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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Likely open for a SME role. Coming in as senior manager is difficult because you are expected to be leading sales work and have a developed following of people to deliver the work. Hard to do that as a new hire. But as a specialist SME you come in and add value with your knowledge,  so easier to do straight away. [/quote]

OP here - what company is this? I think Deloitte has something called specialists - is this the equivalent of senior manager?[/quote]

Deloitte has a specialist track for SMEs, which align to the Senior Consultant/Manager/Senior Manager levels.

SMEs are for experts in a certain field (think, lots of PhDs or former high-level government officials with a fat rolodex of contacts and great reputation that allows them entry into the Agency they left). I have not seen an accountant as a SME. Most accountants go into the Advisory practice, which, from what I saw, was a very traditional consulting track without a SME track. The SMEs provide quality control/technical expertise on client engagements, and do the heavy lifting on proposal writing. On top of having to be billable.

At the Senior Manager SME level you're too expensive to be profitable, so you have to cobble together coverage across multiple projects who don't want to give you as much time as is required for the work you are expected to deliver, and lead way too junior people to do something that is over their heads. That is your day job. Your night and weekend job is an endless crushing treadmill of proposals.

Think minimum 60 hour work weeks, that go as high as 100 hours a week when lots of things are due at once. [/quote]

OP here, I am not an accountant.[/quote]

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