Passing your FAE’s is a huge milestone for a Chartered Accountant, and hopefully the first major link in a long chain of good career decisions. As you near completion of your training contract, you are then faced with your next major decision – where to next?
You would not be alone if you felt it was a daunting prospect! There are four major subsects of the market where you will find your first qualified role as a Chartered Accountant post-qualification. They are; Practice (progressing through promotion or moving to a practice that will offer you different exposure), SME, Shared Services centre, or PLC / group function.
Each offers you a wealth of learning experiences and skills to acquire, but each one can send you off in quite difference trajectories, so it is important to use what personal time you have for self-reflection and forward planning.
To help you with your decision, we have outlined some pro’s and key-identifiers of the three non-practice options;
SME
Shared Service Centres (SSc’s)
Irish PLC’s / Group Functions
For further information and true career advice contact us on 01 631 6065 and do visit our career page for just a flavour of our live vacancies.