Finance and Commercial Graduate Intern Review

• Responsible for Monthly Balance Sheet reviews, ensuring all balances are accurately reflected and evidenced in line with RIC guidance • Creation of a monthly reporting tool, tracking all the actuals and variances for over 60 sites • Leading a Real Estate wide team project to create and document a process workflow with detail guides • Responsible for the creation of an EPC database to ensure that SMO REM are aware of the current ratings, highlighting any current risks. • Creation and posting of monthly journals to ensure the accounts are accurately reflected • Liaison with third party suppliers and credit control to guarantee that payments are made timely and correctly.

Currently completing the CIMA qualification Many internal trainings, regarding both accountancy, finance and project topics Internal trainings regarding health and safety, etc. Improved my computer skills, particularly on excel. Learned how to use accountancy programs such as SAP and OneSRM Greatly improved my personal skills, especially communicating in both teams and with individuals as well as leading meetings and presenting ideas/work that I have completed. Also experienced other skills based trainings, provided by Siemens, such as how to stay productive, how to communicate efficiently, how to compose emails, etc

I have/ am being given a great deal of responsibility during my placement. Several pieces of work that I have been involved in have been crucial in keeping our team compliant. Many of my tasks are monthly reporting topics, which need to be completed to enable correct forecasting of figures. I also produced a team wide process guide, detailing all the steps that we go through, from the acquisition of a lease/site/building, all the way through to the disposal of the site. This and other process guides that I have created for monthly tasks, have been passed on to new memebers and given them an inisght in to how we work.

I have received a lot of support from various places during my internship so far. My placement manager has been extremely patient in showing me how to complete all of the tasks that I am required to do and is always available for help on both work and personal topics. Similarly the head of my placement team is always available to help. My line manager has also been excellent, helping with any queries but also being extremely supportive in any personal problems that I had. Kaplan have also been very helpful when it has come to my CIMA qualification.

Siemens have a fantastic culture and atmosphere. There are always many different initiatives being started and many different opportunities to get involved. There is regular communication from the leadership teams which I think helps include all members in the business. There are often many diversity initiatives going on, including recently Pride week with various talks and meetings that we could attend. There are also many volunteering opportunities to help the local communities around our sites. We have monthly, in-person team meetings which improves the social side of the team, often ending with a after-work dinner.

I have/am thoroughly enjoying my internship. The work has been difficult but excellent to learn and will definitely help my progress in my career. The teams I am apart of have been great support networks for both social and work related topics, which has ensured that I settled in quickly and felt comfortable. I think the internship has so far exceeded my expectations, particularly with the amount of responsibility they have entrustsed in me. I would definitely go back and will be looking for a permanent role within Siemens in the near future.

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The interview process I would suggest coming up with some key terms to help you through the questions, there is no problem with taking notes to the interview. For the assessment centre, make sure you are as social as you can be, trying to connect with everyone there. We had to undertake a presentation and I would definitely recommend practising the presentation with whoever you can beforehand. Make sure your interview answers are well structured but relevant.