Accounts Executive - Anonymous employee BDO Employee Review

3.0
1 Mar 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Large accounting firm experience but outside Big 4 - Great if on training programme as lots of support given and time off for college

Cons

- Referred to as a "resource" not made to feel like individual worth - Under resourced therefore holiday nearly impossible to take. Can't take time off at month end (first and last weeks of month) then also not possible during the rest of the month really due to payment runs and payroll

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Compensation is OK. There are some really nice people in the organization to work with, but you have to find them.

Cons

If you are not part of the SWC "club" (company name prior to them joining BDO), good luck. Poor leadership!!! Practice lead talks to everyone like they are talking to a CEO, not relatable in most cases. No clear employee development plans. You are held accountable for things completely outside of your individual control. They stress incorporating AI into work strategy, but have no plan on what that looks like or how to do it and want everyone to formulate it because leadership has no roadmap. One has no control over where you want to take your career, yet you are expected to know everything, about everything. As a result, you become an expert of nothing! Work assigned rarely leverages skills, almost as if they throw darts to see who works on what.

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