Finance Graduate Scheme

Ready to grow your potential? Join us as a Finance Graduate to get hands-on with automation, data and future-ready finance processes. Alongside real responsibility from day one, you’ll earn £35,000 plus a £2,000 joining bonus, with salary progression as you study for your CIMA qualification!

Make things happen

Our graduate scheme lasts three years with three 12-month rotations across a range of Finance departments. During the scheme, you’ll focus on broadening your knowledge in different aspects of our Finance operation, building a wider understanding of the business, and contributing to our success.

You’ll kick off in Management Accounting, building strong business relationships and core accounting skills. You’ll also develop future-focused capabilities like value creation, storytelling with data and working with new technologies such as automation and AI, before taking on a role as a Finance Business Partner and finally gaining experience in a more specialist area, such as:

• Finance Transformation
• Group Reporting & Technical Accounting
• Strategy
• Capital Allocation & Financial Planning and Analysis

Experience our portfolio of brands across the UK with your first 12-month rotation based in Bradford, with your second and third rotation in London or Reading.

“The Virgin Media O2 Finance Graduate Scheme gave me invaluable experience across a wide range of teams and stakeholders. Each rotation brought new challenges and opportunities, helping me discover my passion for finance transformation. Since completing the scheme, I’ve led projects as an Anaplan Product Owner, supported strategic investment decisions through the Investment Committee, and now help drive AI adoption across Finance & Strategy. Above all, it’s the supportive and collaborative culture that has made such a difference throughout my career at Virgin Media O2."

Amy, Senior Finance Business Partner, Finance Transformation, Former Finance Graduate

Bring your authentic self

We’re brave, and we want to see Graduates that are prepared to step outside their comfort zones, question the way we work, and can take new challenges head-on. We’re real, so we look for your curiosity to learn and your passion for shaping the future of finance and technology. We’re together, leadership also means collaboration, so it’s important you can bring others with you, inspire your colleagues, and influence across the wider team. Other qualities we’d love to see include:

• Highly analytical
• Digital mindset
• Strong communication and compelling storytelling
• Ability to make data-driven decisions

You must have a 2:1 or above. But it doesn’t matter what subject – we’re more interested in your drive to develop and grow a successful career in Finance.

We’re a flexible-first organisation because we believe people do their best work with choice and clarity. To support meaningful collaboration, we ask everyone to connect in person at least eight days a month. That could mean time in the office, volunteering days, or away days - anywhere collaboration happens. What matters is making those moments together really count.

With inclusivity at the heart of everything we do, we’re 100% committed to having a workforce that represents every part of our society, so we’re keen to hear from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. We’re an equal opportunities employer, embedding equity and inclusion into everything we do - from the policies we craft to the relationships we build. We believe an inclusive, diverse culture makes for a better business and a brighter world. The only barrier to applying would be if you didn’t have the right to work in the UK.

What’s in it for you

You’ll receive a starting salary of £35,000 plus a £2,000 welcome bonus. In addition, we’ll provide funding for your CIMA qualification, which will be completed through the established scheme we’ve developed with you in mind. You’ll also receive significant pay progression as you complete each level of the CIMA qualification, with a generous study leave allowance to help you on your journey. Plus, get access to all of our employee benefits, including:

• A minimum of 25 days' holiday, plus your birthday off!
• Flexible benefits package including 10% matched pension contribution, holiday buying and selling, and discounts on shopping, travel and more
• Private Bupa healthcare
• Up to 26 weeks’ paid maternity & adoption leave, plus generous paternity and neonatal leave

…And plenty more to support you inside and outside of work.