Finance Graduate Recruitment Scheme
Finance influences nearly every area of the Partnership, from managing the performance of the business, to safeguarding the company’s assets, to paying suppliers and Partners.
Crucially, finance is also key to our ten-year growth strategy – which is why our Finance Graduate Scheme aims to nurture finance professionals with the commercial and technical abilities to not only help us achieve this growth but manage a business twice its current size.
Join us and you can expect to get involved in many areas of the business, from reporting on corporate risks to analysing the performance of individual products or shops.
As well as learning from people around the business, we’ll support you through your CIMA/ACCA approved training programmes. We provide generous study leave and will pay for all first attempt exam-related courses and fees.
What we’re looking for
As well as a minimum 2:1 degree (received or expected) in any discipline, you’ll need 260 UCAS points at A Level / Scottish Highers or other equivalent qualifications (excluding General Studies). A minimum of grade B in Mathematics at A level or equivalent mathematics qualification is also sought.
In addition, you’ll bring strong commercial awareness and analytical skills, excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a team. Personal integrity in line with the ethos of the John Lewis Partnership is vital.
Things to bear in mind
- Three distinct teams sit within Finance: one each at Waitrose and John Lewis, which provide commercial and operational support to those divisions; and a corporate team that looks after Partnership strategic and reporting issues and acts as a specialist service provider to the other two.
- You’ll be based at either our John Lewis or Corporate Head Office in central London or at the Waitrose Head Office in Bracknell.
- We want you to understand retail as well as having excellent financial skills, so to give you this all-round knowledge you’ll complete three relevant assignments during your training scheme.
