Financial Accounting Intern Review

I would complete multiple daily actions whilst working at BMW. These include things such as when I was on the BMW suspense account, I would reconcile all transactions within each account from the previous day on a daily basis. I would also complete reloads, right to withdrawals and reactivations for financed agreements. Alongside this, I would also be looking at the balance sheet and completing reconciliations for them in preparation for the month end process.

Yes, my manager was aware that I was only here for a short time (3 months) instead of the traditional year long interns. And I mentioned to them before that I wanted to do as many different tasks as possible to really experience what it was like working here in their team. As a result, I was given multiple different daily activities to complete as well as also other tasks during the month end process.

I have learned a lot in such a short space of time. Whether this is just improving my efficiency with finding shortcuts on excel or even program's I have never even used before like seal and IFT, to actually learning and putting into practice my knowledge of accounting and finance from the modules I have been learning at University. I will also gain a SAF expert qualification throughout my time on this internship.

I had meetings with my line manager around every month and I also had a mentor who was in my team whilst on my internship. We would arrange a meeting every couple of weeks. But it wasn't if I was stuck I could only go to my mentor, all of my team was extremely helpful including my line manager and if I was ever stuck or had a question they were only a desk or email away.

It was very flexible in terms of how they offered hybrid working where i was only required to go into the offices twice a week. As well as this, they offered flexible working hours which was also very beneficial as it meant if I had a doctors appointment or something else that meant I would be busy in the day a little bit then it wouldn't be an issue as long as i made the time up.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience as I have learned lots of new skills whilst working here. It has also set a high standard of working conditions for my future career path wherever that may take me. Not only this, but i really did enjoy learning all of the different tasks and responsibilities people had within my team as I didn't really know what to expect as i had only done a couple accounting and finance modules whilst at university so seeing everything go into practice was really enjoyable for me to experience.

Yes