Assistant Associate Review

I am an Assistant Associate in the Project Controller branch of Consulting. My day to day tasks involve building and maintaining trackers, raising invoices and managing debtors. We normally deal with internal employees although often have to ring the Account Payable departments of other companies in order to chase payment.

I am currently studying towards my CIMA qualification and I am currently 3 exams into the first year. My excel skills have improved greatly since joining the firm and this has been further enhance by monthly excel training sessions. I have also attended SAP training.

My programme is a great opportunity for me to learn the core processes at Deloitte and sets me up very well for the future. I have a great team around me who are always happy to help if I need any. The company culture places a lot of emphasis on socialising which I enjoy.

I feel that as I become more experienced and have more training I can take on much harder jobs and therefore have become much more useful.

My programme is very well structured and mixes working life with college very well as it gives me plenty of time between the college course and exams to revise whilst still being able to get all of my work finished. I have a monthly review with my senior manager so that he can make sure I am coping well and if I have any problems I can let him know and he will help. Everyone in the team is there for support whenever I need it.

I receive a lot of support from my tutors and can contact them with any issues whenever I need to as they provide mobile and home numbers as well as an email address so I can reach them if I need to. They encourage us to ring them if we do have any questions which I appreciate.

Everyone within my team has been really helpful. As I start to become more experienced and start to deal with more tasks on projects I find myself meeting new people within the organisation who are equally happy to help and explain things. My mentor has been especially helpful as he is always available for me to talk to and looks out for me to see if I need any help.

I am very pleased with my salary in my current situation as I still live at home. However, if I decided to move out I think I would struggle to make ends meet with regards to rent payments and bill payments.

Deloitte are always putting on work events for us to go and socialise with other people from other service areas. There are many after work clubs such as football teams.

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Based on my experience it is a really good company to work for and treats you very well.

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