20th – 22nd June 2022

Financial Services & Consulting

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Welcome to
Internship Experience UK 2022 –
Financial Services & Consulting
Here at Bright Network, our mission is to connect the next generation with the opportunities, insights and
advice to succeed as the workforce of tomorrow – that’s why we’re delighted to be running Internship Experience UK.

Since its inception, Internship Experience UK has successfully supported over 100,000 students and recent graduates to boost their
employability and gain experience. Designed as a unique springboard into careers, the experience allows students to supercharge
their CV with a staggering 10,000 students and grads having secured roles with the connections they made at Internship Experience
UK. For 2022, we’ve re-designed the programme to maximise connectivity as we bring together more graduate employers,
educational institutions, students and graduates than ever before.

We know that this unique three-day experience will have a lasting impact on your career path and equip you with skills for the future.
We are thrilled to provide you with invaluable work experience, allowing you to develop your skill set, make new connections and
provide you with opportunities to help you to build towards a career you’ll truly love.

Kirsten & the Bright Network Team

About Bright Network

Bright Network is a careers network that uses data and technology to connect its 600,000+
members with over 250 employers including Google, Accenture, HSBC, PwC and Slaughter and
May. The company’s partner firms find the talent they need to grow their businesses and help
students from diverse backgrounds fulfill their potential. The network’s unique member model
provides the UK’s best and brightest graduates, irrespective of their background, with the
highest quality careers advice and support through a digital platform, dynamic events and
personalised one-on-one advice.

Kirsten Barnes
Platform CEO
Bright Network

Kirsten Barnes is Bright Network’s CEO for the organisation’s core platform business.
With over 10 years’ experience in the emerging talent market, Kirsten joined
Bright Network with a focus on building out a strong, consultative team to support
organisations innovatively and effectively engage Gen-Z. Kirsten is passionate
about DEIB, placing Bright Network’s members at the heart of everything the
organisation does, advocating that opportunity should be accessible to all young
people, regardless of their background.

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Bright Network hosts
Katie Fenton Phil Yarrow
Account Manager Careers and Community Manager
Bright Network Bright Network

Katie joined the Bright Network Team in July 2019, following two Phil has been part of the Bright Network Team for the last 4.5 years. He
years working in marketing and communications in the higher started out greeting students at the 2018 BN Festival, and went on to join
education sector. our Talent Team. From there Phil spent the majority of his time as part of the
Talent Solutions Team. Here, he specialised in helping members navigate
After two years of working closely with students, she was keen
the application process, and supporting clients in meeting their recruitment
to make a tangible difference for graduates, helping them
objectives. As of April this year, Phil moved to become part of The Bright
make the first step from university into a career that they are
Network Tech Academy. Phil was lucky enough to be a host on the inaugural
passionate about. Today, she is a member of the Commerical
IEUK in 2020, and is glad (and a little relieved) to be asked back!
Team at Bright Network, looking after our existing employer
partnerships and advising them on how to access the best talent Prior to joining Bright Network, Phil has a varied CV. He has presented
across the network. and facilitated events for companies such as Mars, Eon, EY and The Times
Educational Supplement. He is passionate about empowering others, and is
a Public Speaking tutor.

Hopin navigation
Hopin areas: The left hand menu lists the
areas of the event that Bright Network has set up:

Reception: Think of the Reception area as a

venue’s lobby, it’s the information hub.

Stages: Here you will see two stages. Go to the Reception Peer Networking
Internship Experience UK 2022 Main Stage for the
keynote and skills session, and go to the sector
specific stage for the sector 101, specialist sessions,
graduate panel and work sample sessions.

Graduate Office Hour: This is where graduate

Stages Company Info & Help
office hours will take place with representatives
from each of the partner firms. Drop by any booth
to ask a question using the booth-specific chat.

Peer Networking: Where participants can meet

each other one-on-one during the event.
Graduate Office Hour Comms Chat
Company Info & Help: Here you will find further
details about all the employers across the six IEUK
streams and the Bright Network Help Desk.
For any questions about the event, navigating
the platform or to talk to a Bright Network
member of staff, please head to the Bright
Network Student Help Desk.

Chat: Important event updates and content links For further guidance, please see our full Hopin guide and FAQs.
will be pinned here by event organisers. There is
a general Comms chat, as well as a separate chat
For further questions, please go to Company Info & Help and click on the
channel for each area of the platform, such as
Graduate Office Hour. Bright Network Student Help Desk. Bright Network staff will be happy to help.

