Financial Controller Intern Review

by NBCUniversal

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.8/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • • Communicating with vendors to process payments and set them up for payment on our system. • Collaborated with internal teams to process invoices, set up payments, and maintain vendor relationships. • Updating trackers to aid with cash forecasting. • Monthly and quarterly journals and reconciliations. • Investigation of the trial balance and completing additional journals to ensure debits and credits are allocated to correct G/L’s. • Weekly and quarterly forecasting to see if we are adhering to budget. • Working with the audit team to provide them with necessary documentation needed. • Calculating royalties for various distributors,.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Excel SAP Smartsheet's Accounting Knowledge Financial Reporting Problem Solving Communication Presenting


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

  • 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
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes - Given Responsibility to personally look after the whole payment system and innovate and streamline processes within the organization - Given Responsibility to aid within the close procedures within the company tackling my own reconciliations and journals - Pushed to Work on things outside of my comfort zone and develop my skills - Complete Forecasting with the opportunity to work individually or with aid down to preference - Responsibility overall grows with experience in the role - towards the end of the role I completed all tasks individually, whereas at the start i recieved the necessary assistance


  • 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?
  • Support was given when necessary, managers give up time when needed despite busy schedules.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • 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?
  • NBCUniversal has a large Intern Cohort (Around 100). This brings a good culture similar to what you would find on your course at university with lots of social events organized by the early carriers team. The company also has a good culture and prioritizes development along with a healthy work life balance allowing interns to develop but not feel overwhelmed within their respective roles within the company


  • 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?
  • Enjoyed the role greatly, there is some of admin task which is expected, however i have been given responsibility to work on challenging tasks which has furthered my development.


  • 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 NBCUniversal
  • 2/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to NBCUniversal
  • Be yourself, Understand why you want to work here and the specific roles. Plan Scenarios where you have: -worked in a team -faced failure -Succeeded


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Accounting

London

May 2024


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