Corporate assistant Review

Auditing insurance companies. Looking at their financial transactions and checking nothing is misstated, and that everything looks as one would expect for a company in their line of work. Lot's of agreeing client information to third party information.

Become very good at excel. Learnt how to macro in excel. Learnt accounting skills / knowledge.

It's good. Some client work during the year can be very repetitive. When things are more technical, it's more interesting. Doing the same tasks over and over is less engaging, but it must be done. Generally a pretty good eye opening set of learning experiences.

Quite well valued.

Pretty rigid / structured over each year.

Quite low. Limited college time, online classes are far worse than in-classroom lessons, emailing tutors is quite inefficient and unhelpful. The education software they provide is ~20 years out of date and still has spelling mistakes, syntax errors, and general errors that make some practice exams impossible to answer correctly. There is a decent overlap with the ICAEW question knowledge though, as one would expect, so it does have some value, but it's way less useful than ICAEW resources.

Pretty much everything one would expect from the employer. Some grey area over the terms and conditions of the apprenticeship I'm on which I feel is a bit unresolved but I don't particularly blame my firm for doing what their doing.

Pretty badly. There's very limited disposable income on the starting salary. Living in London is expensive and £21k doesn't leave much room for saving / doing nice things.

Yeah, pretty good on this front. But work load is such that I often feel I can't get involved in some stuff, and you can't do all the socials due to cost + lack of time. There's stuff to do if you want to do it though.

Yes

Good foot in the door / stepping stone onto something else. Probably treats people better than other similar firms, even though it can be tough at times.

Everyone here is warm, friendly, kind and helpful. If you are similar to that, and are a good listener and don't try to dominate a team exercise, you should get an offer to join.