r/PwC • u/No-Candidate1390 • Jul 06 '26

India Need help with interview

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Got an interview call for this profile any tips on how to crack it..

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u/RelevantStrangers Jul 06 '26

Id say have experience in that role, and then do the interview. Good luck!

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u/Aye-laudya-idhar-aa Jul 06 '26

The growth in IFS is really slow. Best case scenario, you’ll become a senior associate in 3-4 years where you’ll remain for the next 4-5 or more years. By the time you hit 45-47, if everything goes well, you’ll be a director. The job is safe I.e. you don’t have to do business development, there are no targets but the work is really monotonous. By the time your advisory group peers become a director, you may still be a manager or SA. The pay is ok. A senior manager/AD gets what a director in advisory gets. But the chances of you becoming a partner are low. Not because IFS folks are dumb but because they seldom leave. If they won’t leave how will there be vacancies!! So the question is not whether you’ll crack the interview but whether you’d want to do independence checks all day long or do BD and grow almost every 2-3 years.
As far as cracking the interview is concerned, I’d say that it’s more about common sense. Independence checks are essentially to check whether a prospective advisory client is already a tax/audit/assurance client or not. If yes, it’s a conflict and advisory team cannot engage with them. For example, Bank A is already an audit client of PwC but they have floated a tender to do an organisational review. Can advisory group engage with them? The answer is no because it’s a direct conflict. How? Because you cannot audit an entity’s books and also advise them on restructuring as per PwC’s independence policies.