Summer Associate Review

by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

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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.

    • Working predominantly within the Project Management team on a multitude of projects within Financial Crime and ESG initiatives. This mainly involved working with various softwares, engaging with stakeholders and managing large sets of data. I also worked within the ESG Policy Team on new ideas that will later be introduced to regulated firms within the United a kingdom.

    Skills

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

    • Multiple Softwares (including finance and project management), Excel, Powerpoint, Sharepoint, Stakeholder Engagement, Analysing Data.

  • 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, my line manager allowed me to select projects I was interested in and through this I was able to implement my own ideas and approaches to tasks.

  • 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?

    • Everyone was available to help when I was being taught technical approaches.

  • 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?

    • Super welcoming and hard working. A good work life balance.

  • 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?

    • Very enjoyable! Learnt a plethora of new skills alongside building great connections.

  • 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 Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

    • 5/5
  • 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)

    • Be yourself- there’s a role for everyone

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Financial Management, Project Management, Logistics and Operations

London

August 2023

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