Group Finance Summer Intern Review

Item: Group Finance Summer Intern at UBS
Rating: 4.6
Author: Anonymous

at UBS

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking, 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!

3/5 - Overview of Role

4.8/5 - Skills Development

4.5/5 - Support and Guidance

5/5 - Company Culture

4.5/5 - 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.

Part of UK Integration Team, whose aim is to supervise the smooth integration of Credit Suisse and UBS. On a daily basis, I follow my manager in all of her calls with different teams to provide/ask for updates regarding the integration process burden. Lots of time dedicated to make my project on Equity Derivatives and talk to people working with it. Many burocratic practises to upload and visual representations to create.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

I was assigned a project: very interesting from my side but no practical applications involved. Given responsibility of preparing some visual representation and elaboration of data to present to FMT members and to upload some burocratic weekly updates.
Given the chance to shadow around different divisions even

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

3/5

Skills Development

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

Hard skills : work on PowerBI (never used before), enhanced Power Point. Lots of information regarding the functioning of a banks division and on financial derivatives and structured products more specifically.
Soft Skills: collaboration and team work. Also presentation skills and art of be concise proves essential. Networking and professional social interactions are defintely of paramount importance

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?

4/5

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?

a lot, for real. Anyone in the bank has always been very available to help me in the best possible way, from the HR to all the managers but also all the people I had interactions with even across different teams or divisions

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?

4/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Being the first experience in the finance industry I was expecting a toxic and overly competitive athmosphere. I was surprised to see that it was actually not the case in this banks specificially. Culture and Support were great!

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

5/5

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 really liked the opportunities i was given throughout this internship. It was very helpful under many perspective. Throughout this stage I got more and more interested in another function inside the bank and I had the possibility to spend some time with them.
It wont be the job of my life but it made me realize a lot about my attitude and capability.