Real Work

This past week I started my actual job at my first client. Unfortunately, my client is located in Bristol, so for five weeks I have to be at Paddington at 8:30am on Monday and I get back to Blackheath at 7pm on the Friday. I'm not a fan of this schedule. It wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't just moved in, and if our Bristol hotel was in the city rather than being in the middle of nowhere. Despite being a Hilton, there's no free internet, and nothing to do except go to the gym (ewww).

My job itself involves doing walkthroughs of internal controls, testing a sample of data to ensure the control functions, and formally writing the results. For example, if there's a control in place to make sure that leavers of the firm have their account access removed within three days, we may test a sample of leavers from HR and ask for "evidence" (usually a screenshot) that their access had been removed. Not the most exciting stuff in the world, but if I stick with it, I'll be able to do more advisory work. My next assignment involves data marts, an assignment a new grad is very lucky to get!

Yesterday James and I helped clean out our old house in Wimbledon. Today I met Nic, Jonas and Nadine for lunch, a tour of Greenwich Market, and drinks. It was great to see them and talk about people we knew at Lehigh. Nic is from Bexleyheath, which is a short bus ride from Blackheath. It's a nice little irony, considering we meet at a schetchy nightclub in Bethlehem, thousands of miles from here.