Finance Intern Review

by American Express

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Worked on a ten week internship project analysing the profitability of a commercial portfolio. Involved SQL and excel alongwith powerpoint for the final presentation.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Learned better excel skills and presentation techniques. Learnt how to code in SQL and how to communicate across teams


  • 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?
  • 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
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • We had total oversight of out internship project. The project was needed and not created just for the interns it was a project required by the team. No buisness as usual work was given overall


  • 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?
  • Huge amounts. Even with my team being cross border everyone was willing to help and my direct team in Argentina were very supportive and gave good feedback throughout


  • 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?
  • Super friendly, huge coffee chat culture. You are heavily encouraged to speak accross teams and meet as many people as possible


  • 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?
  • 3/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I hugely enjoyed it, was reappy different to my expectations with a very chilled culture


  • 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 American Express
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend American Express to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to American Express
  • Express yourself and ask as many questions as you can. Engage with your wider teams


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Financial Management

London

August 2024


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