Mid Office Advisor Review

by Randstad

Rating

4.5/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • My role is to handle invoicing queries for the support we provide. This involves scouring the query sheet and seeing why the invoices have been rejected by the funding body. Finding out what the reason and then resolving said invoice/invoices and getting them paid.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Understanding how finance works and how to leverage debt. Better excel skills to make my work for efficient and less strenuous on my wrists. Communication as I need to get into contact with different stakeholders to resolves queries.


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • I was given a good amount of responsibility when it comes to handling invoices. The company understands my role is to interject when necessary to resolve invoices and to prevent invoices affecting the profit margins. Additionally, my manager checks in often to see how I am doing and has been a great help in getting comfortable and resolving invoices where the solution is quite uncommon.


  • 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?
  • I was given a large amount of support and guidance. Everyone I worked with was very helpful and understanding.


  • 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?
  • Friendly - Understanding - Patient - Kind Anything within that semantic field.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

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

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I thoroughly enjoyed it and the experience was great as well. The people were great to work alongside with both the placement students and the perm staff.


  • 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 Randstad
  • 4/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Randstad
  • Take the time to talk to your coworkers and get to know them. Know your HR rep Ultimately, if you are struggling do not hesitate to talk to someone as in my experience everyone is very personable and will do their best to help you.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Financial Management, Business Operations

North West

May 2024


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