Finance Graduate Developments – Preston, Lancashire
We are Places for People Group, we build homes and manage communities where everyone is welcome and everyone can thrive, we are peacemakers. We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, and maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselves with innovative people, supportive people and passionate people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.
More about your role
As our Finance Graduate within the 2022 Emerging Talent Programme, you’ll join our Developments finance team. The two-year programme will support you to develop the core skills, behaviours and technical ability to develop into part qualified management account. You will have the opportunity to gain insight and get involved in a range of projects which include management accounts and reporting. You’ll be exposed to and be encouraged to contribute to work that drives forward our business objectives. You’ll join a Finance department with a People First approach and be comfortable interpreting and translating data to relay a core message to colleagues without a finance background. This is a hybrid role with the expectation that the successful candidate will be at our Preston office two days a week.
More about you
You’ll be a recent graduate with a degree and an interest in starting a career in finance. Finance background isn’t essential as these skills and technical behaviours will be taught. You’ll also be supported to reach qualified status through the finance route of your choice. It’s essential you have an analytical and curious mind with a solution-focused outlook. Having a commercial outlook and being highly motivated to succeed would set you apart from other candidates part. Places for People is a growing organisation and we want candidates to be invested in their own success as part of this. Most importantly this role should excite and intrigue you
The Benefits
You’ll join our Emerging Talent programme which brings together SPIRITed and talented individuals from across Places for People. The programme is designed to provide you with a wide range of skills, business insight and sector-specific knowledge over two years. You’ll learn a lot and quickly, you’ll get exposure to some of our senior leaders as well being connected to a business mentor to support you throughout. You’ll be encouraged and empowered to flourish and thrive within a nurturing environment. Our ambition gives you all the challenges you could wish for and that’s why we can offer you tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse ad pioneering environment.
What’s next?
Hopefully what you’ve read here has got you excited and wanting to apply. The first step of the application process should take around 20 minutes. You’ll be asked to complete your personal details and academic history and provide us with some additional supporting information about you. Don’t worry you should know all of the answers. The next part of the application form is asking you to complete a few additional questions, these will ask you to consider your reason for applying, what you want out of the Emerging Talent programme and how you would address current societal issues. Take your time over these, your answers will be shared and may lead to additional questions throughout the application process.
Finally, you’ll be asked to upload a CV, this should include an overview of your work history so far, don’t forget to include any volunteering you’ve done. You will need to make sure this includes all of your academic achievements, from GCSE to your most recent qualifications. Once we’ve been able to review your application and CV, successful candidates will be sent invites to complete a video interview. This gives you the opportunity to give us more information and offer insight into the person behind the CV.
