KPMG Advisory is a great place to work! - Advisory Associate KPMG Employee Review

5.0
29 May 2008
Recommend
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Pros

You get paid well and it really helps to advance your career and job opportunities if you work for any of the Big 4 accounting firms. Starting out as a new hire associate you get 5 weeks of vacation a year which is more than most people get after 10 years with the same company. Health care benefits are really good with a variety of plans to choose from. I have never had time off requested denied. KPMG really understand worklife balance.

Cons

I think there may be more downsides if you are in Audit or Tax rather than advisory. Audit and Tax really seem to have long hard busy seasons sometimes working 80 hours a week. However, in advisory we normally have a busy season for only about a month where we work 50 hrs a week. Something else that could be a downside is that we are always at a client site. One week your commute might just be 15 minutes but another week you could be staffed on a different client and your commute is now an hour.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Great general benefits however not as good as it was when I first started at the firm 11 years ago. Firm used to provide better employee incentives but no longer provides. Employee experience all depends on who you report to and work with. Some have great experiences, while others are completely over-worked.

Cons

Let go during RIF. When I started with the firm back in 2015, RIF's didn't occur much but now has become the normal once a year at minimum at KPMG. You must be on top of you game now (high performance culture) otherwise can be let go at any moments notice. Unfortunately if you do amazing on your engagement work, doesn’t mean anything to leadership and can still be let go, especially at manager level and requires you to put many additional hours per week doing extra curricular (Business Proposals, Certifications, etc.).

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