I have at least 3 years experience and 1 year experience in commercial. Now I working in a Public Listed Co as Accountant, job grade M1, assistant manager. I am also qualified MIA member and ACCA member. I manage 8 staff team in my finance department and involve in the various corporate activities such as acquisition decision making, and one of authorised person for sales invoice, purchase requisition, and payment, bursa announcement. I had enjoyed and learn a lot although my finance department is small compared to other listed company.

During the 6 months in commercial line, I feel want to switch back from commercial to practice is just because of I like the challenging environment in assurance line especially I want to exposure in the big 4 audit engagement and continue in the practice line as my long term career. if there is opportunity for me, I also would like to obtain practice license in future. This is the motive for me to move back to audit line. But my main constraint is my age, financial variability, commitments.

I am confusing now . According to HR, where I will be join as a associate, further more I need suffer a 40% pay cut, discounted my experience from 3 years to 1 year substantially and work as a associate until next July 2016 only can entitled for staff review. The pay cut is not my main concern but is totally unfair to me to be a associate for 1.5 years in PwC even I work hard. It made me no motivation for me and it make me hard to justify for my decision or joining PwC.

Actually I shouldn't be have any issue to hold a senior position in PwC and carry out any audit assignment even I being assign to lead a listed Co audit team. From my point of view, PwC recruited me for a entry level position is just waste of resource. A associate's responsibility and difficulty is much more lower than a senior position. I don't mind to work directly with a young manager or work independently, but what if I work with a team that lead by a young senior, which the senior normally only have 2 years of audit experiences.( From my understanding, a fresh graduate only need 2 years experiences in order to become a senior). My brother who work for 3 years in PwC, who told me the audit work in PwC is not much differences compared to other medium firm. There is no point to go backward to restart my career as associate.

Hereby, I would like to seek for the vulnerable career advice from you which can help to plan my career path.

This post has been edited by winkk87: May 5 2015, 03:01 PM

I feel like struck in the second line manager level right now and I would like to stay in practices and hope that if there is chances for me to own a practice? maybe.

yup. I got the job offer as associate, but I noticed that I will missed the current year promotion cycle if I join now. As HR said, this is highly unlikely to promote me to senior associate in coming July or Dec. Which means that only can wait until next July which I need to stay as associate level for more than one year.



This post has been edited by winkk87: May 5 2015, 05:29 PM