Finance Industrial Placement Review

Item: Finance Industrial Placement at Unilever
Rating: 4.4
Author: Anonymous

at Unilever

Placement (10 Months+)

Accounting

Leatherhead

Review Submitted: August 2022

Overall Rating

4.4 /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

4.8/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.5/5 - 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.

Working with the brands to provide and monitor forecasts and support on the financial side of business cases for proposed products.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes after getting to know the team and settling in they were more than happy to let me lead on supporting a brand or complete monthly reporting activities

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?

Massively developed team working and communication, a lot of the role was about using the numbers to tell a story to someone not familiar with finance. Also excel and PowerPoint were key tools in doing so

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?

4/5

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, managers were more than happy to invest time to teach and Unilever has a massive online learning platform.

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?

Very relaxed and lacking of hierarchy, the focus was more on results. This meant that hours were quite flexible but you could end up working late to close a project but equally you could take those hours back and finish early another day.