Tax summer intern Review
by BDO
Rating
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Skills
3.8
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
4.0
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Culture
4.0
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Your Impressions
4.0
- 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 BDO
- 7. Would you recommend BDO to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BDO
Overview
Assisting other graduates in the team and assistant managers/managers. Day to day: Drafting letters of engagement Speak to / writing letters to HMRC on behalf of clients Uploading client accounts Background checks on clients to ensure they have legitimate businesses Filling out financial data online to calculate the tax payable Categorising expenditure
Skills
Developed independent learning, learning to question the 'why'. Developed the ability to work with more senior colleagues Learnt to manage peoples expectations in terms of deadlines and workload Time tracking to fill out time sheets
Responsibilities
Given responsibility of checking reports before they are sent to clients to spot typos and grammatical/spelling errors Trusted to analyse client data and produce list of points that we need a client to clarify in relation to expenditure Drafting letters to HMRC, clients
Support & Guidance
I had a buddy who was available to answer quick questions and was also able to ask graduates/trainees anything I wasn't sure about. I had a weekly catch up with my people manager which allowed me to discuss career aspirations and the objectives that I set myself.
Culture
Very friendly and helpful, people would always make time to help explain things to you People are hard working and value a good work ethic and positive attitude
Your Impressions
The work was interesting and challenging which was enjoyable. No two days were the same and the team made sure to get you involved in a range of tasks. The culture was very friendly and supportive. The partners were all very approachable and this was something I feared might not have been the case before I joined I would definitley be keen to join as a trainee
Yes
Definitely apply, its a great company with plently of opportunity for development
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Audit
London
August 2022
