Assistant accountant Review

by BMI Group

Rating

1.6/5
  • Skills
    2.5
  • Responsibilities
    1.0
  • Support & Guidance
    1.5
  • Culture
    1.0
  • Your Impressions
    1.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Helping compound bank statements to help the financial team make sure the accounts are in check, helping with payroll tasks and making sure all employees are paid each week/month. Lots of creating spreadsheets for upper management to understand what is happening in the finance department.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Highly developed my excell skills as well my presentation skills. My team communication also improved.

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

    • 2/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

    • 3/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 2/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • Yes, a fair amount of responsibility was placed on me from early in the placement.

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 1/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • Not too much alot of the time work was explained once and then I was expecting to get on with he work with minimal guidance.

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

    • 2/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 1/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • The culture was very work focused, you needed to be working at all times, if not it would be looked down on.

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 1/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 1/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 1/5
  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

    • 1/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • It was not enjoyable and quite stressful as a placement student.

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

    • 1/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 1/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at BMI Group

    • 3/5
  • 7. Would you recommend BMI Group to a friend?

    • No

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BMI Group

    • Make sure you are fully understanding of the workloads you will be given and see if you would be able to keep up.

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Accounting

West Midlands

October 2023