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Finance Graduate Scheme

Posted 24 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 2 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Mitchells and Butlers is steeped in history! Established in 1898, we are one of UK’s largest operators of managed house pubs, restaurants and bars. We have some truly great brands such as All Bar One, Miller & Carter, Toby Carvery and Harvester.

The Finance Team plays a critical supporting role in ensuring that our brands and departments are best advised and well placed to manage their budgets and achieve objectives, sales and profit targets. Within the finance department there are many different specialist and generalist finance job roles which focus on a variety disciplines to include organising, auditing, accounting, reporting and controlling our spend, investments and profit.

The graduate scheme is designed to develop well rounded finance professionals. Our Graduates have the opportunity to learn finance skills ‘on job’ and also study ‘off job’ to gain their professional qualifications. Each Graduate is placed in a role within our Brand Finance team, taking responsibility for delivering key information, analysis and insight to the wider finance team and organisation. As part of the scheme we also give our graduates the opportunity to spend time in our restaurants, pubs or bars, to really understand just how our businesses tick!

The role will be varied, and it will flex to facilitate gaining relevant experience and knowledge of our business and our wider Finance department. This is a great opportunity to develop your experience in business and your commercial and financial understanding.

As an organisation, we will fully support a professional accounting qualification (CIMA or ACCA) via BPP Professional Education – this will take between 2 to 3 years’ dependent on your previous qualifications/experience.

Your first role post qualification will come normally after 2-3 years, this will be an upweighted role with greater responsibility within the Finance Team that will recognise your personal and professional development.

To help you on your journey as a Graduate, you will have a dedicated Line Manager assigned to you from the output, this will be a Senior Manager and a specialist in Finance. On top of this dedicated support, you would also be assigned a Buddy – this is a graduate from the year above who works in similar discipline and can answer questions about the scheme, the company, how things work and what to expect, and a Coach/Mentor to support you through your time on scheme.

This is a great opportunity for an energetic, and hard working Graduate with an expected or achieved 2:1 degree or above, looking to join an exciting and ever growing company in September/October 2018.

This role is office based at our Retail Support Centre in Birmingham.

Job Requirements:

  • 2:1 degree or above, expected or achieved. *Associated subject degree highly desirable*
  • Three A-Levels: A:B:B
  • Operations/retail work experience, associated degree internships or placements, highly desirable
  • Mature, focused and hard working attitude
  • Highly organised
  • Excellent communication skills
  • A passion for numbers, food & drink!

BENEFITS:

  • A great starting salary: £25,500
  • 25 days holiday, with the ability to buy extra!
  • 33% employee discount at our 1700+ restaurants and pubs
  • Private Healthcare
  • Life Assurance
  • Pension
  • Sharesave Scheme
  • Free shares
  • High street shopping discounts

If this sounds like you, and you'd love the opportunity to find out more, apply now!

If you are currently working for us, either in our Retail Support Centre, or within one of our businesses across the UK and have the above job requirements, we’d love to get an application from you too! In fact, two of our Graduates joining us on this year’s scheme are team members in our restaurants/pubs.

We operate around 1,700 restaurants and pubs all over the UK and work hard each day to offer our customers a great choice of quality food and drink, fast and friendly service and excellent value for money. Our success is based on innovation, listening to customer feedback and ensuring our passionate staff are the best trained in the industry.
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We operate around 1,700 restaurants and pubs all over the UK and work hard each day to offer our customers a great choice of quality food and drink, fast and friendly service and excellent value for money. Our success is based on innovation, listening to customer feedback and ensuring our passionate staff are the best trained in the industry.

We've stayed at the industry's cutting edge by constantly innovating, ensuring that our business is always driven by new ideas. We've developed household names like All Bar One, Toby Carvery and Vintage Inns, and all our brands pride themselves on listening to their customers. In fact, we gather around 700,000 pieces of guest feedback every year, which provide priceless insights for improving our service.

Around 44,000 staff help us set the benchmark for the industry, so whichever of our 1,700 restaurants and pubs you visit, you’ll find a warm welcome, great service, outstanding quality and excellent value. We achieve this through award-winning training for all our staff, world-class supply chain management, innovative menu development, rigorous food safety practices and by taking our responsibility as a seller of alcohol seriously.

Hospitality
Birmingham
44,000 employees

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