Finance Graduate Programme

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving.  And helps make every day a little better for you and your family.  These include but are not limited to:

• Colleague bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here 
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

About the role

Our Finance graduate scheme offers a unique opportunity to learn and develop in the UK’s largest retailer, a business that generates over £60bn of sales across the Group.  With a proven track record of developing talent, we are on the lookout for our future finance leaders.  We are looking for individuals who are committed to building the skills and business understanding to co-pilot the business to deliver value for customers, colleagues, and shareholders.

Operating over 4,500 stores globally and with +2,000 UK based colleagues, there are plenty of opportunities to explore a wide range of finance disciplines whilst gaining a broad understanding of our business (supported by in-store experience).  Across the three years of the programme, you will spend time in different areas of the Finance team, whether that be working with our Product teams to develop the right ranges for customers, providing analysis to Stores leadership to unlock efficiencies within the operations or working with Group Finance and Investor Relations teams to craft our external results narrative.

You will be responsible for

Our rotations aren’t confined to our UK retail business with opportunities to work in Booker (UK’s leading food and drink wholesaler), dunnhumby, our customer-centric data science business or gaining international experience in one of our global business units.

During your programme we'll support you through your CIMA studies, with paid leave and the breadth of experience you’ll need for the practical requirements of the qualification. You’ll also be supported by your colleagues - a dedicated programme team, a mentor and one-on-one director sponsorship.

Whether you’re building necessary technical skills, or gaining essential communication, analysis and insight capabilities, this programme will ensure the best possible journey towards becoming a well-rounded qualified finance professional, with a proven track record of developing future finance leaders.

You will need

We’re looking for our future finance leaders, who are committed to building the skills and business understanding to co-pilot the business to deliver value for customers, colleagues, and shareholders.

We’re looking for individuals that are curious in their thinking and brave in their application, whilst operating with a 20/80 mindset. We’re a people business where believing in each other underpins our success.

 2:2 degree or above 

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.