Staff treatment - Audit Associate II Saffery Employee Review

1.0
Dec 16, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The people that you work with everyday being the juniors, seniors and managers are enjoyable to work with. They are accomodating and willing to teach you but there is increasing time pressure and it is become less personable.

Cons

The treatment from upper management to the staff is poor. In the last 2 years the pay bands have not increased despite other salary grades being increased. Recently paid overtime was announced to be contractually revoked along with the work from home allowance with no compensation in pay for this. There are also no answers as to how the work will change due to this. It appears that staff are expected to continue to work with less pay in return. The announcement was poorly communicated with the only communication being a 15min post where the first 8mins talk about black history month. Only after the backlash, was communication opened up and even then there has been very limited information provided.

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4.0
Apr 3, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- very friendly people - nice working atmosphere - management listens and acts on issues - opportunity for growth - flexible working hours - people worked there for 15/20/25 years

Cons

- more CPD trainings on qualified individuals

1.0
Apr 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The junior staff are nice

Cons

Very low pay, the bands havent moved in years. Lots of cost cutting measures being introduced, including making it really difficult to get paid for overtime but still expecting people to do the overtime and reducing the social budget. There's not enough desks for everyone in the office so on some days you have no choice but to wfh. No real benefits, pension contributions and annual leave are listed as benefits. IT infrastructure is very old and slow, crashing regularly and often IT will email everyone and make them log out of the software so they can reset it in the middle of the day! Lots of changes happening to reduce costs and lower level staff are being hit the worst. At first managers were scrambling to keep us informed but have given up with any communication at all as they have no idea whats going on! Huge changes are being posted in videos on the intranet from the board and the Managers are finding out the same time we are. There is no trust in the Managers from above and progression is much slower than at other firms, seniors are waiting years post qualification to be promoted to assistant manager. The culture is so negative and all trust has been broken, everyone complains and most people stay just to qualify and the people that do stay only stay because they cant find another job.

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