Finance Executive Placement

This placement year is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to gain hands-on experience in finance within a fast paced, growing business. You'll be involved in real work from day one, supporting everything from month-end reporting and budgeting to inventory management and audit activities. You'll work closely with experienced colleagues across Finance, Supply Chain and Operations, developing both your technical knowledge and commercial understanding. If you're curious, eager to learn and excited about building a career in finance, we'll give you the support, exposure and responsibility to help you grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Opex reporting & analysis: Preparing and delivering monthly opex reports, analysing variances against forecast, and providing clear commentary to support senior finance stakeholders in their decision-making
• Month-end support: Supporting the month-end cost accrual and prepayment process
• Budgeting & forecasting: Supporting the annual budget cycle and rolling forecast for opex, working closely with cost centre owners to build bottom up plans and challenge assumptions to ensure accuracy and accountability
• Business partnering: Providing ad hoc support to the Commercial Finance team, e.g. deep dives on specific areas, helping to collate trading packs
• Process improvement: Helping continuously improve FP&A processes, tools and templates, e.g. cost centre reporting
• Cash forecasting: Compiling the rolling 13-week cash forecast

Electrify us with your skills

• Professional communication skills – building confidence working with colleagues across the business, in person and remotely
• Active listening and questioning – learning how to understand business needs and accounting issues, and tailor your communications to achieving real-world outcomes
• Resilience and confidence – handling complex issues and large data sets, coming up with new approaches, and staying motivated
• Time management and organisation – balancing a range of tasks admin in a busy environment
• Adaptability – adjusting your approach for different stakeholders and situations
• Team collaboration – working closely with experienced finance professionals and learning from others
• Problem‑solving skills – thinking on your feet to overcome challenges in live conversations
• Professionalism in the workplace – representing a growing business and its values
• Confidence working towards targets – understanding how goals, KPIs, and performance tracking work
• Commercial awareness - gaining insight into how the finance team contributes to business success.

Eligibility

• You must have the legal right to work in the UK

Our Hiring Process

• Stage 1: Discovery Meeting (30-45mins)
• Stage 2: Online Assessments
• Stage 3: Hiring Manager Meeting (60mins)
• Stage 4: Skills & Experience Interview (up to 60mins)

Good luck and we look forward to speaking with you soon!

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button. Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.