Finance Placement

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Finance Placement

Ready to grow your potential? Join us as a Finance Intern and be brave, real, and join a community of interns just like you. Work alongside finance professionals who keep our commercial cogs turning, make a lasting impact and earn £25,000 whilst doing it!

Make things happen

Get hands-on experience in our Finance Business Partnering teams during our 13-month intern scheme. Take guidance and support from experienced colleagues, enjoying new opportunities to help us drive projects forward, and solve problems using your own logic and initiative. By the end, you’ll have brand new skills, advanced knowledge and loads more confidence – all helping you power through the final year of university.

During this internship, you’ll also have the unique opportunity to complete a Finance Leadership Programme (FLP) with CIMA, completely funded by Virgin Media O2. Through an online platform, you’ll be able to expand baseline finance knowledge. If you come back for our Finance Graduate scheme, you’ll also be set up with exemptions from the CIMA qualification.

We operate a hybrid working environment, aiming for a minimum of 2 to 3 days per week in the office, with strong emphasis on maintaining flexibility based on our dynamic business needs. 

“From the get-go, I quickly became a valued and relied on member of the team, with many opportunities to add value and drive forward the success of the organisation. The Finance Grad and Intern Community provides a strong support network, from the Leads who encourage constant growth and development, to your peers who help motivate you along the way. My placement year opened my eyes to the potential opportunities in Finance and Accounting, allowing to develop many vital skills that I was able to take back to university and apply to my degree.”

Jahnvi, Former Finance Intern, now Finance Graduate

Bring your authentic self

We’re brave, and we want to see Interns that are motivated and resilient and curious to learn. We’re real – we want to see your confidence to question the ways we work, and your drive to succeed. We’re together, so it’s important you’re hard-working and have the urge to explore new opportunities. 

You must have a predicted 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. A desire to route your finance career towards a CIMA qualification is preferred as this will help align you to joining our graduate scheme after you complete your degree.

With inclusivity at our hearts, 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. The only barrier to applying would be if you didn’t have the right to work in the UK and were unable to obtain it without our support. 

What’s in it for you

This isn’t just a 13-month internship, it’s a stepping-stone to a successful career with Virgin Media O2. Successful interns will be given the opportunity to return on our Finance Graduate scheme once they’ve completed their degree, with only a final interview – no more testing, telephone interviews or assessment centres. You’ll receive a salary of £25,000 plus a £1,000 welcome bonus. Plus, get access to all of our employee benefits, including: 

• 25 days' holiday, increasing to 28 days’ after 5 years 
• Your birthday off
• Flexible benefits package including matching up to 10% of your pension contributions, medical plans, and buying and selling holiday  
• Huge discounts on everything from days out to household bills, including Virgin Media O2 products and services 

…and loads more!  

About Virgin Media O2

We’re Virgin Media O2. For 20 years, we’ve grown our business on pioneers and big thinkers – and we remain at the cutting edge of fibre-optic broadband today. Through our multi award-winning services, we connect millions of homes and businesses across the UK and Ireland.

At Virgin Media O2, we’re about supporting the wellbeing of our people, empowering you to learn and grow, and making sure you bring your authentic self to work, every single day. Don’t believe us? 94% of our Future Careers workforce would recommend Virgin Media O2 as a great place to work!

We know what I means to be part of a team. Your job is more than the role you have, and we’re here to support you. We’re one team, with three values.

• We’re brave. We speak out when it counts, take risks and always do the right thing, not the easy thing.
• We’re real. We do what we say we will, put ourselves in our customers’ shows and give everyone a voice.
• We’re together. We celebrate each other’s differences, recognise each other’s achievements and win as a team.

We’re excited about your future too. Our Future Careers schemes are designed to give graduates, interns and apprentices the knowledge, skills, experience and exposure needed to make it big. We’ve got unmissable opportunities across all areas of our business, so there’s bound to be a role for you – let’s see what you can do! 

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.

Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.