Apprentice Finance Assistant Review
at Compass group
Level 3 Apprenticeship
Accounting
Milton Keynes
Review Submitted: April 2025
Overall Rating
4.8 /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!
4.5/5
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Overview of Role
5/5
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Skills Development
4.8/5
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Structure and Support
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
5/5
My role involves:
Reconciliation of sales/stock
Voids and refunds check
Closing the books for the week via Nexus
Daily sales email to various stakeholders
SAP - performing a reconciliation against the statement of accounts
SAP Business Network - ensuring clients have been invoiced via cloud based software.
Reconciliation of sales/stock
Voids and refunds check
Closing the books for the week via Nexus
Daily sales email to various stakeholders
SAP - performing a reconciliation against the statement of accounts
SAP Business Network - ensuring clients have been invoiced via cloud based software.
To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
4/5
I have enjoyed the program rather well, have a great supportive team who look out for another. Any queries or issues I have I am able to openly talk about the issue at hand creating an inclusive, comfortable environments. It can be a challenging role, but who doesn't like a challenge, allowing me to work harder to make the challenge to be less difficult.
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
5/5
Practical skills - having the ability to go through trial and error.
Soft skills such as: an improvement in communication, interacting with several different stakeholders.
Being able to escalate queries or issues at hand.
Hard skills - being able to use accounting software efficiently, analyzing data ensuring all is correct, skills on how to write as well as send an email.
Soft skills such as: an improvement in communication, interacting with several different stakeholders.
Being able to escalate queries or issues at hand.
Hard skills - being able to use accounting software efficiently, analyzing data ensuring all is correct, skills on how to write as well as send an email.
Structure and Support
How well organised/structured is your programme?
5/5
Its an organized program with a set timetable, which include dates/deadline period for different topics, doing so allows me to keep my self on track and organized to finish the apprenticeship in time.
How much support do you receive from your employer?
5/5
A lot of support is given to us as apprentices. We have various support available on our company website factors such as wellbeing support, perks at work and etc.. Again any queries and problems we may have regarding the apprenticeship or any other matter we can drop an email to the apprenticeship team, to which they will come back to us promptly with the relevant help.
How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?
5/5
How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?
4/5
The qualification not only allows me to be a qualified accountant, it provides me with knowledge and allows me to have a deeper understanding of my day to day activities.
Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)
5/5
Yes the staff here may organize a function or social event for all staff to attend after work.
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Compass group to a friend?
Yes
Why?
Great company, who not only support you as an individual, but there are various promotional opportunities for you as an apprentice, to progress.
What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Compass group?
A detailed, but concise CV is specifically important, when applying for a job, as this is you selling yourself to a company, also ensuring the CV to be organised, the simpler the better.
At the interview stage its important for you as an individual to remain calm and relaxed, do not prolong your answers, keep it concise and snappy. Make sure to smile and make the interviewer intrigued, by asking loads of questions towards the end of the apprenticeship, when prompted with the question do you have any questions, finally be yourself.
At the interview stage its important for you as an individual to remain calm and relaxed, do not prolong your answers, keep it concise and snappy. Make sure to smile and make the interviewer intrigued, by asking loads of questions towards the end of the apprenticeship, when prompted with the question do you have any questions, finally be yourself.
