Corporate Finance Analyst Review

I am a Corporate Finance analyst, I spend my day aiding on business transactions. My role includes drafting the IM, buyer research, pricing analysis and wriritng meeting notes. My role includes a degree of responsibility and I have opportunities to present in client meetings, developing my own network of relationships.

Yes, through my apprenticeship I have devloped a wide range of business skills including strong communication skills and confidence in my ability to perform under pressure. It has also drastically improved my time management, I work well to deadlines and am effcient in my approach to work. My writing an grammer has improved a lot being responsible for email drafting.

I really enjoy my day to day job, I'm given a good level of responsibility for my grade and relied on by more senior members of staff. The work is interesting and there is a good opportunity to develop professional and personal relationships, this was imporant for me not going to uni.

Extremely. The wellbeing support is amazing, with councelling and further support available for all collegues. But also my team are there for me like friends not collegues. Comparing to my friends jobs I feel extremly lucky with the resource at my finger tips, I am very apprecitative. Also, when I do a good job, my work is recognised.

This is an area KPMG could improve on, the communication between the business and the apprenticeship team is quite poor. The apprecticeship team often give off contridicting messages and won't consult us first prior to making big decisons that affect our careers. If you want to do well or get into areas that you are interested in, the responsibility falls on your shoulders.

BPP are great, I have found that the majority of the tutors are extremely supportive and are very responsive to any questions you have after the course. I have found that a couple of the tutors have been hard to work with and haven't fit my learning style. I have fed this back to them.

KPMG are extremely supportive, the job at times can be quite stressful and pressured, they recognise this and ensure that there are levels of support to deal with this. My team are fantastic and give me the time I need to decompress and also central KPMG offer a lot of wellbeing support.

Well enough, I manage to pay rent and have enough money to still save. Obviously everyone would like more money but I understand that while you are training and there are study costs, pay is slightly limited. There is a bonus scheme based off your performance in the financial year.

Yes, at KPMG you create a strong base of friends in your team and we have drinks and other events like BBQs outside of work. You become part of a community. Also, they have a good voluntering scheme, giving your c.7 days a year to do bits in your community to help out.

Yes

This is answer does depend quite a bit on which part of the business I am recommending. I would definitely recommed someone look into the Corporate Finance graduate programmes as I think it is an interesting area of the business and you can gain some great experience. But I wouldn't now recommend the apprenticeship programme as it has shifted to an audit only apprecticeship, which is an area of business I am less keen on and can be tough for junior employees.

To work at suceed at KPMG you have to be proactive and not take no for an answer sometimes. People respect open and honest behaviour, if you are interested in a section of the business, take someone in that team for coffee and see if there might be an option for an apprecitce to join. Hard work obviously comes with the job but ensure you have enough switch off time for yourself, an apprectices are still young and are still growing up. Proper time off is important.