KPMG 360 Apprentice Review

Bank Reconciliations, taking minutes and communicating with clients. Interactions with Finance Directors from a various amount of different businesses. Finding material misstatements in financial accounts is quite interesting as it allows you to investigate certain problems that occur with businesses. Meeting different people and overcoming a new challenge nearly every day is very interesting and challenging.

I have improved my communication and interpersonal skills after joining KPMG. I have also built on my presentation skills and can present to a large audience without being nervous. This allows me to build on my overall skill set and become better at my job role and as a person.

I enjoy my programme as the rotational aspect of it means I can work in different departments with different people picking up different skills and makes me into a well rounded individual. Meeting different people and making connections makes this worthwhile. This allows me to meet new people and pick up more social skills.

It is structured very well with the amount of time we get for study leave and exams is sufficient and everyone gets equal opportunities. The exams are spread out evenly and we have the correct balance of work and exams which allows us to relax at certain points throughout the year.

I receive a lot of support from my line manager and performance managers always listening to any problems that I have and giving me advice on what they thought I should do in tough situations. If at any point I have any problems, there are plenty of people who help out with this.

My training provider provides a good level of support due to regular chase ups for doing achievement steps for my exams as well as good feedback when assignments are submitted to improve on them. They provide quarterly calls with us to discuss progress and give tips on how to improve.

The qualification helps me perform my role a lot better because I actually understand what is happening at work and can understand and contribute to discussions as I understand the work form my studies. When I am going through some work that I need to do, I link parts of my studies to the work allowing me to understand things better.

There are plenty of social events such as football and cricket teams as well as societies like the African society and the Islamic society which allows you to meet people form various different backgrounds. Regular networking events allowing you to meet different people from different departments. This allows you to build social skills.

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Inclusive employer which gives you great opportunities and a lot of employee perks and benefits which is great. Opportunity to work with some of the biggest names in the world such as Adidas and HSBC. This is exciting as these companies are in the news regularly and you could be working on something that makes the news!

I would give people the advice of being yourself throughout the application process and KPMG encourage you to bring your whole self to work. Make sure you read the KPMG key values and behavioural capabilities that shows what interviewers are looking for. Understanding the core values of KPMG is the key to impressing the interviewer.