Nationwide Building Society Employee Reviews about "flexible working"

Anyone else hate banking lingo and make fun of it, but as soon as a discussion starts you say "we dont want to boil the ocean here". Fml. Whats your most despised finance phrase?

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I have always wanted to work for the big 4. Found the idea of working with different clients, travel and the learning experience to be exiting . Not sure if this is just in my head and the grass looks greener on the other side . I currently work in program mgmt at Apple and wanted to understand if anyone has made the switch from faang to consulting? Is the pay and lifestyle rewarding. Should I experience this life before I get older ?PwC EY Deloitte KPMG

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Is anyone here familiar with waterfall structures? I have a question

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What does the long-term career progression look like, both salary and title-wise, for someone looking to get into FP&A-type roles? Can you at some point land roles that involve financial/corporate strategy? One test away from getting the CPA and looking to get roles outside of standard corporate accounting.

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For the life of me, why doesn’t morgan Stanley or Goldman provide laptops? Unless I just missed the memo

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No matter how much the world tries to hold you back, always continue with the belief that what you want to achieve is possible. Believing you can become successful is the most important step in actually achieving it.

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I have a lateral-ish offer at Oliver Wyman FS Finance & Risk from a large international bank - trying to figure out if consulting is right for me. I’m coming from an internal consulting/strategy role and did risk work before that. I’d be coming in as an Associate III, not sure if that matches me or not. Any thoughts? (I am post PT MBA, if that helps.) what sort of comp should I be expecting?

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So what do folks really think of Internal Audit?

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How do you deal with a colleague (not same position but works synergistically with your role) making a huge error and then blaming everything on you saying you told them to do what they did. There is no proof I told them that (I didn’t anyways) and our exec believes me, but the colleague is now talking to our associates about the incident trying to turn them on me. They’re also 40 years my senior (in age not role as mentioned before we work together).

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