Corporate Assistant Review
by Forvis Mazars
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
4.0
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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 Forvis Mazars
- 7. Would you recommend Forvis Mazars to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Forvis Mazars
Overview
Completion of mainly excel based audit workpapers in line with the Mazars audit methodology across a wide variety of financial statement areas on the income statement and balance sheet. Focus on high quality audit testing to support audit opinions. Review of draft accounts in preparation for client use. Attend Internal and External meetings to support audit progress. Mixed working locations between company office, client site (Day/Week Long) and home working
Skills
Main skills developed include Teamworking - Audit is completed by an internal team you work directly with but also an external client team. Communication - Audit requires wide variety of communication types with individuals of varying levels of seniority both internally & externally. Professional Scepticism - A fundamental Audit Principal to think critically and carefully evaluate all areas of information before using it to support audit judgements and perform audit procedures. This skill is emphasised heavily by accountancy bodies.
Responsibilities
Yes I was given high levels of responsibility starting early on in my placement. I worked on 10 Audits and was individually responsible for delivering completed audit work across multiple financial statement areas on each audit. Responsibility involved regular interaction with Audit Partner & Senior Client Staff including CFOs, Finance VPs & Finance Heads. Largest responsibility was for auditing revenue amounts of £220M
Support & Guidance
High level of support and guidance was provided through Training, Central Development team, Early Careers Team, Mentoring, Buddy, People manger, Line manager & other ad-hoc support and guidance.
Culture
A good cohesive team atmosphere aligned with goals and purposes pushing individuals to be high performers and providing genuine guidance & support at all time.
Your Impressions
I thoroughly enjoyed my placement and will be returning after my graduation.
Yes
Please make sure you know the role, company & qualifications very well.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Audit
South West
November 2023
