Summer Analyst Review

I had a fantastic time at RBS - the work I was given enabled me to understand so much, the culture was so friendly (great for a new-joiner) and the social events organised were great. My first rotation involved very technical work and I got to really see how lending works within the Bank for major international companies but due to the technicality I was heavily involved in Risks & Controls rather than day to day jobs of my team members. In my second rotation in the re-structuring part of the Bank was phenomenal with customer meetings, watch forums, letters to clients etc.

Extremely valued - everyone had time for me and they made me feel as though no question was too stupid to ask. I was able to network with so many people from across my team, International Banking and the wider Bank as they were so willing to have a chat about what they do within RBS and find out about you. My team went for lunch together, invited me out to team drinks and tried to bring me along to as many meetings as possible. However at the same time you should make the effort to start conversations and build relationships as this can lead to new projects.

My first line manager always had a few conversations with me each day to see how I was getting on with my work even if it was a task which he had not set me and was willing to answer any questions that I had no matter what they related to. With my second line manager I found it was more down to me to instigate the conversations, however when I did this he was more than happy to engage in conversation.

In my first rotation I was a good level of busy and if my work did occasionally have a quieter hour I would use this to talk to people within my team about their roles etc as well as colleagues from across International Banking. However in my second rotation, I had quieter spells much more frequently so had to 'hunt' for work a lot harder - which is quite good as it means you can meet more people but does mean you are not as involved in one specific project.

As much responsibility as could reasonably be expected so for instance when I prepared some documents for deciding upon whether a company should get x million new loan after my preparation, my manager reviewed my work before using it to decide upon this. I managed to be invited to client meetings and take minutes in some of these - with one of these documents being modified by a lawyer currently, before possibly being used in court.

I believe that the soft skills such as time management, flexibility, communication, asking questions and working to deadlines will be skills that I can take away with me to use in my final year of uni and in a future job. The more banking specific knowledge will be useful if I get an offer for RBS however not as useful in my general degree.

Varied greatly between by two rotations but overall was a fantastic place to work

HR and my managers set out clear guidelines so I knew what to aim for in my work and the outside of work social events also worked really well in terms of organisation.

Excel training, lunch and learn sessions, networking evenings etc certainly gave us a very thorough knowledge base.

Apparently 50-60% of us will get an offer, so fingers crossed but no specific knowledge as yet

More of a lunch, officially organised event meetings rathe rthan intern night outs - probably due to vast differences in hours worked.

Pretty expensive being the city but I did commute from home so didn't suffer accommodation costs

More drinks and social networking events rather than nightlife as the hours differ bastly.

We had charity days, fundraising sessions, sports days so a lot of varies events.