{"id":16305,"date":"2021-01-21T10:16:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T09:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/?p=16305"},"modified":"2023-02-02T16:56:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:56:02","slug":"bens-placement-experience-at-savills-investment-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2021\/01\/21\/bens-placement-experience-at-savills-investment-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben’s placement experience at Savills Investment Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest blog by Ben Haskell, BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance<\/a> student who secured a placement with Savills Investment Management as a Group Finance Assistant.<\/p>\n

Who are Savills Investment Management and what did your role as Group Finance Assistant involve?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Savills Investment Management are a global real estate investment manager who invest funds of money on behalf of clients. My role was within the UK team, whereby I dealt with the accounting entries for the purchase and sales ledger, whilst completing monthly bank reconciliations and other tasks to aid reporting.<\/p>\n

What three words would you use to describe your placement search?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hard, challenging and a great experience.<\/p>\n

How did BU support your placement search?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I first drafted a CV before applying for placement positions, I then had meetings with Faculty Placement Co-ordinators from BU to help develop my CV until I was comfortable using it for applications.<\/p>\n

What were the hardest aspects\u00a0of your placement?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whilst on placement I had a lot of responsibility and multiple deadlines which I had to manage, especially at the end of the month, so juggling tasks to meet these deadlines was difficult.<\/p>\n

What were the most enjoyable aspects\u00a0of your placement?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working and learning from experienced people in the field, as well as having the opportunity to meet new people.<\/p>\n

Do you think you have changed personally and professionally?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I now know what to expect in working life and the challenges that I will face, professionally I have developed an understanding of how to conduct myself within a professional environment.<\/p>\n

What are your future career aspirations?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I will work towards my ACA chartered accounting qualification upon graduation at BU.<\/p>\n

Do you have any other advice you\u2019d like to offer students who are considering a placement?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would 100% recommend doing a placement. The skills and knowledge you learn is invaluable, and you gain experience which bolsters your CV. Even in my final year now, the knowledge I learned whilst on placement comes up in units, so it helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a guest blog by Ben Haskell, BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance student who secured a placement with Savills Investment Management as a Group Finance Assistant. Who are Savills Investment Management and what did your role as Group Finance Assistant involve? Savills Investment Management are a global real estate investment manager who invest funds… Read more » about Ben’s placement experience at Savills Investment Management<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":16307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,496,1644,798,12,1638],"tags":[844,977,312,1778],"class_list":["post-16305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accounting-finance-economics","category-ug-courses","category-employability","category-placements","category-student-blogs","category-undergraduate","tag-myplacementstory","tag-ba-hons-accounting-and-finance","tag-bu-placements","tag-career-advice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22053,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305\/revisions\/22053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}