Pros
-If you are highly utilized you will make decent money -Staff is young and generally has a fun time outside of work -Good exposure to financial due diligence (FDD) work
Cons
-If you are not highly billable, you can expect to make about half your compensation (salary and hourly model to comp.). Also the burden is on the employee instead of the firm. -The Business Advisory Services practice (BAS) is supposed to be the management consulting practice. There is no real consulting work and most BAS practitioners get staffed on transaction or financial advisory accounting /diligence work. The firm believes it does operational-type consulting but it doesn't. All of the practitioners with Top Tier or Big 4 strategy or operational consulting experience left. -Mangement / Leadership is not transparent -Firm spends a lot of money on lavish events instead of things like training or development -Subpar benefits -Unclear what the value proposition is except "we're cheap" -Quick to fire (no, I was not fired)...firm recently fired about 10% of its workforce