Specialist – Accounts Receivable (BEST Operations, IFS)

HireSetu's note

The ledger belongs to the firm

IFS means internal firm services, so this sits inside PwC's own finance function rather than with client engagements. Your day is the receivable cycle end to end: raise or correct invoices, apply incoming payments to the right account, work the ageing list, chase what is past due, raise credit notes when a billing dispute is genuine, and reconcile the sub-ledger before close.

The balances are owed to PwC by client organisations, but the chase runs through the engagement teams who own those relationships. Getting a partner or manager to act on a bill they would rather leave alone is half the skill. The posting title also carries AP, so expect the team to cover payables too, and expect the last week of each month to be the heaviest.

The track this puts you on

Shared services AR builds a portable record: collections, ageing and dunning, cash application, reconciliation, and whichever ERP the firm runs on. Two to three years leads to team lead or process lead roles in the same centre, or across into order-to-cash and credit control at other large companies. It is a transaction-heavy track, so a later move into FP&A or a controller path takes deliberate effort. Ask which ERP and collections tools the Gurugram team uses, since that decides how much of the work stays manual. Spend the rest of your preparation on the dull parts of the subject: ageing buckets, unapplied cash, and why a receipt parked in a suspense account holds up a close.

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