Finance Graduates, MBDA Missile Systems

We view the graduates of today as the managers and decision-makers of tomorrow. Our aim is to develop financial professionals of the highest quality.

Successful candidates will have achieved (or expect to achieve), a 2:1 Honours Degree in any degree discipline and have 300 UCAS points. French, German or Italian language skills are also useful, but not necessary.

You will have a mix of intellect, drive and ambition with the confidence and ability to act on your own ideas.

We will expect to see good evidence of genuine leadership potential, and business and communication skills to enable strong relationships to be built with colleagues and clients.

In return we offer a three-year structured formal development programme and a fully supported route leading to the Chartered Institute of Management Accounting (CIMA) qualification.

You can expect hands-on experience in a variety of challenging finance roles, one of which may be overseas:

Financial Accounting: provide efficient accounting services to ensure that MBDA UK meets its statutory, management and shareholder reporting requirements.

Financial Management: provide efficient accounting services to assist in the control of the support functions in the organisation and labour & overheads costs.

Project Finance: provide efficient financial services to project teams to assist in the control of contracts, including forecasting future performance.

Strategic Planning: providing strategic financial information, including developing business case models.

It’s a challenging environment but the various elements included in your programme will help you to succeed.

ON TARGET TO SUCCEED FROM DAY ONE – INDUCTION
When you join MBDA, our four-day induction programme will help give you a truly big picture perspective of the business, as well as the detail regarding our day-to-day working practices. You’ll also be allocated your own ‘buddy’ before you start – someone who has recently participated in a scheme similar to your own who knows the ropes and can give you practical guidance about what you can expect (and what will be expected of you!).

ON TARGET SUPPORT
As well as your Buddy, you’ll also have an assigned trained Mentor to support you throughout your development. Focused on providing career development support and helping you identify where your skills are best placed (and where they need to be developed

At MBDA, your development doesn’t stop the minute you complete the graduate programme. As well as our supported professional accreditation and professional and personal development activities, we also offer ‘Knowledge Point Centres’ at each of our locations. Designed to provide in-house, business-focused learning opportunities, the centres allow you to access myriad interactive training courses that you can fit in around your work schedule, as well as providing learning books, videos and CD-ROMs.
We also offer a Programme of Assisted Self Study (PASS) Scheme, which will help you to develop a skill in a subject that isn't necessarily directly work-related. MBDA is happy to provide up to £100 of financial support each year, which you can put towards training course fees, exam fees or recommended study materials.

ON TARGET REWARDS
Primarily located in our state-of-the-art facilities in Stevenage and Bristol, if it’s a high tech, high visibility working environment you’re after, this is the place for you. And, as well as offering an inspiring physical environment, we also offer a culture that promotes flexible working – meaning here you’ll have the freedom to define your own work pattern within set time limits.

But it’s not just the environment and culture here that are highly rewarding – we also offer more tangible rewards in the form of very competitive salaries, pension schemes and an option of private healthcare. All our graduates receive a joining bonus when they start with us, and salaries are reviewed every six months in order to ensure they match your performance.

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