My first year - Transcript

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First steps. Building experience.

My first year.

[Voice one]

In my first few months, I spent quite a lot of time shadowing the team and learning about the very basics of finance. I learned how finance systems work, what reconciliations are.

[Voice two]

Processing invoices, matching invoices to POs.

[Voice three]

Being able to produce reports and basically going to investment panels and basically saying, "This is the funding that we're getting. How is it going to be getting allocated and distributed out?"

[Voice two]

So nothing too difficult, but everything was new to me at the time, so I did struggle at first, but then I got used to it because I was doing it every day.

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Supportive teams. Growing confidence.

[Voice one]

Any job is difficult at the start, no matter what you do. There's always going to be challenges.

If you turned up to a job knowing all the answers, it would probably be the wrong job for you.

[Voice four]

I think that was one of the most interesting aspects of getting better at your job each week, and then having the opportunity to apply it.

[Voice one]

I had a brilliant manager, a brilliant team, which really helped.

[Voice two]

If I was struggling to pick something up with my studying, she would show me an example through the work that we do.

[Voice three]

Call it, it's a lot of working with different teams and kind of seeing different finance perspectives.

[Voice four]

I really felt that intrinsic value of the work we do matters, and it impacted everybody across the whole country, and that was an incredibly unique factor about our daily work.

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Important work. Visible impact.