Associate - Authorisations Review

by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

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Rating

4.3/5
  • Skills
    4.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    3.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Work varied a lot depending on what I was working on, generally consisted of lots of data work in excel/tableau. Frequent meetings with other members of staff and delivering presentations were also somewhat common.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Learnt: Tableau data presentation, other internal tools + knowledge of financial markets via learning modules Developed: Excel skills, presentation skills

  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • I was given total freedom with respect to my own projects and was responsible for their success and delivery. The work I was doing generally felt meaningful and significant throughout

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • Frequent chats with line manager and other members of staff if I ever needed advice or guidance. Easy access to any information I might need and guidance about how to interpret it was readily available

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Very relaxed atmosphere, people were very willing to have a quick chat if you wanted to learn anything. As long as I met my deliverables there were no constraints on my activities

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

    • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • Very much enjoyed it and would recommend to others, the work was very interesting and the culture felt incredibly supportive.

  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 4/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

    • 3/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

    • Read over all the FCA core values and try to display them during interviews. Stay up to date on a couple of their recent initiatives. There is no need to do any prep before day 1

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

London

August 2022

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