Audit Associate Intern Review
by British Sugar
This review was submitted over 4 years ago, so some of the information it contains may no longer be relevant.
Rating
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The Role
4.1
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The Company
4.2
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The Culture
3.9
- 1. To what extent did you enjoy your work placement or internship?
- 2. To what extent did you feel valued by your colleagues?
- 3. To what extent were you given support and guidance by management/your supervisor(s)?
- 4. How busy were you on a daily basis?
- 5. How much responsibility were you given during your placement?
- 6. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and training you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?
- 7. What was the general atmosphere in your office?
- 8. How well organised was the overall work placement or internship set up?
- 9. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?
- 10. What were the perks on your work placement?
- 11. How appealing are future employment prospects within the organisation?
- 12. Was there a good social scene amongst any fellow placement students/colleagues?
- 13. What was the cost of living and socialising in the area you worked in?
- 14. What was the Nightlife like in the area you worked?
- 15. Were there many opportunities to get involved in activities outside of work?
The Role
A mix of some mundane tasks and some tasks with lots of responsibility, not very much in between. There was some scope for developing your own projects, and other members of staff do really appreciate it when you put effort into work that will help them.
Friendly people are definitely in the majority, although it does take a couple of months of people seeing your face around to really feel like a part of the family.
Support was available on request, my line manager did a very good job in structuring the placement, my one criticism would be that many of the management (including my line manager) are very busy and hence quite hard to pin down.
Neither too much nor too little work. I was kept busy with a mixture of low and high responsibility jobs. I only had to come in early or stay late on a very infrequent basis.
I was a critical part of a few projects that were worth quite a sizable amount of money to the company. There are definitely opportunities to make your mark at the company here, and I've been involved in plenty of jobs that have provided me with invaluable business and engineering experience. The pressure never got to be too much and there was always a safety net in place and people to consult if certain jobs were becoming to difficult or time consuming.
My research skills also benefited immensely from the problem solving nature of the projects I was undertaking. Not very much in the way of formal training took place apart from a lean sigma yellow belt qualification, an internationally recognised and highly sought after qualification.
The Company
Welcoming friendly people, if I ever needed help they would normally make time for me.
It was well structured and set up so that I was responsible for almost everything I did.
I was fortunate to undertake a lean sigma yellow belt qualification; the majority of the training however seems to be reserved for people with full time positions in the company, which is understandable enough.
Flexi Time
Subsidised/Company Gym
The majority of chemical engineers who come to work for the company are put on the graduate training programme with the intention of sending them down the path of becoming a shift operations manager.
The Culture
Good, but we were pretty spread apart so it was sometimes difficult.
It was considered to be reasonable to live in.
The nearby city was big and safe and had a number of pubs.
There were number of activities just nearby places.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Accounting, Actuary, Audit
East of England
August 2014
