Financing & Securitization Summer Analyst Review

by Citi

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Rating

4.7/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • In the office around 09.00, left around 19.30. Tasks included: Performing data scrubbing/stratification analysis of loan-by-loan tapes Creating PowerPoint presentations Networking with people across the team Attending HR events such as Desk Presentations


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Improved my Excel skills significantly, much more confident with a whole new arsenal of formulae that I am able to use in my everyday academic life but also for any future job/placement.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

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

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

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Given significant amounts of responsibility, getting to produce real PowerPoints used to convey Citi's speciality within Securitization which were presented to clients, working on loan-by-loan analysis on ongoing transactions etc.


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

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • A lot of guidance was given. The "Buddy" system was pretty good, I am still in touch with my "Buddy", and HR did an amazing job as well to ensure everyone had the best chance of success


  • 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?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Amazing culture. They look for what a successful Analyst looks like, rather than what knowledge they have coming in, which means that as long as you show progress and a willingness to learn (this is very key for Citi), then you stand a good chance. This is quite different than some other banks.


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

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

  • 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 enjoyed the Internship very much and I felt that Citi was the place for me to start my career. Many people at Citi started their careers there and never went anywhere else, having been there for 10+ years, and it's easy to see why!


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

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

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

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Citi
  • Your eagerness to learn and genuine interest in the business goes much, much further than whatever guides you read online about all these models you need to learn (in truth, many divisions don't do modelling at all!)


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

London

October 2022


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