Finance Graduate

Title: Finance Graduate (scheme)
Salary: 20,000 - 23,000 + Study Support and Benefits
Location: Hemel Hempstead, Leeds or Birmingham

Role Overview

Exciting opportunities have arisen to join Steria at our UK Head Offices in Hemel Hempstead as part of our Finance Graduate Scheme. The successful candidates will spend time working in different areas of Finance with a view to developing skills & training for the CIMA qualification.

Role Responsibilities:
o Working in different areas of the Finance Department, gaining a good overall grounding in Finance
o Assist in necessary analysis in relevance to the monthly accounting, for example: monthly analysis of accounts, analysis of intragroups (balance sheet accounts, income statement), comparison of monthly budget/monthly production
o Assist in verification of Accounts Receivable
o Processing the transactions that are non-recurring and not related to Accounts Receivable or Accounts Payable
o Assist in the preparation of various tax returns related to the accounts payable, for example training, fees paid, advertising, and employees on contract
o Assist with monitoring cash and current accounts for monthly validation

Essential Skills

o Degree qualified in a related field
o Strong academics including A Levels
o The desire to establish a career in finance including commitment to further study
o Excellent communication skills with the ability to work closely with senior stakeholders
o Strong analytical skills

Desirable Skills

The successful candidate must be willing to undergo a security clearance process.

Sopra Steria, European leader in digital transformation, provides one of the most comprehensive portfolios of end to end service offerings in the market: Consulting, Systems Integration, Software Development and Business Process Services. Sopra Steria is trusted by leading private and public organisations to deliver successful transformation programmes that address their most complex and critical business challenges. Combining high quality and performance services, added-value and innovation, Sopra Steria enables its clients to make the best use of information technology.

With 35,000 professionals in over 20 countries (of which over 5000 are based in the UK) and pro forma revenue of 3.1 billion in 2013, this is a great time to join the organisation as you will be pivotal to our continued development and growth plans. We're offering you the opportunity to do more too - using your business skills and knowledge, and your creativity, to add more value than clients would traditionally expect.

On offer is the opportunity to work for a European leader in digital transformation. The role comes with a competitive salary, the opportunity for further development and the potential for a wide and diverse career within Sopra Steria.

Sopra Steria is committed to establishing and maintaining a working environment which is free from discrimination and which values all employees as individuals. All employees and prospective employees are selected, recruited, trained and promoted solely on the basis of their skills and behaviour.

Sopra Steria Recruitment Limited acts as both an employment business and as an employment agency.