Consultant Review

Leveraging technology to create insights and analyse data. Also involves process such as data cleansing, creating apps, visualisations to help organisations manage their risks and controls effectively. Responsibilities include communicating on a day to day basis with managers to ensure they are kept in the loop with work and timelines.

Through this job, my technical abilities have improved in terms of app development, data visualisation and at the same time project management skills. This includes time management, communication, and teamwork for managing these type of projects. On top of this, my soft skills are slowly starting to develop as I progress in my apprenticeship.

I am enjoying the programme to a great extent, mainly because of the amount of networking I have been able to do over the course I have been here. This includes meeting people ranging from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and also people who are different levels in their career journey.

When I first started off, it was quite unclear how the programme will unfold, however soon realised that it has been well thought out by the programme leads in terms of how we will do our learning and balance work at the same time. University could be better as we do not have much in person days.

As much as I have had to do a lot by myself and just get on with it without any support, there have been times where support has been offered by the management team. We have counsellors however this is not well thought out as sometimes they can end up being your engagement manager.

My training provider provides lectures and training material in order to prepare us for our assignments which in turn is the main aspect of gaining the qualification.

I would say to a lesser extent in my role, mainly because the content we cover in university for our qualification is much more advanced in terms of the programmes that we learn it for. For example, we use the likes of power apps for code to develop apps, however we are taught javascript, python etc.

We have regular lunches with the team as well as regular catchup sessions with the whole department. In terms of sports teams, this has been raised as something we want to do as this is something that occurs in other offices throughout the company. We are thinking of Football, rugby, Badminton etc.

Yes

I feel like EY is a place which, although a lot of pressure, one has the tools and facilities to grow their technical ability, their soft skills, and also their personality.

Practice makes perfect. That is the only piece of advice. Do your research, make connections earlier on, even throughout the application process, and ensure that you are well prepared for interviews. Be confident, be brave, genuinely show you are interested if that is the case. Be inquisitive, be different, try your hardest.