Finance Analyst Review

by IBM

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Rating

3.8/5
  • Skills
    3.8
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    3.5
  • Culture
    4.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Working in a supporting role with Global Business Services UKI Finance Team, helping to consolidate a magnitude of figures whilst also performing useful analysis of these results. Preparing a variety of decks using multiple charts created either by yourself or from Revenue and Spend teams in UK, India and Slovakia for weekly, monthly and quarterly reviews with UKI GBS CFO, UKI GBS General Manager & to Europe GM and other members of IoT. Approving all Temporary Assignment Plan Requests, calculating monthly forecasts of the Odd Days Accrual and performing manual bookings to the ledger. Adhoc tasks for internal team and UKI GBS CFO


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Yes


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes - I felt as though my contributions were really adding real business value


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 3/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • There is a huge support network at IBM, from your immediate team to the foundation management.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 3/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • The company culture on the whole was good.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 2/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I enjoyed my placement - the exposure I got was invaluable and has put me in a great position to further my career


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 3/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at IBM
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend IBM to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to IBM
  • Try to understand what IBM actually does before applying. It's a huge company providing a variety of different services - Knowledge of these, I think, will put you in a good position when it comes to impressing the interviewers.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Banking

South East

June 2021


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