Audit Intern Review

by Grant Thornton

Rating

4.7/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • 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.
  • Real life office experience where you are involved in current tasks such as internal audit planning meetings, going on site to meet clients and performing audit tasks using audit software.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Yes, I learnt and developed many audit and general accounting skills as well as networking experience. Gave me more confidence overall in workplace endeavours


  • 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?
  • 5/5

  • 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?
  • Yes I was given specific audit sections in a large audit which was sent to the clients. I was involved in internal planning meetings with directors and partners and met clients in person on site


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • Some support. During a busy period so some other interns struggled for work. Personally I had plenty of guidance and help from coworkers


  • 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?
  • Very friendly and chatty. People were genuinely interested in me as a person and everyone got along. Partners directors were not hidden away and regularly talked to everyone and got involved in smaller tasks


  • 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 thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to working there after university


  • 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 Grant Thornton
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Grant Thornton to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Grant Thornton
  • Be yourself and try not to focus on being appearing corporate as that's not the culture at GT. Be outgoing and open to learning


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Accounting

Scotland

November 2022


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