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Day one involved networking and learning about the several societies at KPMG. The second day involved group exercises and presentations. The third day involved coding workshops and well-being seminars. It also included a virtual assessment centre which in...
During the three days, I had the chance to meet and talk to people from across the business. It was an inspiring experience to learn more about the business and learn more about KPMG and the variety of opportunities available. During the last day, I had t...
Learnt about what KPMG does, their values, different tracks, work employees do and external projects.
Three-day insight programme. The first day was in-person at their main office in Canary Wharf. There were a series of talks from employees about the different lines of service that we could apply to through the programme. The second day was virtual and in...
The programme was targeted at young black students and graduates to give a peek into life at KPMG. We got to learn from and interact with employees and understood their roles and responsibilities. We got to learn about the different networks providing sup...
A mixture of in-person and virtual activities and sessions. Panel sessions from KPMG colleagues in various areas. group activities, insight to the company, skill/interview training and tips.
On the first day it was in person in the Canary Wharf office listening to various speakers and having the opportunity to ask questions. I had the opportunity to network with employers and other candidates. On the second day, I had chances to develop my p...
Day 1- in-person networking at the Canary Wharf office, introduction to the firm, staff and capabilities and finally an introduction to the fintech group project. Day 2- group presentation with feedback from partners, Q&A with current staff in your ap...
Talks from colleagues about their career progression and their day to day work
Got to attend talks from successful women in technology working at KPMG, and got an insight into their career paths and what a career in tech looks like for women now at KPMG. Got a great insight into what the technology unit of KPMG actually does, the di...
Virtual insight week with multiple different teams meetings every week including interview skills workshops, insights into the IT'S her future network(for females in IT) at KPMG and talks from different teams within technology at KPMG.
The insight was four weeks long. The first week was an induction to KPMG and understanding their values, etc. Weekly rotations with different teams and managers followed, where tasks were given based on the audited entity for that week. The tasks involved...
-attending daily meetings -working on different audit tasks, mainly substantive testing -attended meetings with clients
As the only student within the team, I helped with the day-to-day general auditing tasks which needed to be done, such as creating lead sheets and data entry. We would have regular catch-up calls within the team and they were always encouraging me to ask ...
Worked on different projects within my team, met with many different people at all levels, carried out research, produced summaries etc
Every morning, we had a catch-up meeting with my team about what we were going to do that day. My day-to-day activties included helping my buddy transfer files from one workbook to another on eAudIT and also filling out certain sections of the Stakeholder...
During my time with my team, I was involved in several M&A projects. I was responsible for conducting market research for an upcoming client pitch and then condensed my research for the pitch itself. I also took on a project management role where I he...
The entire vacation scheme was online due to Covid but the experience I think was the best considering the circumstances. For the first week, there was an induction, where we talked through all the different processses and requirements. The rest of the sc...
Completing Client based work such as producing slide Decks, producing excel spreadsheets, and going through proposals for different clients
I was a vacation student so I helped out with whatever jobs people needed. This involved working on Excel spreadsheets, case law research, and presentation drafting. As well as work, there were a lot of meetings with employees both within and external to ...
