Job Description Finance Professional Apprenticeship Starting salary: £20,735 per year Location: Derby Duration: 5 years Imagine combining your passion for numbers with the skills to understanding the story behind them. And in doing so, making sure a world-leading company performs at its best. As a Finance Professional Apprentice at Rolls-Royce, you’ll learn how essential responsible and effective accounting is to the running of our business. Along with the difference your expertise and support can make to teams throughout our business. All while gaining real work experience, earning a salary and studying towards a Master’s level professional qualification. Rolls-Royce designs, builds and services the world’s most vital technologies, providing critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount. We’ve been a force for progress for over 100 years. And it’s what’s fuelling our next chapter as we power, protect, and connect people everywhere. That’s our vision for you, too. Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive culture that invests in you and gives you access to opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference. What you’ll do? You’ll complete five, year-long placements in different areas of finance, giving you an unrivalled breadth of experience. This might mean working in our Financial Accounting and Reporting team, in Finance Shared Services within one of our business areas, or as a Finance Business Partner to colleagues across Rolls-Royce. One placement will be in a specialist area, such as Group Finance, Treasury, Tax or Internal Audit. On each placement, you’ll be responsible for completing core tasks and supporting teams across our business. This will give you a solid understanding of the fundamentals of finance and a strong foundation on which to build an amazing career. You will essentially complete two apprenticeships within this programme: one at Level 4 followed immediately by one at Level 7. Before you start working towards your Level 4 apprenticeship, there will be some initial training to give you the essential knowledge you need. What you’ll need Five GCSEs which must include Maths at grade 5/B and English Language at grade 4/C plus three other subjects at grade 4/C. 112 UCAS points (obtained or predicted) from either: Three A-Levels which must include either Maths; Physics; Business Studies or Economics at Grade C, plus two others (excluding General Studies). A Level 3 Extended BTEC Diploma in a Business or Finance discipline at DMM. If you have equivalent qualifications, please contact us. Every bit as important as your academic achievements, however, are the personal qualities you bring to the role. We look for people who don’t just enjoy working with numbers but are curious to delve into them and unpick what they are telling us. Beyond that, you’ll need to be someone who can ask questions, interrogate data, and doesn’t only want to know more about the world of finance but is eager to excel within it. Our behaviours drive us - we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. We’ll expect that of you, too. What you’ll get A competitive starting salary with annual pay rises 33 days’ holiday per year (including bank holidays) Fully funded qualifications including Level 4 AAT Professional Diploma in Accounting and CIMA Professional Competitive pension A choice of voluntary benefits including discounts at nationwide stores, gyms, discounted health care, free digital GP, Cycle to Work scheme and more all available on our TotalReward portal Continuous learning and development Support from managers, leaders, mentors and other apprentices Opportunities to develop beyond your day-to-day role and get involved in social activities An independent, 24-hour, confidential counselling service CLOSING DATE: 21st February 2025, 12pm (GMT) We reserve the right to close the job advert early dependent on application volumes. Assessment centres for this programme will take place in February. At Rolls-Royce, we recruit our people based on merit, and regardless of age, disability, gender identity or expression, race/colour/nationality/ethnic or national origins, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable legislation. Programme Job Posting Date 04 Nov 2024; 00:11