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 ITS her future networkfor 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 daytoday general auditing tasks which needed to be done such as creating lead sheets and data entry We would have regular catchup 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 catchup meeting with my team about what we were going to do that day My daytoday 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 MampA 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
Checking different kinds of paperwork like financial statements tax calculations etc
Liasing with HMRC on various clientrelated issues Drafting letters to HMRC Preparing presentations Working in teams to resolve taxrelated issues for clients Keeping up to date with the changes in tax legislation Preparing tax returns Sha
I was an audit intern I helped the team with their admin tasks and testing summarising minutes and providing proof of transactions
Learning about tax attending client calls interacting with members of the team from graduates to partners assisting on client projects
For the first four days we had induction to the whole of KPMG and values from then on we were on rotations between teams working on different audited entites checking data and bank statements
Sitting in on meetings with clients and partenrs Doing some smallish jobs jobs with and for people in my team
various updates analysis and investigations into project work
Started with a week long induction and then a 3 week department placement During the placement I worked with a team completing worksheets and tasks for them regarding the clients we were working with Throughout the 4 week vacation scheme I also had t