Actuarial Intern Review

I have assisted on various pension related projects on work such as checking actuarial assumptions of audits and buy-in valuations, drafted slides for client presentations and carried out some business development research and collated this in a report format. Throughout the internship, all interns are involved with the Dragon's Den project where you are given a social enterprise to work with and you produce a plan for the future based on their needs.

Communication and teamwork are imperative in the workplace. I have improved my presenting skills and been exposed to premade complex spreadsheets for checking assumptions and pension liability.

Yes, there is a high level of trust put in you from the start as you are tasked with various pieces of work. Despite this, everyone is extremely approachable so any issues/queries you may have they are more than happy to help with. I have found this one of the best areas of the internship.

Everyone in the team - irrespective of their level - was always very keen to help. People within the office are very approachable and even people within the team based in other offices pr working from home were always more than happy to jump on a video call to explain something.

It's very clear PwC care about their employees from offering summer working hours where you can condense your working week to 4.5 days a week, to weekly gifts throughout the internship - pizza express and cafe nero vouchers!

I have thoroughly enjoyed my 4 weeks at PwC and should I be offered a job I would definitely be looking to return. The work has been interesting and very varied and the team and other interns are all very friendly and I have gotten along with them well. It is clear the company very much care about their employees and that they are passionate about their progression through the business and any professional qualification.

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Apply! If you get to an interview stage just be yourself and recruiters are only people after all and want to hire someone they would want to work with. If you are successful and get a place on the internship programme, ask as many questions as you can and try to get to know as many people as you can - different grades and lines of service as well as fellow interns.