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Our partner firms

P R E M I E R PA R T N E R

We’re a professional services organisation that helps companies make better decisions about business,
finance and technology. How? By asking better questions that help us all in building a better working world.
With 300,000 extraordinary people in more than 150 countries, working across four key business areas –
Assurance, Consulting, Strategy and Transactions, and Tax. And, as a motivated and passionate member of
our team, you’ll have a personal impact – no matter which business area you join. You’ll help business and
communities to thrive, while you thrive in a place where you belong. You’ll have the opportunity to make
your career your own, building opportunities for yourself. Project You. It’s yours to build.

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S K I L L S PA R T N E R S

ICAEW are a global professional body who offer the internationally Our purpose – to build trust in society and solve important
recognised ACA qualification for chartered accountants. There are problems – is more relevant than ever. PwC is committed to helping
more than 1.8m chartered accountants and students around the clients and communities address current and future challenges.
world and 189,500 are members and students of ICAEW. ICAEW At PwC, graduates and undergraduates can expect to be part of
is proud to be part of Chartered Accountants Worldwide, a global a stimulating environment working on challenging projects in a
network of 750,000 members across 190 countries, which promotes culture that embraces difference. No matter what your degree or
the expertise and skills of chartered accountants on a global basis. background, we have a range of roles where your impact matters.
We attract talented individuals into the profession and give them the Join us in Actuarial, Audit, Consulting, Deals, Legal, Risk Assurance,
skills and values they need to build resilient businesses, economies Tax or Technology. It’s a new world, ready for your new skills.
and societies, while ensuring our planet’s resources are managed Explore. Inspire. Reimagine.
sustainably.

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As a global tech leader, Vodafone transforms lives and businesses At WTW, we provide data-driven, insight-led solutions in the areas
around the world. From developing pioneering IoT technology, to of people, risk and capital. Leveraging the global view and local
making holographic calls using 5G, to our DreamLab app enabling expertise of our colleagues serving 140 countries and markets, we
people to speed up vital cancer research whilst sleeping, we connect help you sharpen your strategy, enhance organizational resilience,
millions of people to endless possibilities. Take the future into motivate your workforce and maximize performance. Working
your own hands. We’ve never stopped looking for new and better shoulder to shoulder with you, we uncover opportunities for
ways forward. Whatever your degree background, we’ll empower sustainable success – and provide perspective that moves you.
you to do the same. If you love to dream big, learn from brilliant
mistakes and use your skills to empower others, we could have the
programme for you.

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G O L D PA R T N E R S

Alfa Systems is at the heart of some of the world’s largest and most Alpha is the leading global consultancy to the asset and wealth
innovative asset finance companies. Supporting all types of auto, management industry. We are a boutique management consulting
equipment and wholesale finance business, Alfa Systems is an firm that has worked with 80% of the top 30 top asset managers
enterprise-level application developed using leading-edge digital globally. At Alpha, we pride ourselves on delivering high quality client
technologies to deliver proven functionality and performance. Our projects. Our people are at the heart of Alpha, and so we value work-
customers use Alfa Systems to administer both retail and corporate life balance. Our focus on providing a social, diverse and cohesive
business, from point of sale, through originations, to contract environment is at the core of our culture and to facilitate this, our
management and remarketing. Alfa Systems manages both high- vibrant firm offers several benefits. These include wellbeing-focussed
volume transactions and complex leases and loans, in any region, initiatives, company-paid summer trips, Mentor / Mentee events,
language and currency. Our work covers the development of the peer-group activities and a comprehensive training offering.
Alfa Systems product and the extensive consulting support required
to assist the client from project inception through to successful
implementation. Our innovative software leads the industry in
functional scope, performance and user experience, but sacrifices
nothing in terms of reliability.

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BDO is one of the UK’s largest accountancy and business advisory We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human
firms. We are a major global player in our industry and take pride future in a technology-driven world. As strategies, technologies and
in being the kind of positive people our clients want to do business innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our diverse
with; engaged and passionate providers of exceptional client teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough
service. Integrity is at the heart of everything we do and we take the use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and
same pride in growing your career. Working with a wide range of transform, and together we achieve enduring results. An innovation
clients, from entrepreneurial enterprises to multinational groups, and transformation consultancy, we are 3,300 specialists in consumer
you’ll get plenty of opportunities to develop your skills. At BDO, and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities,
you can be yourself. You can have confidence that you are part of financial services, government and public services, health and
an organisation with purpose, where you’ll have variety and the life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators,
opportunity to build your career path alongside people who will help designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and
you succeed. technologists. We operate globally from offices across the UK, US,
Netherlands and Nordics. PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

