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At Danone, you’re not just early talent; you’re just in time to take ownership of your career and be empowered to make a difference. Our Finance team is at the core of Danone, there is no area of the business that they aren’t involved in. Across the two-year programme, you’ll gain a breadth of exposure across several projects all whilst earning a starting salary of £34,000!
What can I expect on the programme?
Stepping into a variety of different finance areas across Danone, you’ll gain valuable experience within Performance and Reporting, Systems and Projects and Finance Control, building a solid foundation for your future career in finance. You’ll be supported through your journey whilst taking on your own responsibilities, such as applying accounting judgement to key financial accruals.
Not only will you be working with other business areas such as Sales, Marketing, and Operations, but you’ll be collaborating with stakeholders in both the UK and Ireland, taking your communication and project management skills to the next level. Across each function you could be:
- Gathering insights into our business performance and trends to add value to our reporting and road mapping
- Completing detailed category or channel analysis through surveying the volume, net sales and profitability of each category over time and pinpointing trends
What do we look for?
With the world of finance always changing, we need someone with strong adaptability skills including the ability to understand new systems and technology with ease. We work closely as a team but there is independent work throughout so you must be confident in taking on your own tasks but not afraid to ask questions when needed. An analytical mindset with great attention to detail is essential within this function as you’ll be handling data and numbers on a daily basis.
As a global company, Danone serves a huge array of different communities, with different cultures, local tastes and habits. Our teams need to represent the diversity of these millions of people and we therefore encourage applications from all backgrounds and aim to create a workplace where our Danoners can be their true authentic selves.
You must be available to start in the role from 14th October 2024.
What we offer
At the start of your journey with Danone, you'll be part of a growing and encouraging early talent community. Not only that, but you'll also be able to enjoy a range of benefits, including:
- Learning and Development – experience a mixture of classroom and on-the-job training, progressing into a manager level position within 2-years.
- Smart Working – Enabling you to find the perfect work/life balance, whilst still managing the business needs.
- Volunteering – every single person at Danone has unlimited volunteering time. Your time to give back to the community.
- £120 of Danone products per year to treat yourself.
- Private medical insurance and discounted gym memberships.
- 25 days annual leave with the option to buy up to 5 more days.
Take the next step in being a Danoner by hearing from current ones in the Finance team.
The deadline for application is Monday 19th August 2024. However, please note due to the popularity of these roles we may be required to bring forward the deadline and would encourage you to submit your application at your earliest convenience.
Successful candidates will be invited to join us on our Danone Immersion Day in the first two weeks of September.
Candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK as we are unable to provide sponsorship for these roles.
