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KPMG IT Advisory Associate Looking for Love on ‘The Bachelor’

Posted on by Jason Bramwell

I don’t watch reality TV shows. They are dumb. They are contrived. They are overrated. I don’t get why so many people watch them. I would rather watch six hours straight of C-SPAN than watch a six-hour marathon of Say Yes to the Dress. If Caillou and Keeping Up with the Kardashians were the only two shows on TV, and I had to watch one, I would choose Caillou, and I hate Caillou.

While I was watching the NFL playoffs this weekend, I saw a commercial for the new season of The Bachelor, which premiers tonight on ABC. And I don’t care. I won’t be watching. But for those of you who will be watching, among the 30 bachelorettes trying to woo the heart of former San Diego Chargers tight end Colton Underwood is Onyeka Ehie, an IT advisory associate in KPMG’s Dallas office.

Here’s what we know about 24-year-old Onyeka:

According to her LinkedIn profile, Onyeka said she is a “highly ambicious (sp) IT Audit Associate with KPMG. I have a strong work ethic and experience working with clients. I graduated with my masters in accounting in May 2017 and joined a career in IT due to the innovative aspect and opportunity.” She has been an associate at KPMG since June 2017 and interned with the firm while she was in college.

Onyeka is a native of Manhattan, Kan., and received her degree in accounting from Kansas State University. Her parents are from Nigeria and have been married for 35 years. According to her bio on the show’s webpage, her parents got engaged after just two weeks, and Onyeka is “hoping to have that same kind of luck with Colton.”

Onyeka and my 9-year-old daughter have the same favorite snack: Cheez-Its. Her go-to pickup line is, “You look so familiar.”

She is a newly minted CPA:

Creeps send her private messages on Twitter:

And she likes to booze it up (which is cool with us):

Onyeka is the latest addition to the list of accountants who have been on reality TV shows. Who can forget EY associate Dylan Petitt’s sixth-place finish on season 10 of The Bachelorette? Or PwC auditor Steve Beguhn’s stint on season 10 of American Idol in 2011? Or PwCer Kate Hashimoto being featured on the TLC series Extreme Cheapskates because she dumpster-dives for all her food and doesn’t use toilet paper?

Klynveldians or fans of The Bachelor, keep us posted in the comments section on how Onyeka is doing. If she advances far into the competition, maybe we’ll do an update in the next month or so. Or maybe not.

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Can a KPMG Audit Intern Pull the Switch to Advisory?

Welcome to the tax-day-tease edition of Accounting Career Emergencies. In today’s edition, a young Brit has an audit internship with KPMG but would wants to pull The Switch and work in the advisory practice. Proposing a ménage à trois probably isn’t going to work so what’s the alternative?

Are you tired of being tired? Trying to build a celebrity client practice? Need some gift idea for your new overlords? Email us at advice@goingconcern.com and can recommend something other than a fondue set.

Back across the pond:

Dear GoingConcern Team,

Firstly I have really enjoyed reading your articles and as a budding/ aspiring accountant I was hoping you could help me. I got a internship offer for KPMG in audit which is great, but I think its likely I would feel more comfortable going into Advisory, probably Transactions and Restructuring branch of the Firm. Obviously I have to stick it out in audit for the internship, but is it possible to switch between service lines after, and probably location too?

I know that in the KPMG selection process I still need to go through the Partner Interview, so would you say I am potentially blowing my chances if I switch from Audit to Advisory, or should I play it safe, stick it out with Audit, and the ACA, and then transfer, assuming I passed and survived?

Thank you!

Dear Flip the Switch,

In the words of another, “Well, if I hear you correctly–and I think that I do–my advice to you is to finish your meal, pay your check, leave here, and never mention this to anyone again.”

Now maybe things are a little different in the UK but what you’re proposing is almost impossible to pull off and I’m not sure how you got in this situation in the first place. If the revelation that you’re more interested in advisory just came to you recently, that’s one thing. Your desire to pull a switch may be understandable but that doesn’t make it any more feasible. If, on the other hand, you accepted an audit internship with the knowledge that in reality you wanted an advisory internship, why didn’t you apply for an advisory internship?

On top of that you are also wanting to inquire about a moving to another office before you start full time? Let me see if I understand this correctly: you took an internship in a service area where you have no interest, in a location where you don’t want to live. Do you see why I’m confused? I’m not suggesting that you can’t ask but expect some side-eyed looks after you broach the subject. In other words, you could be “blowing your chances” because you sound like a person who doesn’t know what they want. These firms want people who are ready to hit the ground running, not someone who can’t seem to choose a path. If you can sit still for a year or three, then maybe you can start to inquire about a transfer of service line or location but as an intern-about-to-become-first-year, you’ll just sound like a lost puppy.