Assistant Project Accountant Review
by BAE Systems
Rating
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Skills
4.3
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
3.8
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Your Impressions
4.3
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at BAE Systems
- 7. Would you recommend BAE Systems to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BAE Systems
Overview
Ensuring cash is getting into the business on a monthly basis, a wide admin role for many of the reporting processes, assisting co-workers in tasks/projects, improving internal processes, working with other teams within working groups and designing new and improved models for documents that will be used by the wider business.
Skills
Improved my communication skills, presenting technique, learning new accounting fundamentals, Excel skills, skills in certain accounting/database programs, work/time management, tackling hard problems, working within groups to find a common solution, resilience when a difficult situation arises and creating something that is specified to a stakeholder's needs.
Responsibilities
Yes, once I showed my worth within the first few months of my placement, I was entrusted with more responsibility. I was surprised when they gave me the important responsiblity of ensuring the funding, for our biggest project, from our customer comes in every month. To gain more responsibility you need to be enthusiastic and ask your manager for more opportunities.
Support & Guidance
I received lots of support from everyone around the business as well as there being user guides to provide guidance around certain tasks/processes.
Culture
The culture within finance was to provide a high quality output to the wider business whilst ensuring all of our processes ran efficiently. There is a very friendly atmosphere which makes it easy to get along with people you may not even know and it feels like everyone is very supportive of each other.
Your Impressions
I have really enjoyed my placement, even whilst working from home for the majority of it. You are given lots of opportunities to strive and you will fit into your team and into the business straight away.
Yes
You will really benefit from a job at BAE if you strive to find/create new processes that can replace existing outdated ones. Being a team player is highly valued due to the large amounts of interaction between all areas of the business. Last of all, being analytical and a proficient problem-solver will make you stand out.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Accounting
North West
June 2021
