Finance Undergraduate Review

Item: Finance Undergraduate at Honda Motor Europe
Rating: 4.1
Author: Anonymous

at Honda Motor Europe

Placement (10 Months+)

Accounting

Bracknell

Review Submitted: June 2022

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!

5/5 - Overview of Role

4.8/5 - Skills Development

4.5/5 - Support and Guidance

3.3/5 - 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.

During month end; day to day procedures included running cost centre reports, holding SGA meetings and discussing monthly budgeting and spendings. Posting of accruals and journals would be the result of these meetings to make sure accurate spendings would be reported. On an ad hoc daily basis other finance activities such as reconicilations and data uploads would be done.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

I was given an immense amount of responsibility within this role. I was holding monthly meetings with senior managers discussing the budgeting and SGAs within their cost centres. I was also pulling month end reports and stats which the SVPs would view.

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?

The main skill that was improved was my interpersonal and sociable skills. Through month end meetings and liasing with stakeholders conversing in a personable but professional manner was crucial. I was speaking with some employees who were very senior and portraying myself as a credible collegue was important.
The second skill I was able to improve majorly were my Excel skills. Through reporting and general accountning practices my Excel skills are advanced now.

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?

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 was given an immense about of support during my placement from my manager, other team members as well as other placement students. Honda is a company that values relationships not only as a company with their customers but also within the company between internal stakeholders.

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

4/5

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?

Honda's culture is very much based on relationships not only between the company and customers but also within the company between internal stakeholders. The company is revolved around the 3 joys - as employees at Honda we want to enjoy our work, our customers want to enjoy our products and all together we want to enjoy the success in our brand and products.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

2/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

2/5

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?

The best part about placement was the people I got meet - the other undergrads as well as the internal stakeholders within the business. Everyone was welcoming and motivated to teach me new things which made placement a enjoying experience despite the work being challenging at times.