2026 Finance Graduate

Team**:Finance**

Ref.**:VN1085**

Type**:Permanent**

Location**:Hatfield**

**Finance Graduate Scheme 2026**

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Scheme Start Date**:September 2026

**Location**:Hatfield (Blended working - 3 days in the office)

**Working hours per week**:40 hours

**Level**:Entry Level - Graduate

**Application Opening Date**:Monday 20th October

**Application Closing Date**:Sunday 9th November

**Starting Salary**:£32,500

**To read more about Ocado Retail and our Graduate schemes, visit our**Careers Page****

**About Us**

Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivalled service, and reassuringly good value.

**Finance at Ocado Retail**

The Finance team at Ocado Retail is embedded as key partners to teams across the business - from Buying to Marketing to Operations - adding value and delivering on both immediate and long-term strategy. Our commercial mindset, analytical eye, and control focus enable the business to deliver long-term, sustainable growth.

**What you’ll do**

The scheme covers 3 years and will see Ocado Retail support you to achieve the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) qualification alongside three 1-year rotations across different teams within Finance, whilst also gaining exposure to the various areas of the business. Your rotations will see you working across three of the following Finance areas:

- Commercial Finance - with a seat at the table you will be helping the business make decisions to improve product profitability and customer experience, driving business performance
- Financial Planning & Analysis - with a birds-eye view of the whole company you will be helping set business targets and reporting back to senior stakeholders on performance
- Commercial Operations - with an ear to the ground you will be helping make key investment decisions to expand our network, improve operational efficiencies, and ensure we are making the right commercial decisions with our stock
- Customer - with an eye on the customer journey, you’ll be helping to assess our marketing strategy, advertising campaigns, and customer propositions to improve our customer acquisition and retention efforts

**Who you are**
- Someone who is passionate about understanding the retail e-commerce environment, identifying business, market trends and understands customer behaviours and what makes a business profitable
- Someone with the ability to build and develop relationships across the business to deliver the best results for our customers
- Most importantly, those who exhibit our core values: always be curious, bring your best self and challenge what's possible

**Expectations During and After the Scheme**
- You’ll get three rotations in teams across Finance, learning on the job, supported by your manager. There is also optional access to a Mentor and a Buddy to support you with getting settled into the business and kick-starting your career.
- You will also have CIMA tuition through an external provider to help you complete your qualification, with an assigned Grad Lead. To help you study, you will have allocated time from your working hours and additional time off for study, revision, and exams.
- On top of that, you’ll be given exposure to the Finance Leadership Team through biannual demonstrations of your work, giving you crucial experience in creating presentations and speaking to senior members of the Finance team.
- Successful graduates will roll off the scheme after 3 years into a permanent position within the Finance team based on personal preference, performance during the scheme and ability level (dependent on role availability)

**What You Need To Apply**
- CV & Cover Letter - Why Ocado Retail? Why this scheme? What do you hope to achieve/gain?
- Commercial awareness and problem-solving ability
- Excel skills an advantage but not essential
- Graduate with a 2.1 or above from an accredited UK University
- The legal right to work in the United Kingdom upon scheme commencement and duration of the scheme

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**Our Learning & Development Promise**

There are great opportunities to grow careers within our high-performing and innovative business. These range from deepening your experience and expertise to potentially taking on management responsibility or even pivoting your career to do something completely different.

Our career management principles exist to help the realisation of career ambitions, whatever they might be.

**Driven by you**

**Supported by your manager**

You should feel that you can have open and productive conversations with your manager about your career and development. They are there to coach you, act as a mentor, signpost opportunities and be an advocate for you within the business.

**Backed by ORL**

We are committed to ensuring that the right tools are there for you. Our learning system ‘Walnut’ is your one-stop shop for all your learning needs.

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