Commercial Analyst Review

Item: Commercial Analyst at Centrica
Rating: 4.2
Author: Anonymous

at Centrica

Internship (1 Month+)

Business Operations

Windsor / London

Review Submitted: August 2023

Overall Rating

4.2 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

5/5 - Overview of Role

4.5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

3.5/5 - Company Culture

4.5/5 - Overall Experience

3/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

Performing pricing analysis for ongoing projects, and preparing longer term research presentations for market entry studies / policy research.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Two individual projects with full ownership of research output, presented to senior stakeholders. Analysis work was used on live projects.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

5/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

Excel, presenting, project management, market sizing.

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

4/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

5/5

How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

4/5

Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

5/5

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

Manager and wider team I was working in were really helpful, and I was confident in their support for me during my placement. Early careers team provided externally hired training that added little value and took up quite a lot of time at the start and middle of internship, required travel into Windsor office.

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

5/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

5/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Very supportive culture. Line manager and team were very receptive to different working styles. People were really supportive.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

3/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

3/5

How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

3/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

Really enjoyed the work and my team. Early careers HR can be quite over enthusiastic with training and charity work, which has really good intentions but is quite slow and takes up 2 of the 9 week internship. The content of these weeks could easily be slimmed down into 2 or 3 days.