Life as an auditor...

I have been searching deep inside my heart. What I wanted to be... You must be feeling funny... how come this girl at the age of 25, still doesn't know about her ambition. I have been an auditor for 3 years and 1 month. Since the 1st day at work, I have been learning. And till now, I have been promoted from a junior audit associate 2 till a senior audit associate 1. In between are another 2 levels. Every levels has different responsibility. When you are a junior associate 2, you are required to learn and follow. In everything you do, you must got an approval from your senior associate. When you come to junior associate 1, you are require to learn to teach your lower level junior, at the same time, act as assistant of your senior associate. When you reach to senior associate 2, you are required to lead an audit team, give instruction to the whole team, make sure that everything is on time and on track, reporting to your manager from time to time. And lastly, here comes to my current level- senior associate 1. On top of the responsibility of senior associate 2, you will handle most of the tough cases and mostly, handle those that has tight dateline. Manager will have more expectation on you and require you to think independently and making right decision.

This job trained someone to be a leader, with good planning skill. You know, you might just planned badly and at the end of day when you pull out from fieldwork (meaning come back to office after auditing at client place), you just realized that there are issues undetected and unsolved. So, being an auditor is like having a race with time. Especially during peak period – January to March, your time will fly fast without your aware. Assignment follows by assignments, dateline follows by datelines. When you have time to rest, you will realize that few months gone with just a blink of eye. This is the life of an auditor.

You must be thinking: wow… so geng 1… but actually, till today, I still feel that I am just blurring through… in mandarine, is “hun4 ri4 zhi3”. Yea.. day by day, thank God that with guidance of managers and colleagues, I had come to this point. Recently I am considering to change a job. When I write till now, feeling some sort of lost… I am in this line for 3 years. Changing job meaning I am going to leave all my mentors, who have been guiding me through. When my manager heard me mention of my thought of leaving, she ask me to stay on. Me too feel “bu she de”. This company is my school after my graduation from university, but now is a time I have to leave. Leaving this company will expose me to another environment and another culture. And most importantly, I will have more time to serve the Lord. This is what I think.