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Skills
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Responsibilities
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Support & Guidance
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Culture
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Your Impressions
- 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 AESSEAL plc
- 7. Would you recommend AESSEAL plc to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to AESSEAL plc
Overview
I was part of the group team at the head office, working closely with the Group Financial Controller and the Group Accountant. My routine involved generating reports, compiling management accounts, assisting in the creation of month-end documents, converting subsidiary files to AES format, overseeing budget management, and handling various tasks to support the finance teams operations.
Skills
I have learnt a wide range of skills while at AES, my technical accounting ability has developed significantly and my Excel skills have come on leaps and bounds thanks to using it daily and undertaking training courses. Not only this but I have enhanced my business acumen through exposure to different types of tasks and from engaging in conversations with my colleagues about how businesses are run.
Responsibilities
As I was the first placement student within the finance team, it took some time to figure out where I would fit in and which tasks I could be given but once I was settled in, I began to receive a fair amount of responsibility. I was trusted with reporting the figures for one of our largest shareholders, creating reports for the Group Finance Director, preparing some of the month end documents and so on.
Support & Guidance
The support and guidance at AES was outstanding, everyone is very friendly and more than happy to help if you are ever stuck or have general questions about career advice etc. The quality of the advice/mentorship I received there is also excellent, the members of the finance team are very well educated and brilliant at explaining things.
Culture
AES has a very friendly and easy-going culture, the atmosphere in the office is always a happy one and it is a very welcoming environment. They have a stranger policy which essentially means if there is a task you have not come across before (i.e. a stranger) then you are highly encouraged to ask for help and your colleagues are always happy to take some time out to explain it to you.
Your Impressions
I thoroughly enjoyed my time at AES, being a placement student I was given different tasks to experience various aspects of accounting and what goes into being part of a finance team, so my day-to-day was always different. The colleagues are all very friendly and it is exciting to be given some responsibility and use the skills I developed at university in an actual business.
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Do not be nervous about joining AES, the people are very welcoming and extremely helpful so try to always ask questions and use the experience to your advantage.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Accounting
Yorkshire and Humberside
December 2023