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N E T WO R K I N G PA R T N E R S

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading Baillie Gifford is one of the UK’s leading independently owned
capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched investment management firms. It is owned and run by 47 of its
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, senior executives who operate as a partnership, a structure which
we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and has endured for over a century and which provides stability for
Operations services — all powered by the world’s largest network clients and motivation for employees. It enables us to manage the
of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our business for the future as well as the present, with the emphasis
624,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human on genuine long-term thinking rather than short-term targets.
ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We Today, our assets under management and advice are £352 billion,
embrace the power of change to create value and shared success a sizeable figure but one achieved by steady organic growth rather
for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. than by merger or acquisition. Inquisitive. Always questioning and
exploring. Ever curious about our world and how it works. That’s us.
A group of people with different ideas and different outlooks whose
contributions are valued – whatever their level or role in the business.
From our shared beliefs to our focus on diversity and inclusion, find
out what a career at Baillie Gifford could look like.

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Learning timetable Financial Services
20th – 22nd June 2022 & Consulting

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

9:00am Onboarding & networking 9:00am Session 1 9:00am Firm upskilling

hat to expect from a
W Presentation skills
career as a tax advisor

9:15am Welcome from

Bright Network + keynote
from Tim Campbell 9:30am Session 2 9:30am Working time
From Audit to ESG

9:30am Optional session

Morning workout
10:00am Skills session 1 and mindfulness
Developing a 10:00am Break
winning mindset in
your early career

10:30am Skills session 2 10:30am Session 3

Nailing commercial A typical Alfa project
awareness

11:00am Session 4
11:00am Break onsulting and ESG –
C
Lifecyle of a project

11:30am Skills session 3

11:30am Session 5
etworking
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conversations to aving Pret’s bacon
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shape your future post COVID

12:00pm One-on-one networking 12:00pm Lunch

12:30pm Graduate office hours

12:30pm Lunch

1:00pm Work sample debrief

1:30pm Firm upskilling

1:30pm Break 1:30pm Work sample marking/
Transferable skills reflection (deadline 2:30pm)

2:00pm Firm upskilling

Preparing for 2:00pm Work sample intro 2:00pm Peer to peer feedback
interviews and
interview techniques

2:30pm Break 2:30pm Working time 2:30pm Firm upskilling

CV & application
advice

Closing &
3:00pm
3:00pm Sector 101 congratulations
Financial Services &
Consulting – Assurance

3:30pm Optional session

Wellness sesh
with Jess

4:00pm Graduate panel

5:00pm Closing for day 1

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Agenda
Day 1

9:00am Onboarding and networking Reception and Peer Networking

9:15am Bright Network welcome Main Stage

Kirsten Barnes Phil Yarrow

Platform CEO Careers and Community Manager
Bright Network Bright Network

Keynote Main Stage

Tim Campbell
Future Talent and Regional Head Africa
OSTC

Tim is a passionate and recognised advocate of talent and inclusion. With a focus on Education, Empowerment and
Entrepreneurship, he has established a ground-breaking charitable foundation, currently chairs an outstanding school board and
regularly speaks on these topics at conferences and after dinner events internationally. This has led him to his most recent activity
as Regional Head of Africa and Trading Futures lead for the recently voted best Proprietary Trading company in 2020, OSTC Group
and Diversity and Inclusion strategic advisor for global talent acquisition company AMS. Tim has also been appointed as the latest
advisor to Lord Alan Sugar on the BBC One show The Apprentice, sitting alongside Baroness Karren Brady.

Tim is an established and in-demand motivational Public Speaker having spoken at various global events, hosted international
conferences and represented the UK Government and the City of London on business delegations. Tim is a commercially aware,
business savvy and conscientious leader with a record of adding value and successfully supporting the government’s now labelled
‘Levelling Up’ agenda having been a selected small business and social enterprise advisor.

Tim is married to his teenage sweetheart, has two children and is a keen fitness enthusiast who is either running, cycling, lifting or
trying to keep up with the next generation of Muay Thai boxers.

10:00am Skills session 1 Main Stage

Developing a winning mindset in your early career

After almost a decade of working with graduates, supporting them to achieve their potential, Ben Triggs shares his
10 key tips to support you through the application and as you start in the working world. You’ll gain key ideas on what’s
important to really impress employers and get ahead quicker.

