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Financial accounts associate Review

by Samsung Electronics

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Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    3.8
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Key Objectives: 鈥 To play an intergral role within both the internal & external company audits 鈥 To take ownership of specific shared costs for the company and develop a more efficient process for their computation and allocation Key Responsibilities: 鈥 Management of deliverables for quarterly and annual external audits 鈥 Internal audit preparation and involvement including fixed assets 鈥 Production of monthly / quarterly computations to allocate shared costs across the business 鈥 Preparation of resulting 鈥減osting templates鈥 for SEUK鈥檚 outsourced AP team 鈥 Balance sheet reconciliations and clear down 鈥 Preparation of monthly WEEE [Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment] declaration for submission in line with the EU directive 鈥 Communication with head office and local business operations to fulfil compliance work 鈥 Impact assessment of changes or updates in Accounting Standards 鈥 Opportunity for cross-training and development within the Financial Accounting Team


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Key Competencies & characteristics Essential Hard Skills: 鈥 Undertaking a degree in Accounting or similar 鈥 Ideally exposure to SAP or equivalent accounting software 鈥 Strong academics 鈥 strong degree 鈥 Proficient MS Office user Essential Soft skills 鈥 High Attention to detail 鈥 Proactive approach 鈥 Highly organised 鈥 Team player 鈥 Hard working 鈥 Enthusiastic 鈥 Flexible 鈥 Good communicator and relationship builder 鈥 Strong integrity and ethical behaviour 鈥 Strong analytical and problem solving skills 鈥 Ability to grasp new concepts easily and apply these to their daily work


  • 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

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes I was given real world responsibilities that affected the day to day of the business


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • Emerging talent team were always available and felt like I was able to turn to them


  • 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

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Very casual, fast paced. Some departments get preferential treatment


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 3/5

  • 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?
  • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • 8/10


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 5/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Samsung Electronics
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Samsung Electronics to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Samsung Electronics
  • Makes you very employable for the future


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Accounting

London

June 2024


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