How is your time within your team split between working on TD projects, deal analytics, and practice development?

Hi,

Thanks for the question! First thing to note is that as I am on the graduate programme, I am working towards a CA qualification so one of the things that takes up a significant amount of time is being away at college for these exams. But, when I'm not at college, I spend the vast majority of my time on TD projects. When you're on a project, you're pretty much spending 100% of your time on it. If I have periods of downtime during a project, that is when I would get some learning and development in, or if I have a few days for example between a project ending and moving onto the next one. There isn't really a set time to do learning or personal development (unless you are attending training days or courses) so you are expected to fit this in where you can. So that's probably a few hours a month in total.

In terms of deal analytics, it depends what the project requires, and who else is working on it. If the project requires a data dashboard for example, then we might use analytics tools. If we have analytics support, then they would probably take the lead on this and not me. Before my last project I hadn't used analytics at all, but on that project we created a dashboard for the client so it was heavily analytics focused. Its entirely possible you could be using analytics on every project you do, or none of them at all. That being said, its a useful skill to have and its definitely one which analysts are being encouraged to develop.

Hope that answers your question, if not just reply below and I'll get back to you :)

Alex

Thank you! This was very helpful.