Finance Graduate

BRAKES FINANCE GRADUATE PROGRAMME
L ocation: Ashford Kent - Posts available for an immediate start and September 2021 start
Starting Salary: £25,500 + £2000 incentive payment and excellent benefits
Are you a Finance Graduate with big aspirations? Here's a sum that'll interest you...Brakes + YOU = Success!
Are you looking for a challenging and interesting graduate career in Finance which will give you access to a £3bn business and one of the leading suppliers to the food service sector in Europe?
Do you want to become a qualified Management Accountant with CIMA? Perhaps a future Finance Director?
Then you should choose our Graduate Scheme!
"The Brakes Grad scheme offers so much diversity allowing you to experience a different role every year. The support you receive whilst you study is second to none"

• A Vital Industry - as our Covid-19 response shows, our keyworkers kept the nation and the most vulnerable fed
• Variety - A career with brakes finance is fast paced and exciting, being part of Sysco - the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products; the opportunities are endless
• A Bespoke Graduate Experience - With a small graduate intake the Brakes scheme offers a much more bespoke programme to its graduates with a more personal approach and an emphasis on long term success.
• CIMA - Fees all taken care of, plus we will give you time off to study and mentoring from our team
• The Cherry On The Cake - We will give you a starting salary of £25.5K plus a golden hello of £2000, a pension plan, generous discounts on products and services, excellent rewards and 23 days paid holiday. "A big advantage is the intake of grads - With a cohort of 3-4 Grads the Brakes Grad scheme really puts you in a more personal position and there really is more support for you to succeed"
Your local pub, your favourite restaurant, your children's schools all have one thing in common - Brakes. There are a lot of hungry mouths to feed out there and every day we deliver 1.5 million products from our fleet of 2000 trucks to thousands of restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, hospitals and care homes in every corner of the UK. Our customers count on us for exceptional food and service, and as our response to Covid-19 proved, our 6,000-strong workforce is dedicated and proud to play their part in feeding the nation
At Brakes, our Finance team are an integral part of the business at every level. We have an established Finance Graduate Programme developing our future Finance Directors based in Ashford, Kent. By joining Brakes you will be on a CIMA accredited training scheme which provides a wide breadth of experience with a study package to match and ensure success in your qualification and future career.
You won't be joining "just another graduate scheme", our graduates will have the ability to go all the way within the Finance team and be the best they can be because we only hire a select few, and your potential will be visible to key leaders within our business. Don't just take our word for it - we have many senior members of the Finance department who have made their way to where they are now after starting with us on our Graduate Scheme.

What does our Finance Graduate Scheme look like?
Our Finance Graduate Scheme runs over three years where you'll spend time across the Finance function business partnering and honing your commercial acumen with other areas in the business. This could include:

• Central Planning Team,
• Reporting,
• Operations & Distribution,
• Sales,
• Commercial & Group Finance, All alongside studying for your CIMA qualification. From day one, you'll begin to gain hands-on experience, whilst also broadening your technical know-how.

What we look for you in you?

• A minimum of a 2:1 degree (realised or predicted) - we are flexible on discipline
• A minimum of three A levels or equivalent at grade B or above including a maths or a science- based subject
• Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills
• Strong commercial awareness and career motivation
• Bags of energy and enthusiasm
• All applicants must have the right to work in the UK and unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor work permits You'll live and breathe Customer First, with an innovative and agile approach to identify new ideas and methods. You'll enjoy working collaboratively with a dedicated focus on driving results. You will be resilient - accepting and learning from mistakes and building future solutions. Naturally, you will embrace an inclusive working environment and be committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do.
"I would say a key advantage of Brakes graduate scheme is the personal approach the business takes to its graduates. The graduate intake is fairly small for a business the size of Brakes and this means that each graduate receives a significant investment of time and development from the finance community. Rather than being a part of a graduate programme with a very large intake where emphasis is placed on internal competition the Brakes scheme is able to offer a much more bespoke programme to its graduates with a more personal approach and an emphasis on long term success."
Brakes uses a third party to undertake a number of checks. Any offer of employment made by Brakes would be conditional upon receiving a satisfactory; reference, proof of right to work, basic DBS certificate and basic credit check.
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