Intern Trainee - Real Estate Finance Review

Item: Intern Trainee - Real Estate Finance at NatWest Group
Rating: 4.6
Author: Anonymous

at NatWest Group

Internship (1 Month+)

Finance

London

Review Submitted: August 2024

Overall Rating

4.6 /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

5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4/5 - Company Culture

5/5 - Overall Experience

5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

Research on customer information and deal-specific requirements
Writing minutes for meetings
Writing Sightings papers
Performing cashflows on proposed deals
Contacting customers, client calls

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes, was tasked to take minutes during Sightings and client meetings, attended in person client meetings, dealt with sensitive data and deals, the research I did was used by higher ups to make their funding decision, I wrote a press article

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?

Have developed communication skills, research skills, technical skills. improved my confidence, teamwork skills

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

5/5

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?

5/5

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 received a lot of guidance from my line manager and my whole team who was very supportive. Thy included me in projects, had discussions with me around technical questions, showed me around the systems, even took me on site visits with them

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?

Everyone I interacted with was supportive, patient, and inclusive even if I had less experience than them. I was not treated differently

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?

5/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

I really enjoyed my internship more than I thought I would because of the culture, structure of the internship, support from EC and team aswell as learning opportunities up until the last day