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Volkswagen Financial Services

Accounts Specialist Review

at Volkswagen Financial Services

Placement (10 Months+)

Accounting

Milton Keynes

Review Submitted: May 2025

Overall Rating

4.5 /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
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.
I work with analysing customer accounts and particularly in writing off money from those accounts for whatever the reason may be. Day to day taks can involve helping to resolve issues with invoices not being properly uploaded to the accounting software to checking if a refund is due or not.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
No, I would say that there was some degree of responsibility with my role such as if I made a mistake there could have been a refund made to the wrong account but compared to the responsibility of others in my team I would say mine is less.
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?
I have become a lot more proficient in using Excel, having learnt things such as pivot tables and also V and X lookups, I have a better understanding of how to Microsoft. I also think my personal skills such as presenting and management skills have improved.
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 think I received a lot of support and guidance, any new task I learnt I would always have someone helping me or guiding me on how to do it. And the team was very friendly in general so would always be more than happy to help if I got stuck on a particular task.
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?
Company culture and atmosphere is great, the people in my team and people around the business that I have interacted with are all friendly and helpful. The company culture is chill in the sense that everyone in my opinion at least are very easy to talk to and no one really looks down on you on the questions you may have.
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?
4/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
4/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I have thoroughly enjoyed my placement, especially the people that I have worked with have been super helpful and fell like they have helped me progress my business skills such as presenting and confidence in meetings. I would say the work does get repetitive after awhile.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5

Future Career Prospects

Please rate the future employment prospects at Volkswagen Financial Services
3/5

Recommendations & Advice

Would you recommend Volkswagen Financial Services to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Volkswagen Financial Services
To make sure that the role is something you are potentially inclined to do in the first place.
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