Bro, I feel you man.

I studied and dont understand at all what accounting really is and in form 6, I was a pure science student till UPU decided that I had to study accounting in a public uni.

Studied it, interned once at a huge GLC (where you had to consolidate accounts, do reconciliation, corporate tax and relief plus all that finance stuff on the side). Heck, I even saw Big 4 auditors cramped up in the room doing all sort of queries and test and they look as stressed as me. So, I know audit definitely not on my plate. I tried advisory and got in at one of the Big 4 and its mainly project management, so you dont learn the hard technical stuff aside from stakeholder management and endless meetings. Its cool to be in meetings, meeting bosses etc but there came a time I realised that I actually didnt learn much as all I know is surface level stuff.

Now, Im in the banking line but thankfully with rotations, at least i can have exposures in fields that are totally different from time to time.

My advice is to get your seniors to help you out and be useful. Also make a good lasting impression to your manager. Then after your promotion to senior, try finding alternative career that you want or at least can bear with for your actual progression. The natural place to go from an audit line is usually in advisory. Get to know people, join the firm's external public events, get in touch with people and you will actually go far.

All the best and if you learn slow, at least start early.

Globally, Deloitte is more prestigious especially when it comes to their management consulting, financial advisory service lines compared to the rest. Locally however, the firm is in a different level and the perception is that they are catching up with the other Big 4s (yes even against KPMG MY). Reputational wise the impact of the SRC case and the recent police raid only compounds Deloitte's public image.

However, in my opinion give it a few years and the firm can leverage their global leadership to leapfrog their competition locally, provided that they can consolidate and offer competitive and cross functional services through their APAC offices

Kindly disagree, there were PwC and EY advisory interns and associates from local public uni like UM, USM and even relative unknown local uni like UNIMAS in Sarawak

It doesnt have to be from the creme of the crop, but the majority is la, si you're correct on that point

My circle of friends in banking and finance. Some are public uni local graduates interned in advisory. While the majority is true, its not a given that local graduates cant make it there, only its harder.

People say i wont able to make it to a international banking MT program too, that you gotta be ivy leagues and oxbridge to make it there. If you search back my thread post history, I was formerly from advisory in a big 4 firm.

I dont deny that majority is from overseas, but the notion that its impossible to reach is like an absolute judgement while exception exists. Before you call me im the special one, i am not, there are a few others like me too also from local grads (both private and public, like Sunway, Monash, Nottingham etc).

Bonus: BCG, a MBB firm has a local admission track for local grads (business analyst role), a few of my connections made it there

I was with EY under performance Inprovement, based at banking client side and if not at level 17 at MM. What about you? If you want more info can pm me

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