Deals Rotation Intern Review

I enjoyed the varied experience I had across different business units within the Deals Line of Service, from Corporate Finance (Mergers & Acquisitions) to Forensics (Financial Crime, and Capital Projects & Infrastructure). It was a great overview of a company with a strong person-centred company. They don't like when they say won of their key values is relationships! Networking internally and externally is what keeps this running smoothly.

My managers were all really friendly and happy to help and support me where it was needed. Of course, many people (particularly senior members of staff) are very busy within the company and so I felt personally, along with my peers, that you should first try to learn and support yourself before resorting immediately to asking for help or time from your manager. But this was a valuable learning experience in itself.

There was a large variation in busyness, depending on which project or team I was within. Most of the time I had work to be getting on with but often the deadlines were not too harsh so it didn't feel overly stressful. I also spent a decent amount of time having meetings with

This also varied project to project. At the beginning, I was provided with very specific tasks to complete but by my final engagement I was tasked with a larger activity. As a consequence it was more my responsibility to manage my own time and resource on completing this.

I increased my time management, corporate social and networking skills, general powerpoint, excel and google work skills, precision to detail was key for all projects with both attention to financial and qualitative data, and to the design and optics of the presenting work. This will all help me greatly with my personal organisation and presenting myself in the market place.

People were very friendly and there wasn't a big hierarchy.