Portfolio Analyst Review

My role as a portfolio Analyst is a governance and assurance based role. We assure programmes in the bank are following the correct assurance and governance processes and ensure they are set up in a way that allows them to deliver their objectives for the business. This includes being a source of guidance & support for the programme throughout their lifecycle.

Yes I have really developed my excel skills since beginning my role. We use excel in lots of different ways and use different formulas. I had a fair amount of knowledge to work with but this has really been built upon. I have also developed my confidence in a meeting/conference call environment.

I enjoy my role a lot. I have had a great time learning on the job and really like the team that I am in. I don't the apprenticeship programme itself and have found everyone at BPP really nice and helpful - I just find the workbook questions poorly worded and not very applicable to my role.

The general outline and what books to do and when to do them seems fairly well organised - as does the assessors grading your work and getting it back to you. The aspect that i've found really poorly organised is the security protocol submitting our work - BPP did not take into account that RBS has strict security when submitting work externally so the process was very disorganised.

I receive a great deal of support from my employer - my team especially. They always check in to make sure I have enough time for my work to get done, my manager is always there to help if i need. Additionally to this we have a contact within RBS that we can go to for all apprenticeship related queries and questions.

BPP so far have been fairly helpful although I have not had to ask for mcuh support at the moment. We have a manned email address that we can contact if we need to and we have scheduled telephone/ face to face check ins to see how we're doing to discuss any concerns

Personally so far I feel like the work itself is not really helping me to perform better in my role. The work isn't necessarily applicable to what i'm doing at the moment. However where it has been beneficial is helping to teach me how to balance my workload in a way that allows me to complete my work and apprentice work on time.

RBS has loads of extra curricular activities. They also have lots of planned events throughout the year. We also have colleague led networks which are employee let groups which cover a range of different things and all organise different events within themselves. There is always something going on to get involved in.

Yes

In my experience so far, RBS is just a really good, supportive place to work. They seem to actually care about their employees, there's loads to get involved in and lots of different routes that you can take your career development. There are also so many different teams and departments in RBS that it seems like there is something for everyone.

I would say the best thing would be is to just put yourself out there. Give as much of yourself as you can and put yourself out of your comfort zone as so far I have found that you really do get out of a role in RBS as you put into it.