trainee associate Review

My role is to help out the audit team with testing specific FSLIs. I do the exact same role as everybody else however just test the easier parts of the financial statements and the more complex things are done by the more senior people on the team. This involves normally being on a team catch up in the morning and then getting on with my testing for the rest of the day

I have learnt a lot of new skills. My main one being my excel skills and general computer skills, these have improved massively as I have been required to use these everyday. I have also learnt how to communicate with clients as this is something that I have never done before this job.

The programme is a great opportunity as an alternative to uni and you come out with the same qualification as the graduates and qualify at least 2 years quicker than them. It is very full on and is hard to balance the work and exams sometimes but it is all manageable as long as you set the correct boundaries.

The programme is well structured as it has been going on for many years. They send a schedule of when your college days and when your exams are for the whole first year. They are well set up and my cohort had about 20 people from all around the country join

We receive a lot of support from PwC. Everyone gets a career coach who is a manager in the office that you speak to if you are having any issues whether they are work or non work related. You also get a talent coach which is a similar contact but from Kaplan and they help you with keeping you on your apprenticeship pathway

Kaplan do give us lots of help, we are assigned a talent coach who has quarterly reviews to check up on how we are getting on and making sure our admin stuff is up to date. They give good materials to prepare us for every exam which help us pass.

The qualification is very good in helping in my role because it helps me learn about the background of the accounting concepts to help me understand whether or not the client are correctly accounting for it. Also they are very good at putting the exams at certain times for example we do the accounting exam which is quite a kep exam near the beginning

Yes, at the office we have pillars which you can get involved in which are the diversity and inclusion pillar, social and wellbeing, feedback, quality and one other. We also have a bowling club where we go bowling on the 3rd thursday of every month. We also have a cambridge office cricket team in the summer and play against other businesses.

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They are a very good company to work for who have a very generous expense policy and look after their employees well. There is great career progression and huge potentials to move into any sector that you would like to. They have many offices over the country and the world so you have lots of freedom to go wherever you like.

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