Finance Scheme
This Scheme is now CLOSED for our 2008 intake.
Since our operations are so diverse, we can offer our finance professionals enormous variety and scope for progression. In fact, we move them every 6 months or so around the British Sugar group, giving them every opportunity to broaden their experience and develop new skills.
The emphasis is on fast-track development. In addition to real work from the off and your regular moves, you’ll be studying and progressing towards your CIMA qualification over your first 30 months. At the end of this period, having successfully completed the graduate programme and gained CIMA qualification, you will be appointed as Management Accountant within one of our business units. Very few employers can offer this level of responsibility so early on.
Joining us in mid August 2008, the first two and half years involve a mixture of on-the-job training placements, at sites, right across our organisation, backed by formal training. In addition, you have access to Mentor’s and Buddy’s who will support you in your integration and beyond. This learning is interspersed with a series of projects, which will see you addressing real business problems, meeting people from different disciplines and gaining exposure to different processes. So when you come to analyse financial data, you can base your interpretations and suggestions on business realities and first-hand knowledge of practical issues.
For the first one or two months, you will be reporting your solutions to local management, but it will only be a short time before you will be making a presentation to senior managers. So just think; right from the start of your career, top people will be listening to your ideas, heeding your advice and taking an interest in your progress.
No wonder the programme is so highly respected. It was one of the first to be granted the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) quality award. This means that it meets all the criteria laid down by the Institute as ‘best practice’ – something that will really help as you work towards the CIMA exams and give you the best possible chance of passing them first time.
Once trained and Chartered, the opportunities are excellent. It is quite normal for our trainees to move straight into roles such as Factory Accountant or Financial Analyst within one of our business units – taking on responsibilities that their contemporaries in other companies would have to wait years to be granted.
The carefully selected individuals who are invited to join our scheme will possess a blend of aptitude, skill and importantly, the right cultural fit with British Sugar to ensure you can develop quickly and take the level of responsibility required.
Benefits
The benefits of a career with British Sugar are an appealing mix of the professional and the financial:
- Salary – c£22,000, reviewed in line with successful completion of CIMA exams
- Full support towards achievement of CIMA qualifications
- Formal and Informal mentoring scheme
- Opportunity for cross-functional moves
- Company pension scheme
- 21 days’ holiday in first year rising to 26 in subsequent years plus 8 statutory days’ holiday
- Early responsibility – for example, most graduates in Finance are appointed to the position of Management Accountant by the end of the first two years.