balls all his life, has a chance to achieve his professionalism and so-called ingenuity in this industry.
Whether you are a professional or a craftsman, if you feel that you can't adapt to the industry that eats people faster than others, or disdain to participate in the 2B social competition that is becoming more and more unconventional, and you don't want to get rich overnight, you can consider the Big Four to study hard for a few years and actually accumulate your own capital. There is nothing to lose except sleeping less.
Quickly cultivate the management ability in the project system
The most misunderstood place of audit is that it is considered as a group of people who only deal with numbers all day. In fact, ask any auditor at any level, and you will know that we are dealing with people at least half the time: customer finance department, customer management, children, on-site person in charge, project manager, senior project manager, project partner, independent auditor, colleagues in the tax department, colleagues in the enterprise risk control department, and company secretary administration. ...
Every project inevitably has to deal with these roles. Especially in the middle of the third year to the sixth year, at the intersection of various channels, you face pressure from all sides every day: you need to put down your normal work to deal with your customer's finance, which is a nuisance who asks questions every day. I don't know what you are busy with all day. I hope the money you spend is worth it, or the children who dare to ask but dare not, and the project manager who keeps finding fault in order to ensure the audit quality. Being aloof, I always like partners who have some big problems ... Everyone has different interests, different concerns and different working methods ... The completion of any project can't be said to be a miracle.
This kind of network is no less than any enterprise environment. The difference is that every time the project is established, it means the repetition of these processes.
Then you said that in a few years or even longer, you will experience the above roles from the bottom up, and each time you face different people. Will your self-management, management of others, management of customer expectations, management of project coordination and management of external resources be improved?
Constant challenges, more interesting work.
Every year to a year and a half, everyone in the firm will feel uncomfortable at work. New tasks and roles in the project team are constantly loaded on you, and the work content is rarely static.
In the first year, I just took a simple balance sheet course (I even ran bank letters for a while). In this process, I kept asking questions to understand the operating mechanism, audit procedures and testing purposes of the firm, and the basic characteristics of the industry. And work hard under a clear baton.
In the second year, I began to study complex subjects, bring new people, and consider the problem from the perspective of the person in charge at the scene.
In another year or two, I will enter the position of being attacked on all sides and connecting the preceding with the following, and my working hours and responsibilities will increase dramatically. At the same time, we will find that the good days of only caring about one customer at a time are gone forever. We often have to run between several projects, so the use of time and energy becomes particularly important.
Looking forward to the future and working towards the audit manager, we should consider maintaining customer relations, striving for project resources, and coordinating the participation of partners and independent auditors in the project.
At the manager level, the responsibility of auditing quality falls on the shoulders. Basically, no more papers, but a lot of reviews, competing with customers (especially CFO and senior management), talking about audit fees and report disclosure. And began to participate in project bidding, daily affairs management of the firm and many other non-audit contents.
All the way up, there is always something new to undertake. And after every painful struggle, it is a transformation. This promotion, like a monster upgrade, made my progress in the first few years of my career clear and concrete.
The sheer joy of work itself.
This is the last thing I want to say, because not everyone can appreciate all kinds of fun that auditing can bring. Part of happiness comes from numbers.
I often feel that I am playing the role of a detective: according to the changes in related topics, interviews with customers in different positions, and the open operation of enterprises, I outline the story behind the numbers. When there is a contradiction between stories, it is necessary to reinvent the wheel. Just like a game.
Another part of happiness comes from the trust of customers. Can help customers straighten out accounts, make suggestions on internal control, and most importantly, issue audit reports on time to meet or even exceed customer expectations. Party A's smile is really the best reward. The whole team is happy in this process. Although hard, they have the same goal and take care of each other, which makes the job less difficult.