Ben Triggs
Marketing Director
Bright Network

After graduating with a History degree from the University of Southampton, Ben has worked for eight years with university
students helping them make the best educational and career related decisions. As Marketing Director at Bright Network, he’s
focused on upskilling Bright Network members, developing essential initiatives to provide opportunities for all and ensuring
students receive the tailored support they require throughout their early career.

10:30am
Skills session 2 Main Stage

Nailing commercial awareness

Commercial awareness is a non-negotiable when getting ahead in your career, but what does it mean, how do you
develop it and how do you showcase it? We’ll be exploring these topics, and chatting through a toolkit for nailing
commercial awareness in applications, interviews and early careers.

Elspeth Coates-Gibson
Chief Commercial Officer
Appointedd

Elspeth is Chief Commercial Officer at Appointedd, the world’s smartest online booking system. Working alongside a wonderful
team, Elspeth oversees partnerships, marketing and sales for this leading Edinburgh scale-up. With over ten years experience
working in commercial roles, Elspeth is passionate about working consultatively with clients to understand business challenges
and creatively solve and address these in an innovative and forward thinking way. Having pivoted career paths on a couple of
occasions, Elspeth is passionate about supporting and encouraging future talent to realise their potential.

11:00am Break

11:30am
Skills session 3 Main Stage

Networking conversations to shape your future

The best things in life begin with a conversation: the best stories, best friendships, best opportunities. In this session,
we’ll take a look at some key top tips for making the most of those first interactions.

Tahmid Chowdhury
Senior Account Director, M&C Saatchi World Services
Co-Founder, Here for Good Law

Tahmid is a Senior Account Director at MCS World Services, a specialist communications agency that harnesses the power
of cutting-edge marketing to tackle some of humanity’s most challenging problems. In 2020, he was named on the Forbes
30 Under 30 list, recognising his work in co-founding Here for Good Law, a charity providing free legal services to vulnerable
European migrants in the aftermath of Brexit and more recently the war in Ukraine. Tahmid has a passion for social mobility
and sits on several charities’ boards, including TASO and The Access Project.

12:00pm One-on-one networking Peer Networking

12:30pm Lunch

1:30pm
Firm upskilling Main Stage

Transferable skills
This session is all about transferable skills – the skills you don’t realise you have! We will go through what we mean by
transferable skills and why they are important for young people! We will then give you some useful insight into the skills
employers are looking for! We will identify your relevant achievements that are ideally linked to the requirements of a
job you may be applying for in order to put yourself in the strongest position. Finally at the end of session we will have a
short Q&A for any questions.

Harvey Smith Ruby Eaves

Early Careers Executive Early Careers Executive
ICAEW ICAEW

Harvey is an Early Careers Executive at ICAEW. In his role, Ruby has just recently joined the ICAEW as an Early Careers
he speaks to thousands of students and employers across Executive. She is very ambitious in life and passionate about
the whole of the UK, engaging with them about how to helping others achieve their future career goals. This became
improve their employability and shares his knowledge about a passion of hers because she went to university for 8 months
the ACA qualification. Harvey spent 3 years at university and decided that university wasn’t the right fit for her. Therefore,
and is knowledgeable about uni life and how it helped him Ruby’s role as an Early Careers Executive is to raise awareness of
make career choices. He is passionate about sharing his the ACA qualification and different routes into this profession.
experiences and the various job roles he had during his
studies and post grad.

2:00pm
Firm upskilling Main Stage

Preparing for interviews and interview techniques

In this session you’ll build your interview skills. Whether it be how to prepare for an interview, or refining your interview
technique, PwC will share top tips and hints to help you succeed at the interview stage of any recruitment process.
The interactive session will talk you through the necessary areas to research beforehand, what it means to have commercial
awareness, and how to make your answers as impactful as possible.

Jayna Gadhia
Student Recruitment Senior Associate
PwC

Jayna joined PwC in 2021 and is a Student Recruitment Senior Associate in London. Her role includes attracting, recruiting
and supporting talented individuals through PwC’s Internships and Graduate Programmes. She predominantly looks after
Strategy and Economic Consulting but has over 5 years of experience working across all lines of service.

2:30pm Break

3:00pm
Sector 101 Sector Stream Stage

Financial services & consulting – assurance

Find out more about our largest service-line in EY – Assurance. Hear from James Harris who is an Audit partner
based in Southampton, and Maryam Hussain who is a partner in our Forensics and Integrity services team
about their roles, career journeys, and why Assurance at EY is a great place to start your career.

