Technical Risk Analyst Review

Item: Technical Risk Analyst at Lloyds Banking Group
Rating: 4.1
Author: Anonymous

at Lloyds Banking Group

Placement (10 Months+)

Commercial Banking

Edinburgh

Review Submitted: May 2024

Overall Rating

4.1 /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!

4/5 - Overview of Role

4.3/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4/5 - Company Culture

3.5/5 - Overall Experience

4/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

- Completing regular Ad Hoc analysis tasks when requested by senior leadership.
This may include many stages of data transformaion using SAS coding skills, Excel data manipulation and PowerBI data visualisation.
- Chances to present this kind of work to team members/ senior managers.
- Preparing, developing and presenting monthly MI reports to team members.
- Contact with other stakeholders e.g: Relationship Management, Infrastructure Decisioning, Data Science to gather common understandings and objectives.
- Opportunities to hold or take part in Charity Events
- Opportunities to see other areas of the bank so it is easier to understand what Lloyds have to offer

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

4/5

Skills Development

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

SAS, SQL coding languages- useful for data manipulation
Excel skills
PowerBI data visualisation skills
soft skills: Presenting, howe to deal with different characters within a workspace

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?

4/5

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?

I had regular contactr/ check-ins with my line manager who was very supportive and approachable. I haven't heard of anyone having a different experience to that

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?

Positive atmosphere. Not everyone knows everyon though due to the scale of the company. I maybe would've preferred to wokr in a smaller cooperation. You'll definitely be the youngest too.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

4/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

2/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

5/5

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

5/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

I believe I got everything ut of it that I expected. Some parts were slow, however I think that has to be expected when joining a big company as an intern