Finance Intern Review

Really had a good time at the company. All my colleagues were incredibly friendly and supportive, making me feel valued and part of the team. I was given good tasks to do, ranging from business as usual to a long term individual project. All the others finance interns were really nice and fun, which made the placement really enjoyable.

The team regularly provided me with feedback and tried to bind me in where it could. Everyone treated me as an equal and the team gave me many opportunities to step in for colleagues. At the end of the ten weeks I definitely felt like I was part of the team!

I was provided with both a line manager and an individual manager who was somewhat tasked with giving me things to do. This worked really well as I could turn to either manager for support and work. I had weekly 121s to gather feedback and set my targets of the next week(s). They really did their best fo make me feel supported and welcome!

The first two weeks were slow and I felt I was given little work. However, this was due to processes coming to a close. Starting the third week, I always had something to do and was never really bored. Since there is are a group project, a CSR challenge and an individual report, there is always something that you can work on, which is great.

Not so much at the start, but once I was able to get some work done the team increasingly gave me more responsibility. My lo project will have a long lasting impact on the team's work. Furthermore, I stepped in for colleagues when they were on annual leave and was given the responsibility of maintaining contact with their contacts during this time.

My managers asked me to give them an idea of my skills and development areas at the start of the internship. They gave me many opportunities to improve my skills. For example, the team asked me to present multiple times on various topics in an effort to help me become more comfortable doing this. Coming into the team, my excel skills were quite good already. However I was nevertheless able to acquire lots of new skills here too, which will definitely help me in the future. I was given a broad overview of all the bank's areas which is great too. The bank provided many opportunities for training too, such as the entrepreneurial development academy. There were excel training sessions (not specifically for interns) and sessions about banking.

The atmosphere was surprisingly good - not what I expected from banking at all. The office has an almost start up vibe too it and feels really collaborative. The team had a really good atmosphere too - we had a cake rota, table tennis tournaments, a finance-wide Olympics, and casual Fridays.

Quite good - we had an internship calendar given to us that clearly set out all the deadlines and dates. Most of the work we were given came directly from the team. However we had a team CSR challenge in week 8, which required a lot of organisation in the weeks leading up to it. We also had a buddy - someone currently on the grad scheme - who could help us out whenever we needed. The early careers team also organised mid internship and final events for all the interns which were really good fun. There were some slight communication issues though, but this didn't detract much from the overall experience.

Not much seeing as we were only here for 10 weeks. The grad scheme offers lots of development opportunities though.

Very good, direct progression onto the grad scheme is possible.

Yes there was - there were intern football sessions and usually met up for lunch. Many of the interns went on nights out too.

Good, though Edinburgh is a bit on the expensive side. Public transport is great though and food is cheap.

Great, lots of bars - also the festival in August is amazing!

There were regular talks, a weekly finance football game, table tennis tournaments, finance Olympics etc.. There is plenty to do!