Summer Finance Intern Review

by Centrica

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.3/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Work within the Automation Centre for Excellence team to automate processes and flows for the wider finance team. We work with softwares such as PowerBI and PowerApps to take manual processes which can become quite time consuming and automate them t make them easier to utilise saving employees vital time.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Learnt many new skills such as communication skills, Software skills such as using MicroSoft PowerBI, PowerApps and PowerQuery


  • 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?
  • 5/5

  • 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?
  • I was given two projects to work on completely on my own. Was given a great amount of responsibility from the beginning, had to set up my own meetings with individuals to gain insight on my project and work with them.


  • 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?
  • I was always given assistance and support when needed. Whenever I have asked someone for help they have been more than happy to do this.


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

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

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Everyone is very friendly and open to helping you. The culture is great with plenty of clubs running throughout the company and great chances to get involved.


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

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 3/5

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

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

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I am enjoying my internship, however sometimes am left feeling complacent when waiting on people to reply to messages if its asking for next steps on the project or something else to do etc.


  • 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 Centrica
  • 5/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Centrica
  • Understand the company and the role that you are applying to. Learn the companies values and what they all stand for.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

Scotland

July 2021


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