Commercial Audit Placement Student Review
by Grant Thornton
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
3.8
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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 Grant Thornton
- 7. Would you recommend Grant Thornton to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Grant Thornton
Overview
Used various sampling techniques and calls with clients to assess the validity of the financial statements they produce. The work is based on excel - so you will be pretty proficient by the end of the placement. Travel often to client sites which keeps the role interesting and builds your confidence communicating with clients and I had 5 away jobs where we were accommodated in hotels due to their offices being far from Leeds.
Skills
Excel Confidence when working in new environments and when working in new teams Understand financial statements and companies house documents
Responsibilities
Yes, had one on one calls with clients within the first 2 weeks. This is daunting but really pushed me to understand the work and I could always add my colleagues into the calls if I felt i needed support answering the clients questions. You will be in charge of various sections of the audit (payroll, stock etc) by the end of month 2.
Support & Guidance
3 day intro to accounting training course - overwhelming amount of content Great mentor programme in place Had a training record which contained feedback from managers on each client
Culture
Positive, hard-working, motivating, balanced, youthful (15 new starters in my intake 18yrs-25yrs)
Your Impressions
I enjoyed it more and more throughout the placement and as you get to know the work and your colleagues better. Seeing myself get better throughout the placement was a great motivator. As they trusted you to work on more challenging sections of the audit this made the work more fulfilling. There were multiple balls/dinners/socials which were great.
Yes
Look on the GT website for CLEARR values/ethos etc. They will definitely crop up during the application process. Be chatty and speak up during the team challenge within the assessment centre. Contact former placement students or other new colleagues on linked in as everyone I spoke to was very friendly and helpful. If your looking for an accountancy/finance based placement I would definitely recommend Grant Thornton.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Audit, Accounting
Yorkshire and Humberside
September 2023