Maryam Hussain James Harris

Partner – Forensic & Integrity Services Assurance Partner
EY EY

Maryam has been investigating large scale fraud and James is a Partner at EY, providing audit and other
corruption in the public and private sector for over 20 years. assurance services to a portfolio of clients. He leads EY
Working with her team of forensic professionals at EY, Southampton’s Audit business, serving businesses across
Maryam has led diverse investigations in 25 countries – from the South Coast region. James joined EY on the graduate
tracing USD 0.5 Billion of development funding intended training programme in 2003 following a successful Summer
for one of the poorest counties in the world to investigating Internship in 2002 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant
mis-selling of financial products by retail banks in the UK. in 2006. He has travelled the globe working on audits
Maryam is the author of the book “Corporate Fraud: The with a range of clients, with the notable highlight being a
Human Factor” and a frequent speaker at Business Schools 2 year secondment living and working in California and is
(INSEAD, European School of Management and Technology passionate about attracting talent and continuing their
(Berlin), and University of Oxford). She serves on the board development through the opportunities EY can offer as a
of the Finance and Audit Committee of Transparency global organisation. Outside of work James is married to
International in the UK. Louise, living in Winchester with their 3 young children.

4:00pm
Graduate panel Sector Stream Stage

Alexander Burr Elena Puente

Technology Consulting Analyst Finance Graduate
Accenture ICAEW

Alex is an A2 analyst aligned to Accenture SONG. Alex Elena graduated from The University of Sheffield in 2020
joined Accenture in March 2021 after graduating from The and studied French and Economics. During her time at
University of Bath with a First Class Honours in Business university she did a few ambassador roles and volunteered
Administration. Alex is passionate about digital marketing in different charities. She went on her year abroad to do
and data analytics, having studied related modules at some teaching (British Council Teaching Assistant) and
university. In his current role he has been able to apply both was placed in a little town called Briancon. When she came
his passions and strengths, working with diverse teams to back to uni to finish her fourth year she started applying to
deliver and monitor the results of end-to-end campaign and different jobs, and soon after graduating she interviewed
digital marketing experiments. Alex is really excited to be on with Hays for the Finance Graduate role!
the panel and share his experiences!

David Ward Nyasha Mteta

Graduate Trainee – Business Operations Investments Analyst
Baillie Gifford WTW

David Ward is one of the Business Operations Nyasha is a BSc (Hons) Economics and Business Finance
Graduates at Baillie Gifford. Graduating in International graduate currently working as an Investment Analyst at
Management & French from the University of Bath, David WTW. Nyasha has previously completed internships in
joined the graduate scheme in September 2020. Since private equity and investment banking.
arriving, he has done his fair share of rotating around the
business, completing department-specific secondments,
as well as taking on firm-wide project roles. This year, he
also had the opportunity to Chair Baillie Gifford’s LGBT+
Network; a role he’s found incredibly rewarding. Outside
of work, David is a keen baker and makes a mean lemon
meringue pie. David also does his best to get to the gym…
to work off said lemon meringue pie.

5:00pm Closing for day 1 Sector Stream Stage

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Agenda
Day 2

9:00am
Session 1 Sector Stream Stage

What to expect from a career as a tax advisor

This presentation aims to provide an insight into what to expect (and what to enjoy) from a career as a tax adviser,
covering the following:
What do we mean when we talk about working in tax, and why is tax increasingly a high priority area for businesses?
Our experience of working in Corporate International Tax and Indirect Tax.
Routes into a tax career, including details on professional qualifications and work/study options.
A ‘typical’ day for a tax adviser.
Wider opportunities for those working in tax.

Chris Beatie Daisy Boughtflower

Indirect Tax Associate Tax Director
BDO BDO

Chris is an Associate working in BDO’s Indirect Tax team, Daisy is a Tax Director in BDO’s Corporate International Tax
based out of the Reading office. He joined BDO on the team based in London. Daisy has worked for BDO for 10 years
graduate training programme in 2019 and is due to qualify and holds both ACA and CTA qualifications. She provides
as a Charted Tax Advisor later this year. He advises on corporate tax advisory services to multinational groups
international indirect tax issues, with clients ranging from in a wide range of sectors, advising on cross-border M&A
large betting and gaming operators and pharmaceutical transactions, group reorganisations and refinancings, and UK
companies to not-for-profits and FinTech start-ups. outbound/inbound investments.

9:30am
Session 2 Sector Stream Stage

From audit to ESG

This session will explore how a career in Audit can open doors to working in ESG or sustainability. Ollie started his career at PwC
in Audit and is now working on very important environmental projects. In this session he will share his journey and offer advice
for how you could follow the same path.

