Accounts Assistant Review

My daily tasks consist of Accounts preparation, financial reporting and insight advisory. I also can undertake bookkeeping tasks, as well as working on my apprenticeship. I frequently undertake internal RSM courses to widen my learning, such as unconscious bias training. On a day to day basis i deal with client information.

Yes, on top of the courses i attend with BPP as part of my apprenticeship, i also attend plenty of internal RSM courses provided. Recently, i have attended courses that strengthen my written and verbal communication, as well as improving my ability to work as part of a team. These courses have been detrimental to my career progression

The programme is quite stressful, but equally as rewarding. You make friends at the beginning at RSM on training courses, which helps build connections you can use going forward. I still keep in contact with colleagues i would've otherwise never even met or spoken to! The culture is great, it's very diverse and accepting.

Pre covid, everything was well structured. From RSM's perspective, everything was laid out well. I don't want to judge RSM's structure based on COVID's timeline, because they weren't to know what was going to happen or how long it was going to go on for.

I receive a lot of support from my Line manager. She frequently checks in with me to see how i am doing and getting on. I do think there could have been improvements relating to COVID however, such as slack given for those who were significantly affected by COVID. Being able to stay exam ready when you cannot take exams is something even i underestimated the difficulty of, and I felt as if it wasn't really appreciated

I think this could be improved on. Teachers do say during courses if you need help to contact them, but replies are slow, if you even get one. Staff at BPP do contact you sending a generic email asking how you're getting on, but more often than not you'll get a different response to the same question from different staff members

I think the actual contents of the courses is quite good, it really helps to educate me on different parts of Accounting, however i think sometimes the quality of teaching can be a little sporadic. Sometimes you might get a really good teacher, and sometimes you may get one who overcomplicates things. I can't be too harsh on this though as it will be the same with any education provider

Yes, but during COVID this has understandably slowed. We frequently get emails on networking events we can attend localised to our area, as well as having sports teams such as a 5 a side football team in a local league. We also have staff socials that we can go to

Yes

Working at RSM is very rewarding. They give quite a tailored experience in the school leaver programme, and cater to different peoples needs. But, also, the people who work for RSM are accepting and helpful. The firm holds good values which i can agree with, and address topics that they don't have to, but do for going above and beyond

for those applying for RSM, i would say to read very carefully what you are applying for, and try to connect with someone, possibly on LinkedIn, who has worked for RSM or even in the Accounting industry. I went in to it pretty blind, and although it worked out for me, i can understand that for some, this approach wouldn't work at all