How to Pivot From Accountancy to Investment Banking

Investment banks, advisory firms love accountants. You're on the right track if you're a chartered accountant working for one of the Big Four or the equivalent of the Silver Circle, the Grant Thorntons and the BDOs of this world, because you have immersed yourself in businesses and in the nitty-gritty of working through the financials and the operations of businesses as well. So firstly, you're in a really, really good space, probably a Few different ways to navigate it. The first is you do your chartered accountancy and then within your Deloitte or your KPMG, you join the corporate finance advisory or due diligence arm of that particular organization. That's a really nice segue because you get to meet, you get to be working a lot on a lot of the same transactions as the investment banks.