Finance Analyst Review

I enjoyed my placement thoroughly althought there were times when I wasn't always as busy as I would have liked. But I was given great opportunites by my manager and working for an airline allowed me to travel a lot.

My manager always provided me with positive feedback.

Depending on the time of the month my 'busy levels' changed siginificantly. When it was month end I would have a heavy work load which I always enjoyed but this tended to drop off once monthend was over and I only has ad hoc queries to deal with.

I was given responsibility to create reports and cascade them but I was never really given much oportunity to attend meetings on my own.

The skill set I acquired whilst at BA was not relevant to my degree. But I developed my communication and team work skills which will better equip me for the work place.

There tends to be high proportion of people who have worked at BA for years so are quite settled and not really up for a good time. But they have started to bring in a lot of young people on their graduate scheme and there is small young social scene.

We started with a two day induction which allowed us to get to know all the other interns and the differnet areas around BA. Apart from that there was not much contact to check how we were getting on and how our placements were going, I believe the interns in commercial had more group contact.

I only attended one course whilst at British Airways, however where I was working did not demand much training.

I would consider a job at BA but perhaps in a different role.

There was a good social scene with the other interns, even taking trips abroad on our staff travel together. However the poor location means there doesn't tend to be any impromptu after work drinks, except on a Friday where a small number of people will head out.

I lived at home so did not have any living costs but socialising costs are as to be expected in London.