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Discover the key financial and business services at National Highways and achieve accountancy chartership through accredited professional body training.
What youll be doing
On our three-year Finance graduate programme, you’ll explore a variety of areas through a series of placements across our specialist teams.
You’ll gain a breadth of valuable experience whilst supporting the key financial services that make a real difference to our organisation.
You’ll also have opportunity to gain professional body chartership by completing accredited accountancy training through the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). We’ll give you additional time for study and all the support you need to achieve your development goals.
When you successfully complete the programme, you’ll be offered an opportunity of promotion and continue to support key services and important decisions at National Highways.
What youll get in return
With our support, you’ll enjoy the chance to own your development to get the best out of your time on the programme.
So, if you're looking to grow your career in a large, evolving organisation and ready to invest in your development, all our graduate programmes offer:
- A mix of workshops, on-job-training and ‘hands on’ experience
- A dedicated line manager and mentoring from senior managers to provide encouragement, direction and career planning support
- Flexible working arrangements
- Peer networking and support through our Early Talent community
- Opportunities to move your career to the next level after you successfully complete the programme
As well as a competitive salary and plenty of career development support, you’ll also have access to a fantastic employee benefits package. Find out more about the benefits we offer at National Highways.
What youll need to succeed
If you have the passion to succeed that we see in our graduates every day, you’ll be a great match for our programme. You’ll have:
- An enthusiastic, collaborative approach to working with others
- The ability to communicate in different formats with a variety of stakeholders
- Excellent co-ordination skills
- The ability to plan and prioritise effectively to meet deadlines
- A focus on quality and integrity in everything you do
You’ll also need to meet these essential qualification requirements:
- An undergraduate (e.g. BA, BSc) degree at 2:1 or above (in any subject), plus
- A minimum of a Grade C / Grade 4 in Mathematics and English Language at GCSE
It is key to know all offers to onto our graduate programmes are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks. This includes a Right to Work check, reference check and a DBS criminal record check.
About us
Our finance directorate is responsible for managing the company's £4 billion a year finances, overall governance, assurance and risk management, managing the company's large and dispersed estate, processing damages claims and the operation of the Dart Charge facility. A lot of what we do is like oil in the organisational machinery. We make the business work more smoothly and we help everyone to do their jobs better. Our vision is to work through partnership and collaboration to secure great resource outcomes for the company and amplify what we achieve with it.
Why you should join us
At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers. So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion in what you do, work effectively in a team and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.
And finally
And finally, we reserve the right to close before the advertised closing date based on the volume of applications received. To ensure that we can consider your application, please submit your application early.
