Assistant Manager Review

Auditing financial statements, this involves requesting invoices and testing balances that they are compataible with the financial reporting standards and testing all assertions. Speaking to directors and managers to get the finromation that is needed and docuenting this on working papers for review by managers and partners. Completing exams or attending college.

Ive developed my social skills involving talking to people, especially those in a senior leadership position and those more senior to me - not just my peers. I've also learnt accounting ability and debits and credits. My office skills have also been improved upon after doing a GCSE in excel.

I enjoy that there are a lot of different people that also did the same course as me so therefore there was ample room for social activities and to make friends. Sometimes the role can be boring but other times it is challenging, it can be rewarding at times also.

It could have been better organised with more rigid deadlines and they could have had more of an idea of what the role actually was. There was a lot of unnecessary administration involved with writing essays that could definitely have been avoided. The exam strucutre was good and I learnt a lot.

There was a lot of support whilst studying for the exams, it depends who you're working for. You are allowed time off to study for your exams and people are generally good at making sure you can finish at a suitable time to revise for these exams when it gets close to the date.

There is certainly a lot of support if we need it with the emails, however there certainly could have been less admin involved which would've been further support. They are good at letting you knoe uou can ask the tutor for help after college has finished but there were a lot of videos in work time - more of a match up would be better.

My ACA helps me perform my role and is pivotal to this position. The apprenticeship qualification doesn't help me in my role - I have had to work on saturdays to get this done. The technical content of the exams enables me to understand how to account for things and therefore if clients are doing it correctly.

Yes, I play football on a Monday 5-a side. There are group socials every quarter and a sports day every year. There used to be a ball in April that was free to go to paid for by RSM. There was also netball on wednesdays and thursdays with other colleagues.

Yes

It's a good mid tier firm to start your career at. Work/Life balance can sometimes be limited to careful consideration needs to be given as to whether it is something that you want to do. The people make the work fun and the ACA is a good qualification to have.

Make friends, work hard, if you want to specialise in a sector to do it early. Make sure that it's what you want to do. Know background on the company and also make sure you do extra curriculum activities or can talk about these. Project management skills are key.