Finance Apprentice Review

My responsibility in my current team is to take care of my daily critical tasks and some larger tasks. These include: Posting invoices from our suppliers and retailers, answering queries from our retailers, checking changes made to our retailer accounts, creating journals, uploading journals, and investigating aged amounts. I interact with my close team and wider teams within VWFS such as Fleet ad Rent-A-Car and other teams within finance. I have moved across a two teams now so have seen the processes from two sides. My roles with both teams have given me an insight of smaller parts or a much larger processes.

We had quite an unlucky run with changing of teachers, amongst other things, but the class stayed on track and the majority of us finished the programme early. I have a few resits to complete but the structure of my work aligning with my studies has worked really well.

I have received so much support from my employer. I got quite unlucky with my first exams and have had a few resits to complete. Not once have they made me feel like this is an issue, and have kept up to date with my progress and made adjustments to my work to alleviate some stress. This has allowed me to channel a lot more into my studies.

I have received a lot of support and attention following a few failed exams. My college has stayed on with tutoring me through the exams, after a lot of my classmates have moved on, and have paid close attention to my progress. This has made such a difference in my understanding and overall enjoyment with my course.

I think my qualification allows me to understand a lot of the fundamental aspects of my job, in both teams I have been in, this has helped me understand the background to what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I think without the fundamental knowledge of what I'm doing, I would definitely struggle with the 'Why?'

Yes

I feel very secure here. Even though its a large company, I feel valued in my team and by the wider teams, and feel as though my role in important. I am treated very well and feel as though there are multiple opportunities for my to move forward in my career, in whatever direction I chose.