Digital Risk Advisory Services(DRAS) Intern Review

by BDO

Rating

5/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • I am a DRAS intern and a typical day to day at BDO involved attending meetings with my manager and planning out my whole day effectively. I also would be assigned various controls and testing to carry out for clients. Therefore, I would go through the necessary training for each controls with my team and ensure that everything is well prepared. Sometimes, I shadow my manager in internal audit client meetings so it was a well rounded experience.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I have learnt a lot of new skills. Such as how to carry out controls and testing using a company's financial documents. I have greatly improved my people and communication skills through asking frequent questions and socialising in the office. My use of Microsoft Excel as greatly increased and improved due to how often I use it for client work


  • 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?
  • 5/5

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

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

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes I was given a lot of responsibility as is expected when dealing with Client work especially.


  • 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?
  • I received and excellent amount of support during my internship from day 1 through to the end.


  • 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?
  • Everyone in the company that I met was very welcoming and friendly, it was a very comfortable yet intellectually stimulating environment.


  • 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?
  • 5/5

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

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I enjoyed it very very much


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 5/5

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

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at BDO
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend BDO to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BDO
  • Be yourself, be open to learning new things everyday and do not be nervous at all. You will be fine.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Accounting, Financial Management

North West

August 2022


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