Job Description:
Are you dreaming about becoming a finance leader at one of the biggest FMCG companies?
The Mars Finance Leadership Experience (MFLE) is a great start to develop both functional and leadership capabilities while experiencing various areas of finance. The programme is a solid foundation for future finance leaders who can later become a manager, lead a team, or fulfil themselves as an individual contributor in a strategic position.
You’ll take on roles with local and regional exposure and make decisions with real consequences. The work will come thick and fast, preparing you for the challenges tomorrow.
The MFLE comprises of three 12-month placements, where you will be exposed to different areas of Finance. You will get placements in supply finance or market finance, financial control or internal audit or contribute to our finance digitalization agenda. On top, there is the potential opportunity for international experience through the programme’s regional scope.
After the three years you will be a versatile finance business partner and you can hold a strategic role within any of our segments or be on your way to being a finance manager with a team of your own.
What will you do?
3 x 12-month placements, giving you perspective to experience diversity of finance and craft your own personalized career path.
Opportunity to make impact from Day 1, allowing you to develop every day.
Join our global trainee community, create friends for life, and join a Global business.
Who are we looking for?
You’ll have have obtained a degree in any subject, graduating next summer or graduated within the last 2 years
Willingness to pursue the CIMA qualification.
Internationally mobile. You could be based out of our Slough, Waltham, Birmingham, or Paddington site, and we ask that you are flexible during your time on the program.
You have good analytical skills and a strong interest in finance.
You are not afraid to challenge the status quo and bring a fresh viewpoint.
What are the benefits?
Starting salary of £33,000 and joining bonus of £2,000.
Company paid CIMA (including study leave)
We’ll give you access to inspiring mentors and coaches to help you grow.
Flexible, hybrid working.
Dogs in the office (depending on the office)
What can you expect from Mars?
Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
For more information, please visit careers.mars.com/UK/en/students-graduates
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What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™.
We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
