I'll give you my very personal opinion.It's a good qualification. If you have studied for some kind of silly, humanities-based or creative degree (you know like film studies, classics, history, political science etc), I reckon it will be a valuable addition to your curriculum. Note that in nearly no other country in the world other than the UK would you be offered a consulting role as a graduate with a degree in anything other than economics/business, engineering or at the most law.If you have already a certain academic background, though, some CIMA things will be slightly redundant but on the other hand it means you should be allowed to skip some modules or pass them very easily.This said, I haven't personally come across many job postings (for lack of a better term) that had CIMA as a mandatory requirement. It happens so much more with ACA, CFA and, heaven forbid, MBAs, the real emperor's clothes of higher business education.If you work for a big4 there's a chance they offered you to do it. During my tenure with one of them, it was mandatory if you wanted to align yourself with certain practices and teams that would do a lot of work with finance departments of companies.If you are planning to stay in an anglo-saxon reality for the rest of your life, it might really be a good idea to do it. It's hard to tell what kind of experience you get as a big4 graduate because there's so much randomness in it and you have so little control unless you are some kind of golden child. So it's good to know you can take away something that's universally recognised from your junior years in consulting.
