Assistant Management Accountant Review

I help to provide support to budget managers, making sure they have access to useful information that they can use when making decisions about the future. I make sure they can use our finance systems and understand what the numbers they are shown mean. I also help produce monthly finance reports that we are required to produce.

My skills in Excel have improved. I can now perform useful functions such as vlookups and sumifs that I wasn't able to do before. My ability to communicate finance related information to non-finance colleagues has also improved as I've spent more time in meetings with budget managers in the services.

There's a lot of seemingly useless busy work around the apprenticeships I've done that makes it difficult to say I have 'enjoyed' the process of them. So much time is spent building a portfolio that I don't get any benefit from, just to tick a box that allows me to pass at the end.

I wasn't told my lessons would need to be on weekends until it got to booking one. I wasn't told that my exam fees should be claimed through the training provider instead of the normal expenses system expenses. I wasn't told how to book exams or even that I would need to sign up to the organisation that provides the qualification independently.

My manager and the team around me is very good at checking on my progress to make sure I'm doing well. They also come u with new opportunities for me to learn, to help my long term progression. I definitely get the sense they care about my progression and my future.

My training provider has not been very helpful so far. I wasn't told key pieces of information until it was too late for me to do anything about it. For example I wasn't told I would have to do weekend lessons, which could have really been a problem if circumstances were different.

In the short term it doesn't have that much effect. However, over the long term, the qualification will allow me to progress further through the roles in my organisation, allowing me to experience lots of different areas. At that point my qualification will definitely be applicable to the direct work I am doing.

We regularly have nights out, and occasionally some day events (e.g. BBQs). I've met some great people from outside of my team on these, which really makes it easier to enjoy work. Sports teams would be nice, but I don't think we have the numbers for them.

No

The pay isn't as high as you would be able to get elsewhere for equivalent positions, and the amount of work put on our team is just silly. I regularly see people working in the evenings which is really unacceptable. Having a generous annual leave allocation is nice, but doesn't make up for the clear downsides.

The people I've met here are great, but that could be the case anywhere. If you're thinking about applying for the NHS, you should know that you could be being paid more elsewhere, you could be getting a bonus elsewhere, you could have you're xmas party paid for elsewhere, but would your work elsewhere help as many people?