Corporate Assistant Review

by Forvis Mazars

Best Apprenticeship Employer

Rating

9/10

1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:

I work as a trainee auditor at the Mazars Leeds office. My day to day activities involve visiting client sites and performing audit testing. As now I’m in my second year so have bit responsibility so I do look on the project management side of the sone activities as well.

10/10

2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

Since starting on my apprenticeship I have learnt quite few new skills, some of the notable ones include professional scepticism. I think this skills comes very naturally as part of job as an auditor. As auditor I have to be very sceptical to ensure that I’m performing my duties well.

9/10

3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

It has been a year and half since I have started my job and I have loved it so far. The most exciting part of it is that it challenges me. As part of my apprenticeship programme I am studying towards my qualification but along with that working full time as well.

10/10

4. How well organised/structured is your programme?

I personally believe that the programme is structure ver well and we have clear guidelines regarding what is expected of as and how should we be doing. Also all the training material is available to us and also regular training sessions help us to develop ever further in our knowledge.

10/10

5. How much support do you receive from your employer?

My employer has been very supportive and given it is one of the biggest accounting firm in the UK we have very structured internal training and support system. There is a designated early careers development team who’s only job is to help and support the trainees so that they can develop further.

10/10

6. How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?

Since I have started on to the programme ‘y feelings for the training provide has been mixed. Even though BPP is a massive organisation but I think there is a greater workload there and that means when sometime need help or support and I won’t revive a reply from them.

5/10

7. How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?

I think my qualification has helped me a lot to perform my role. As I started as a school leaver having no knowledge of accountancy. So by doing the AAT qualification I have been able to learn the basics about the accountancy which eventually helped me to perform my job better.

8/10

8. Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)

My firm has been great in terms of the extra curricular activities, we have a sports team where we play football every week on Monday also we have rugby team as well. Along with that we get one day off every year to volunteer at a charity of our own choice.

10/10

9a. Would you recommend Forvis Mazars to a friend?

Yes

9b. Why?

I think Mazars LLP is the best and the reason for it is that unlike the big 4 you get help at very personal level at Mazars but along with that you get the perks of working at some of the massive clients, which have huge reputation in the market

10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Forvis Mazars?

I would highly recommend anyone who is thinking of applying to Mazars is make sure you do some research in to the role you are applying for and then definitely some through research about Mazars itself as well. And make you are able to demonstrate how your personal goals align with Mazars.