Senior Associate Review

Audit senior, field managing teams and engagements. Communicating with people from different businesses and under standing accounting issues. It involves travelling around to different businesses and working with different people on a day to day basis. often we are based within one place for1-8 weeks at a time. This is dependent on the size of the business.

Auditing and accounting, leadership and excel skills. We are working towards the ACA qualifitcation, which is a worldwide recognised learning achievement. I have learnt important communication skills and the ability to manage my workload in the time given. organisation is an important skill. It ha also given me the skills to navigate transport to any given location.

I enjoy most of the people i work with, there are often pressurised situations due to time deadlines on work. Sometimes i don't enjoy the required flexibility of moving projects at short notice, requiring long travel times. I enjoy the varied amount of work which is given in a mixture of different degree of difficulty. The people that we work with are what make the job enjoyable.

There is some level of recognition, however this is down to the individual senior above. All have different expectations, which makes it hard to get recognised and rewarded. Most of the time, some individuals who have worked hard will go unnoticed as they didn't work for managers who appreciate the work they do. Also reward is often based on talking to senior staff who are likely to be able to have an input into your reward/recognition

Mostly organised, often as we are resourced based, there is often last min changes in line with project deadlines. There is a scheduling team who book you to jobs, which also book all the learning time you need and are constantly reminded of learning requirements which are due in the future.

Apart from internal training, a very small amount. Internal training teaches us how to deal with tough situations and builds on talking skills with the clients and people we meet. This is usually run by senior members of staff within the office who all have a varied degree of experience. This would be better if training was done by a professional teacher, as sometimes it is hard to follow.

There is a member of a hr team available if you widh to the speak to them, alongside business leaders who are able to talk to use about job specific issues. The access to these are not always clear but there are lots of different intiatives for various issues. On a dsy to day basis, there is little support unless you go and look for it.

The salary is okay, in comparision to the grad programme it is not the best, considering you will be expected to do the same amount of work but being paid less. The equivalent of someone who is in the year below. All travel costs however are paid for providing it is for non office commutes.

There are many office events, which are spaced out to about 4 per year. These are varied in size and attendance. There is a good year group feel to the people you join with, which makes the most of the social events. The events are normally of good quality but these are spaced out throughput the year.

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It is a good learning experience, it helps you achieve your goals wuicker, with a lot of skills learnt within a short period of time. Managers are usually helpful with building and explain expectations and the work to be completed. The work you do generally links through to your studies. It helps build your confiedence and independence in travelling and talking to senior staff very early on in your career

Ensure that you have extra curriculum activities, on going before you join to talk about them in the recruitment process. Deloitte is a service provider, thus look to employ well rounded individuals, thus it is important you show that you are interested in activities outside of work as well as your studies.