Commercial Analyst Summer Placement Review
by Centrica
Rating
-
Skills
4.8
-
Responsibilities
4.0
-
Support & Guidance
4.5
-
Culture
4.3
-
Your Impressions
5.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Centrica
- 7. Would you recommend Centrica to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Centrica
Overview
I Worked within British Gas Energy in the energy planning team on an analysis and improvement of a customer losses model. Used linear regression model in excel to improve accuracy of forecast of losses. Shadowed meetings in pricing, props and sales to understand how decisions get made within the team and weekly tracking of BGE performance. Organised charity events for Honeypot Children's Charity including Fun Run, charity stall and a company wide cook book.
Skills
Learnt how to use Excel comprehensively as analytical skills and have a greater understanding of statistics, modelling and types of forecasting. Much better understanding of energy market and I have improved my understanding of how an energy business runs. I also improved my presentation and professional communication skills.
Responsibilities
Yes I was given responsibility to improve the losses model and give suggestions back to the my team and the manager of Pricing, Props and Sales team on how they should forecast customer losses in their upcoming GFF3 plan
Support & Guidance
Yes I received a lot of support from people within my team (they answered all my silly questions to help me understand what the company does, the market and the model I was working on). I also received lots of support from recruitment as well as the grads on the analyst stream in understanding the wider company as well as further excel and power BI training.
Culture
Very good atmosphere. Lovely people all round which really helped me to develop further due to their willingness to support me throughout the placement
Your Impressions
I really enjoyed working here and have learnt so much which will help me going forward in my career
Yes
make sure you have a good understanding of sustainability and Centrica's part to play in the energy sector as well as their values and company aims
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
South East
August 2022
