Finance Associate Placement - SAP UK Intern (13 Months)

What you’ll bring

This placement is for a penultimate-year student from any degree discipline with an interest in finance. You’re curious, collaborative, and a clear communicator, someone who thinks creatively and tackles complex problems head on.

• A genuine interest in how finance supports business decisions, and you look beyond the numbers to understand the bigger picture.
• Solid proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and you’re comfortable analysing data and building reports.
• Effective time management - you juggle multiple tasks simultaneously and deliver to deadlines without losing accuracy.
• An inquisitive mindset, you ask questions, challenge assumptions, and dig into problems.
• An open mindset toward AI, you’re willing to experiment, collaborate with AI tools, and take responsibility for the outputs you produce.
• A background or interest in business, accounting, or IT is an advantage, but not a requirement.

What you’ll build

You’ll join SAP UK’s Finance team, contributing to financial reporting, analysis, and business partnering across the UK. From day one, you’ll take ownership of real tasks and play a visible role in how the team operates.

• Support the construction and analysis of financial reports for internal stakeholders and the CFO office.
• Contribute to statutory reporting activities and assist with recurring and ad hoc finance tasks.
• Lead your own projects developing from initial scoping through to delivery and presentation.
• Build relationships with shared services colleagues and departments across SAP to support business partnering.
• Help the team evolve the business support and partnering it delivers to the UK market unit.
• Work with SAP Analytics Cloud and AI-powered tools to explore how intelligent analytics are reshaping financial planning and reporting.

Where you belong

SAP UK’s 13-month placement programme puts you at the heart of a finance team with reach across SAP’s regional and global organisation. You’ll work alongside finance professionals on reporting, analysis, and business partnering that makes a real difference. When you join SAP, you’ll be a part of SAP Next Gen, a global community of students and early professionals with access to mentors, development programmes, and peers. This placement is based at our Feltham office.

Rewards and Benefits

• Compensation: up to GBP 27,230 - yearly
• Full-time
• Employees work in a hybrid mode

About the Company

About SAP

With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improves people’s lives.

As a leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone, regardless of background, feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy and childbirth), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

Apply

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Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

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Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

How to apply

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