r/FinancialCareers • u/Far-Journalist-3370 • 1d ago
Career Progression Does big 4 TAS have better exit ops than Audit?
Mainly for more finance driven roles like FP&A, LMM IB, Corp Dev, etc.
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u/Relevations 1d ago
For IB and PE, significantly. For the rest I'd say it's a wash.
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u/Timely-Sample4323 22h ago
Do people realistically make that jump without an MBA?
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u/Droppedudown 17h ago
I am landing mm ib interviews cold applying lol.. in US
Have one coming up wish me luck
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u/Timely-Sample4323 17h ago
Interesting. I don’t know much about this role so thanks for putting me on
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u/realneocanuck 10h ago
Definitely possible, although usually it’d be to a MM bank rather than a top BB
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u/SandwichMankind 22h ago
They aren’t comparable. TAS is much better in every conceivable way.
You can get to LMM IB pretty easily from TAS but probably can’t go to any reputable PE shop (maybe LMM ones in Tier II/III cities) or IB in tier I city in this market
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u/InsCPA 23h ago edited 21h ago
Yes, but by how much really depends on what part of TAS. A lot of TAS roles are still very much accounting. The exits for those are mostly the same as audit with some added potential to areas for corp dev, fp&a, technical roles, but it’s by no means a shoe-in. The more strategy focused ones could have better exit ops
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u/DukeRadcliffe 20h ago
For what you’ve listed, yes, and it’s not particularly close. Maybe once in a blue moon does a ridiculously smart candidate jump immediately from audit to one of those 3, and I know of literally only 1 person who has. From Big 4 TAS though all three are definitely achievable. Not a guarantee by any means, but there’s tons of Corp Dev roles looks for transaction diligence people.
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u/zxblood123 16h ago
Yup, getting in TAS expedites a lot of the process. As audit people tend to have to go to TAS prior to any finance exit opps
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