Finance Industrial Placement Review
by BAE Systems
Rating
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Skills
3.5
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
4.0
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Culture
4.0
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Your Impressions
3.3
- 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
Helping line manager with day to day tasks, like processing journals and running actual cost reports. Attending meetings with members of the project team. A few monthly tasks like providing comments for the balance sheet, and reconciling the monthly actual costs across the different systems.
Skills
Developed communication skills, meeting and talking to people from the wider business on a day-to-day basis and at Finance events. Learnt a lot about BAE systems and what it would be like to work there.
Responsibilities
I was given monthly jobs to complete on my own. And the odd query that I would have to go away and try to figure out.
Support & Guidance
My line manager was great. Also the finance early careers department were great. I had a mentor who I didn’t speak to much, and a buddy who left the business a few months after I started. There was always someone to ask if I needed guidance on anything.
Culture
Everyone was really friendly and lovely to work with. I think because I was only there for a year it was hard to fully integrate into the team, especially when we only went into the office 2 times a week. But that worked well for me as I had a 1 hour commute into work.
Your Impressions
I learnt a lot and got a lot out of my placement year. The job specific training could be better, and sometimes there wasn’t a lot to do because my manager was busy and I couldn’t really do much on my own. It was very useful in deciding what I want to do after university, and the application process definitely helps with this too. Overall I enjoyed the year.
Yes
BAE systems is a great company to work for with lots of benefits and lovely people. Depending on where you work the work can be exciting and busy. Research the company well and their values.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Accounting
North West
June 2023
