Six months into my first placement in CTB, I was really starting to reach a point where I had a mutual agreement with debits and credits to get along and the job was going very well. I'd settled into life with my team and was even managing to answer the dreaded audit queries about the company I was looking after, which to my great disappointment, but everyone else's great satisfaction, was due to be transferred in to CTB over the next six months. It became my personal mission to close the company with a profit. The experience I gained from helping wind a company down through the Probe Go-Live set me up phenomenally for the future and I left the role on a high, feeling like my mutual agreement could now have turned in to real knowledge. Perhaps I would move on to conquer the world!
Three days later I turned up in my new Supply Chain Finance role in Dublin feeling highly motivated and full of the knowledge that I am now a "Second Year Grad". It came, then, as a bit of a shock to me to find myself sitting in a meeting after only a day or two in the role, where I was the only person not in a white coat and hat, who didn't understand the whole new set of acronyms that the manufacturing world has to offer.
It's great getting back to the heart of the business and seeing the process right from the beginning. I'm currently on a new beginning to a very steep learning curve but it's going well so far, and I'm even learning to appreciate those moments when you learn about the finer points of making chocolate. I may not be any wiser in this area of Finance, I may not conquer the world quite yet, but a year at Cadbury has certainly taught me a lot about myself and the kind of company I hope to work for for a long time.
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