Audit intern Review

by PwC

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Rating

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

    Overview

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

    • Assisting audit teams in audit procedures. Contacting the clients when needed, attending catch up meetings/calls, coaching sessions with senior members of the team. Updating progress in internal software. Studying for ACA exams when on study leave.

    Skills

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

    • Improvement in MS Excel. Learnt how to use internal audit software. Increased my accounting understanding and skills. Improved independent work.

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

    • 3/5
  • 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?

    • There is a lot of responsibility which is unnerving at the beginning. Auditors handle a lot of very sensitive data. Sometimes the data is confusing and overwhelming so you have to be very cautious when testing it.

  • 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?

    • Not as much as I expected. Sometimes I struggled and senior team members did not have time to provide coaching which led to slight delays and tense atmosphere. People on placements are not expected to have any prior knowledge of accounting, so there should be more support and coaching offered at the beginning.

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

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 4/5

    Culture

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

    • I really enjoyed the company culture and the atmosphere in the office. Audit's motto is 'work hard, play hard'. There is a lot of young people in the office so it is not too hard to find someone to connect with. There are a lot of social activities going on.

  • 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 really enjoyed it as it was a great start to my future career, whether it will be accountancy or audit. I enjoyed working with most of the teams.

  • 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 PwC

    • 4/5
  • 7. Would you recommend PwC to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to PwC

    • Be yourself during the application process. I wasn't the quickest one or the most active one during the AC but the feedback I got highlighted my personality. Some people get too tense and formal during the interview and it might be hard to have a good rapport with the interviewer.

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Audit

East of England

July 2023

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