KPMG Reviews in Shanghai, China Area

Pros

It is the foundatioin of your future career in the finance area, which offers you an opportunity to learn basic knowlege in financial analysis.

Cons

Lots of overtime. It's difficult to maintain work-life balance. Sometimes you have to work overtime without compensation. Anyway, the job is very challenging.

Advice to Senior Management

The management should pay more attention to the employee's life. Lots of staff complain about the flexible leave policy. We should deserve better.

Pros

Offers global opportunities for work; excellent performance review processes in developed countries; excellent training & technical support; great sense of community within the firm; excellent global leadership; firm's vision and goals continuously communicated down through the organisation.

Cons

KPMG China is yet to reach the global organisation's excellent standards in valuing employees, work / life balance etc.

Advice to Senior Management

Closer global collaboration on the "soft" issues, and review countries implementation, e.g. people management, recognition, performance reviews, non-discrimination (particularly, gender and race) etc

Pros

I like the dress code of KPMG, and among all the Big4 offices in Shanghai, KPMG locates the nearest to my home

Cons

KPMG hardly pay for the overtime working hours. the chargeable OT hours are less than 36 per month, while the real ot hours are over 100.

Advice to Senior Management

partners in KPMG China are still not localized, full of Hongkong guys who are not familiar with the culture of mainland China

Pros

Good reputation and trainings.
Clear career path and development.
Relative high pay than other jobs.
Good working place and colleagues.

Cons

Routine work and heavy work load.
No overtime pay.
The pay is not fair compared with the heavy workload and work overtime.

Advice to Senior Management

Talk to the employee more often to get real reflection of their feelings at work.
Try to solve the no OT problem.

Pros

Opportunity to access big clients to understand the leading practice in leading companies. To realized good companies operation and C&B.

Cons

too many travel + over time, the leading partner is not so smart and treat people unfair, only the people they have good personal relationship will be promoted

Advice to Senior Management

too many travel + over time, the leading partner is not so smart and treat people unfair, only the people they have good personal relationship will be promoted

Pros

There's always enough work to do. Lots of overtime and jobs away. This is both the pro and the con.

Cons

There's always enough work to do. Lots of overtime and jobs away. This is both the pro and the con. That is how I feel.

Advice to Senior Management

More over time pay and less administrative overheads. Have some removable bunk beds in the office so that we can sleep there in the busy season!

Pros

competent salary for recently grads
clear career path
clear pay structure
non-competitive work environment

Cons

Excessive working hours during peak season
random work assignment depending on luck
poor communication between management and low-level stuffs

Advice to Senior Management

Stop making poor lay-off choices
Concentrate more on business development than nonsense CSR programs

Pros

pay not bad, grow very fast, more girls than boys... anyway, i can't get a better job when I graduated from college

Cons

i just work to much, compared to the money i get, that's really unfair. somebody gets kicked out of of no reason, that's totally not based on performance

Advice to Senior Management

get people promoted based on their performance not on the relationship with managers and only on CPA qualification. pay more

Pros

Accumulate professional experience, including accounting, tax, etc.

Cons

The benefits decreased because of the economic crysis

Advice to Senior Management

Be more compatative with other Big 3

Pros

# Quality of training offered by KPMG
# Great team working attitude of KPMG
# Support of colleagues

Cons

The long hours can be a grind, and your relative enjoyment/pain will depend on the audit team you work with.
Auditing isn’t just about the numbers, but it is most of the time- which could be boring for some of you after a while.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to promote more entrepreneurial projects; compensate long working period by more innovative method; Make the team less top heavy