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It's an interesting role. I had many years in client service before I transferred into PPD, but this is very different. I work with some exceptionally smart people and think about what we do in a very different light now. If I return to full-time client service, I will be a better auditor due to my exposures here. I highly recommend.
It has been a good spot for me, I've always been the person who thought I could have developed clearer guidance or forms or whatever so now I get to try. I guess a few perspectives I'd share:
1) Doing work at "firm scale" is a lot harder than you think. Something that was good enough for your audit workpapers or to communicate an idea to your team is probably no where near good enough to get scrutinized by tens of thousands of people and that is before you even add in all of the people with non-native English language skills
2) The politics (at least at my firm) are... we'll call them eye opening... There is always tension between the business and PPD and the people that gravitate to PPD are generally pretty opinionated. You'll get to peek behind the curtain a bit and you may or may not like that.
3) It likely isn't good for your career by default. You'll build connections and improve your skillsets in ways that can be good for your career, but it isn't something that makes you a shoe in for promotion or anything. You'll need to figure out how to capitalize on it.