Grant Thornton International Reviews

Pros

Big enough to get the clients it wants, small enough to react quickly to changing markets, easy access to local and national leadership

Cons

Limited size means your work is tied directly to what expertise the local partners had to sell. Less partners = less areas of focus. Choose carefully.

Advice to Senior Management

You will have to make up for how the business responded to the market slow down. Many great employees were let go unexpectedly after being told to expect otherwise. You lost a lot of trust and now they are the potential customers. How do you expect they to believe you again?

Pros

Much less demanding workload compared with the Big 4

Cons

"sharing the wealth" could be a bit better. When year over year profit improves by 25%, It'd be nice if at least 30% of that were re-distributed as compensation for a job well down.

Advice to Senior Management

Give more to employees

Pros

Many opportunities to learn, vast portfolio of clients, many well experienced individuals across many industries and wide variety of resources available.

Cons

Salaries arent exactly in line with the long hours and late nights but that is the way public account works isnt it?

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to have some more transparency, most times changes would go through the offices and we wouldn't know until it happened.

Pros

Great experience which affords employee the opportunity to quickly learn about numerous industries. Allows Associates who demonstrate competency the ability to take on senior roles within 2 years.

Cons

If you do excel at the associate level, you will be treated like a senior for all intents and purposes yet there is not chance to be promoted early to Senior Associate. It takes a lot of incentive out attempting to perform at a higher level than peers (i.e. putting in extra effort in the form of more hours worked, additional licenses received, etc.)

Advice to Senior Management

Compensation should be more aligned with work capabilities. The pay range for associates and senior associates is far to narrow when considering the difference in capabilities of top performers vs. lower rung employees.

Pros

Some good exposure (small & large clients)
Fairly flat structure (farily good level of exposure to high levels of management)

Cons

No proper career progression in the tax dept
Very uneven treatment of staff
Management inconsiderate about staffs' personal life and time

Pros

The firm was good about maintaining a solid training structure with all the resources necessary to succeed and advance through one's career.

Cons

Did not have enough audit associates.

Pros

The people are really great.

Cons

The hours required (on par for public accounting).

Advice to Senior Management

NA

Pros

Decent salary and benefits, opportunities to bring in new business since it's a relatively small firm

Cons

Sub-par performers, poor promotion criteria, below average management

Advice to Senior Management

Be consistent, be fair, reward strong performers not just based on billable hours

Pros

Flexibility is available in some circumstances.

Cons

Work/life balance is becoming skewed towards work and not life.

Pros

The name of Grant Thornton makes it very easy and very attarctive for client prospects. The resources available for learning are very good.

Cons

I don't like the way the firm is currently going. I feel before employees were treated as people and not as numbers.

Advice to Senior Management

I would advice to management to look back into their core values and consider what once made the firm different.