Ollie Law
ESG Reporting Specialist
PwC

Oliver is a chartered accountant and he leads the review of Strategic and Governance reports within the Annual Report,
he benchmarks these against competitors and provides feedback to management on areas of consideration as well as the
latest market trends in Corporate Reporting. More recently, Oliver has been leading the response on the rapidly evolving
ESG reporting regulations.

10:00pm Break

10:30am
Session 3 Sector Stream Stage

A typical Alfa project

This session will cover what it means to be a Fin Tech Consultant. Helen and Basheer will take you through the kinds of
projects they work on as Fin Tech Consultants and the kind of skills you would need to be successful in the role.

Helen Gallagher Basheer Shonuga

Senior Solution Engineer Consultant
Alfa Systems Alfa Systems

After graduating from the University of Edinburgh with an Basheer joined Alfa as a graduate in 2019 after completing
MEng in Electronics and Bioelectronics Helen moved to an integrated master’s in Chemical Engineering at the
London to start the graduate program at Alfa. Her career University of Nottingham. His career at Alfa began in a
started as a software engineer for Alfa’s internal solutions software consulting role where he worked on various
and product engineering teams. After a few years she then client projects. Basheer now works in the Support team
decided to do a secondment out in Australia, working for – this involves working closely with both the clients and
Alfa’s 24/7 support team where she developed more client development teams to address often urgent technical
facing skills as well as being exposed to high severity issues and functional issues or queries in live versions of Alfa.
for clients operating all over the world. Near the end of her In addition to this, Basheer is involved in various Alfa
secondment she moved onto a client team to work as a community-related activities from football to being on
technical implementation consultant where she worked with the Alfa for Racial Equity committee.
clients to help integrate Alfa Systems into their technical
landscape. She has recently come back to the UK and has
started working as a project architect for a European client.

11:00am
Session 4 Sector Stream Stage

Consulting and ESG: Lifecycle of a project

This session will give an overview of the types of consulting projects and summarise the lifecycle stages of a project.
A specialist from Alpha’s ESG Practice will then apply the project lifecycle to a typical ESG Transformation Project,
before discussing the main ESG challenges and trends in the asset management sector.

Matthew Pratt Ben Shenkin

Manager, Asset & Wealth Management Senior Manager, Asset & Wealth Management
Alpha FMC Head of Graduate Recruitment and Early Careers
Alpha FMC

Matt is a Manager at Alpha and joined as a Graduate in Ben has been with Alpha for over four years, having joined
September 2016. He has predominantly worked across as a Graduate Analyst (through Bright Network) in March
Alpha’s Front Office and ESG & Responsible Investment 2018. Ben has worked primarily in Alpha’s Asset and Wealth
practices across a variety of projects from strategy through Management team across a range of specialisms including
to implementation. Outside of his day-to-day project work he Benchmarking, Regulatory Compliance, and Operations &
has held business management roles across Marketing and Outsourcing. Side of desk, Ben heads up Alpha’s Graduate
Website, and practice management roles for ESG, where he Recruitment & Early Careers team and has recently played
leads Alpha’s Regulatory Impact proposition. an active role supporting Alpha’s thought leadership
regarding regulatory reporting.

11:30am
Session 5 Sector Stream Stage

Saving Pret’s bacon post COVID

How do you turn an organisation from a digital zero, to a digital hero in 18 months? How PA helped Pret deliver
their multichannel strategy with new customer propositions, among a perfect storm of legislative change,
business trading shocks and a tin can technology stack.

Dominic Berko
Principal Consultant – Agile
PA Consulting

Dom is an organisational agility expert which means he tries to improve the interactions between people, process and
technology in order for a business to deliver a better customer experience. His experience varies from helping businesses
prioritise their work and structure their teams, through to building cool technology that creates business value.

12:00pm Lunch

12:30pm
Graduate office hours Graduate Office Hour

This is your opportunity to network with recent graduates from each of the partner firms on your stream. Drop into any booth to
ask a question using the booth-specific chat to the right of your screen and the firm representatives will be on screen to answer
as many as possible.

