Finance Analyst Review

I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Travelport. I made good life friends as well as making good work colleagues

I felt valued by the vast majority of people in the company, however throughout the year new people joined who were not as on board with the placement scheme and didn't seem to value interns as much as previous employees. Overall though it was a positive feeling

During my 6 months the support was fantastic and I got on very well with my manager and they were interested in what I was doing and supporting me. However, 6 months in my team drastically changed and the interest in my job went down significantly and the support also wavered.

I was never particularly bored at work nor was I drowned in too much work.

I was given much more responsibility than I imagined I would be given and this was great! I was doing the same role as many of my full time employee team members

I now have a deeper understanding of accounting, my technical knowledge and just my general knowledge towards working life.

The general atmosphere was very good, people are very friendly and willing to help. Most people are more than happy to have a conversation not work related and making good friends is an easy thing to do.

The placement seemed to be well organised, we all knew what was going on and the training that was in place was great for my role. No one that I know of was up in the air about what they had to do or found this process not good enough.

We had many training days for the interns, we learned life skills about graduate jobs and CV's etc. We also gained an insight into different areas of the business in order to broaden our knowledge post placement. If we wanted we were able to shadow other departments under a different manager and learn about their department and gain more perspective.

I know of a few people that will be returning to the organisation within the team or even a different team. There is currently no graduate scheme as such but they do hire graduates for permanent roles and are more than willing to pay for training such as professional bodies etc.

There was a fantastic Social Club that had events more or less each month organised by the company, also the interns did many events with themselves and there was very much a friendly feeling between the 22 of us.

The cost of living down South is drastically more expensive than in the Midlands and North. It wasn't too expensive but it did limit how much you were able to do.

There was only one nightclub in the town I rented in, however central London was just a tube away. Saying that it was incredibly expensive to do this.

The Social Club organised many events as well as teams organising meals and drinks outside of work