Pros
- Great for entry level. As A2/A3, you are forced to take on responsibility higher than your rank due to shortage of staff. In return, you gained more exposure and skills than your peers. (No pain, no gain) You get to involve in audit of the entire financial statement sections, a fuller picture. The firm have a lot of training sessions to keep up the competence of its staffs. - I was lucky to be in a team that is very supportive of its team members. Team culture is excellent (provided you join the right team). The Company culture not so. - It's official working hours is 8:30 to 5:30, how cool is that!! If you are a workaholic who loves overloading work, long hours with fixed low pay and unclear objective performance bonus, this the Company to be in! - Rarely I heard my colleagues and I able to claim OT hours (capped at 40 hours). Normally, Our timesheet is also filled 8 hours per work day. Such a work-life balance that other audit firm should envy! - Since management value loyalty (no. of years work) more than cumulative performance, no incentive to overperform, just do mediocre and grind the years up the corporate ladder. - Among the unsolved mystery of life, you will find NexiaTS's KPI, performance assessment and calculation of performance bonus to be in it. Spooky.
Cons
- Your Client is always right. Your Boss is always right. Sorry sorry, I am always at the wrong. Also, Cleaning Auntie is always right. - If you are a new comer, you got to overcome the established oligarchs (ppl that stay in the firm for too long) that have favorable negotiation of manpower and projects. But if you stay long enough, you will join them to deny favorable resources to new joined managers. - Don't you love it that your performance (Nov - April 20X1) is only assessed 9 months later (Oct - Nov 20X1) , then the bonus is only paid out 12-15 months later (Mar & June 20X2). - Some audit procedures is unproductive, non-value adding checklist filling exercise that make staff lose focus on what is critical or important. Using too much resources chasing small details that is of little value to the audit process. - "We take this opportunity to thank you for your valuable contribution to the Company" is the only personal level appreciation that management will ever show (annually once)