Molly Abraham Ruby Eaves

Consulting Analyst Early Careers Executive
Accenture ICAEW

Alexander Burr Harvey Smith

Technology Consulting Analyst Early Careers Executive
Accenture ICAEW

Ana Mendes De Sousa Daniel Gunn

Consulting Analyst Analyst- Agile
Accenture PA Consulting

Ololade Onalaja Courtney Ingham-Barrow

Consulting Development Analyst Graduate Programme Manager
Accenture PA Consulting

Alex Collings Merisha Pascal

Analyst Analyst – Delivery
Alfa Systems PA Consulting

Catriona Dickson Junior Adu

HR Manager Consulting Associate
Alfa Systems PwC

Taren Rughooputh Suzie Bott

Junior Software Engineer Student Recruitment Senior Associate
Alfa Systems PwC

Lewis Bailey Rebecca Strachan

UK Recruitment Manager
Audit & Associate
Alpha FMC
PwC

Natalia Chance Abbie Knight

Analyst Associate Director – Investments
Alpha FMC WTW Investment Consulting

Xinzhuo Zheng Terrence Mapanga

Analyst Senior Associate – Investments
Alpha FMC WTW Investment Consulting

Sunny Burwaiss Kate Mason

Early Careers Consultant
Associate – Employee Experience
Baillie Gifford
WTW HR Consulting

Sharon Justine-Nyah Kiran Mistry

Graduate Trainee – Business Operations Risk Associate
Baillie Gifford WTW Actuarial Insurance Consulting

Bekah Salem-Dalgety Tabi Moloi

Trainee Application Developer Associate – Rewards
Baillie Gifford WTW HR Consulting

Stephanie Manning
Cathryn Rousell
Junior Tax Associate,
Early Careers Recruitment Manager
Private Client Services Guildford
WTW Actuarial Insurance Consulting
BDO

Jade Mills Justin Ngam

BDO Early Careers Resourcing Advisor Senior Reward Analyst
BDO WTW HR Consulting

Thao Truong Akbar Raza

Assistant Manager, London Tax Group Senior Associate,
Executive Compensation & Board Advisory
BDO
WTW HR Consulting

Caitlin Blakeman Rahman Wahid

Assurance Senior Senior Actuarial Consultant,
EY WTW Actuarial Insurance Consulting

Alex Down Susie Yasue

Assurance Associate Senior Associate – Investments
EY WTW Investment Consulting

Rachel Graham
Student Recruitment Manager
EY

1:30pm Break

2:00pm
Work sample intro Sector Stream Stage

Join EY for this work sample to get the opportunity to consider how you would approach an audit and
PESTLE analysis of the case study in question.

Dawood Bush
Assurance Senior – Real Estate, Hospitality,
Construction & Marine
EY
Dawood joined EY in 2018 on our Business Apprenticeship programme and has been working in our Assurance team in London
focusing on Real estate, hospitality and construction clients. He is now a Senior on his engagements. He has been studying
towards his ACA qualification and has his final case study exam in July. Within his department he is involved in the D&I
Committee, Social Committee & CSR Committee – where they implement policies/run events for the wider department!
Outside of his day job, he is involved in the EYMC (EY Muslim Community), where he often speaks at external and internal events.

2:30pm
Working time
Now that you have the work sample, spend some time doing some individual research or use the
Peer Networking function to speak with others regarding the work sample

3:30pm
Optional session Main Stage

Wellness sesh with Jess

The session has been designed to move the whole body, moving joints in different ways which has been proven to increase
range of motion, helping with feelings of tightness. The exercises chosen are of varying intensities; whether you’re looking
to challenge yourself or just a bit of light exercise, the session can be modified in any way that suits you.

We will be using tea towels, hand towels or even old t-shirts, to perform the different movements, so we suggest
participants to have any of these at hand. It is also recommended to wear appropriate clothes to perform physical activity,
such as t-shirts, leggings, joggers or shorts and comfortable footwear.

It will be a 20-minute-long session followed by a 10-minute talk about wellness. In this section, we will talk with participants
about the importance of looking after their physical and mental wellbeing and what changes they can introduce to live
healthier lives.

Jess Lamela
Personal Trainer
Puregym

Jess is an Argentinian certified personal trainer and gym instructor at Puregym. She has always been
passionate about health and fitness. She trains 1-1 clients and teaches group classes on a daily basis.
She understands the huge positive impact that training plays, not only on physical health, but
mental and emotional well-being too. She believes that fitness shouldn’t feel like a chore but
something enjoyable to deal with the stresses of everyday life, whether it’s a high energy
session or a walk in the park with the dog.

@jesslam.fit

PureGym is a chain of gyms located in the United Kingdom. It is Britain’s largest

gym chain by membership. Most locations are open 24/7 and offer cardio
equipment, fixed and free weights, and exercise classes, there are over 200
pieces of training equipment in most gyms. Puregym is here to help more
people in more places to lead healthier lives every day. Our gyms are friendly,
supportive, and judgement-free spaces where everybody can come in,
work out and leave feeling good. Puregym offers no contract, which means
you can leave or freeze whenever it suits you and rejoin when you’re ready.

@puregym.londonaldgate

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Agenda
Day 3

9:00am
Firm upskilling Main Stage

Presentation skills
This session will cover delivering memorable and engaging presentations in an increasingly virtual world. The key differences
between in person and virtual delivery will be explored, as well as how to maximise engagement and technology.

Sean Greensmith Nicole Harkness

Director – Retirement Actuarial Consultant – Retirement
WTW WTW

Sean is a Director – Retirement at WTW with over 25 years Nicole is a Senior Associate at WTW with almost 5 years of
of experience in pensions. He is skilled in Operational experience in the defined benefit pensions sector. She has
Planning and Management, Internal Consulting, Workflow recently qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. Her
Management, Training Design and Delivery, Process day-to-day role is varied, and works across both small and
Engineering, Business Analysis, Actuarial Valuations and large clients to help advise Trustees and Companies on how to
Offshoring. manage their pension schemes. Nicole is also a manager and
is responsible for the coordination of workflow, as well as direct
line management of her team.

9:30am Working time

This is your opportunity to complete and check your work sample before submission.

9:30am
Optional session Main Stage

Morning workout and mindfulness

We hear it a lot: interval training yields an unrivaled fat burn and total body fitness. Well, it’s true. So F45 created Docklands:
longer, more demanding periods of work and rest followed by shorter bursts of work and rest — all in a single workout.
Changing the duration of movements, or intervals of training, in one session confuses the body, keeps it from adapting, and
builds rock-solid endurance.

Sarah Spence
Coach
F45

Professional Actress turned Personal Trainer, Sarah is a trainer on a F45 Training is a global fitness community
mission: to inspire people to fall in love with fitness and themselves; be specialising in innovative, high-intensity group
that through in person and online personal training sessions, group workouts that are fast, fun, and results-driven. Come
classes at boutique studios across London, or the burgeoning online in and feel the burn. Members of F45 are smashing
community in which she works. their fitness goals in our studios across the United
Kingdom.
Passionate about working out to not only feel stronger physically, but
mentally too, Sarah believes fitness has the ability to change your life F45 is specifically designed to provide a functional
– helping you move easier, walk taller, and ultimately, feel better. Her full-body workout while improving energy levels,
goal is that you finish each session having not only taken a step closer metabolic rate, strength, and endurance.
towards your fitness goals, but with a positive mindset and ‘ready to go’
The team mentality at F45 Training helps members
self-confidence to take on whatever challenges you face that day.
transform their lifestyle physically and mentally
With endless motivation up her sleeve and bags of ‘anything is possible’ while encouraging community growth and a no-ego
energy, F45 Brixton coach Sarah has a genuine commitment towards attitude.
helping you get the most out of your class; whether that’s through
F45 Training is one of the most time-efficient ways
words of encouragement, adapting exercises to suit your needs,
of training. We aim to burn up to 750 calories per
meticulously correcting form, or just having a good laugh.
45-minute session.
She may be small but she is fierce – expect heaps of energy, lots of
sweat, and motivation to keep you going till the very end.

1:00pm Work sample debrief Sector Stream Stage

1:30pm Work sample marking/reflection

2:00pm Peer-to-peer feedback and final submissions Peer Networking

This time will be spent presenting your work sample to a peer and discussing its strengths
and weaknesses. Towards the end of the session, you will need to submit both your work
sample and answers to some feedback questions.

2:30pm Work sample submission deadline

Submit your work sample using the form that was included in the email you received in the morning.
You must include a shareable link to your work sample

2:30pm
Firm upskilling Main stage

CV and application advice

As you prepare for the world of work, the first step will always be your application. In this upskilling session, you’ll have the
opportunity to gain valuable insights from Vodafone on how to navigate through CV-writing, application submissions &
receive tips on interviews and assessment processes.

Kaneesha Banker
Youth Attraction & Recruitment Lead
Vodafone

Having started her career through a Youth programme herself, Kaneesha is now a Youth Recruitment Lead for Vodafone’s
global headquarters. Responsible for overseeing the hiring of over 200 graduates each year, sifting through over 10,000
applications – she is eager to share her experience with you about how to prepare your CV & writing a great application!

3:00pm Closing & congratulations Main stage

Kirsten Barnes Phil Yarrow

Platform CEO Careers and Community Manager
Bright Network Bright Network

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