2026 - Finance Student Placement

Toyota GB plc; Burgh Heath; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive company in the UK is seeking a finance student for a 12-month placement. This opportunity provides industry experience with a focus on financial analysis, budgeting, and decision-making processes. Candidates should be pursuing a finance-related degree and possess strong communication skills. The role is based at the Eco HQ in Surrey and offers various benefits including hybrid working and a supportive community environment.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy

Subsidised Café & Restaurant

25 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Defined contribution pension scheme

Qualifications

• Completing a finance related degree with a year in industry.
• Confident in communicating with a diverse customer base.
• Proven ability to work as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver monthly reports and analyze financial results.
• Support commercial decision-making processes.
• Get exposure to budgeting and cost control.

Skills

Positive outlook

Problem solving mind-set

Team focused

Communication skills

Customer service orientation

Education

Finance related degree

Job description

If you want a student placement where you do loads of photocopying and making people cups of tea, this one really isn’t for you!!

Each year we invite Students to complete their placement year with us in our Eco HQ in Surrey. We nickname these students our ‘Future Talent’ because they often go on to do great things, either here at TGB, on our Graduate scheme or in the wider working world.

We are proud to offer a 12 month placement as part of your undergraduate degree, giving you Industry experience in a global brand (but with community feel) organisation. As part of the emerging talent community, you’ll get access to our 70 : 20 : 10 learning and development framework

• you’ll have the support of the student community and roll your sleeves up to get involved in specific projects & fundraising to make a genuine difference.

Weather you know the exact path you want to take, just want to dip your toe into working life or you’ve not really thought about what happens after uni, we’re able to provide you with experience in a generalist sales and marketing business, we’re inclusive and we’ll give you the tools for you to grow into a well-rounded employable graduate.

You might also be a complete petrol head (which is great, but you don’t have to be), love innovation and believe that there’s ‘Always a better way’? If so, read on for more information about our placements and how we make it as easy as possible for you to apply!

About Toyota – In a nutshell

You may already follow Toyota or Lexus on social media or in the news and have heard about the great things that we continue to achieve globally, well, what we do here at Toyota helps achieve those great things! Here at out ECO HQ in Surrey, we support the car dealership network as the sales and marketing functions for both Toyota and Lexus in the UK. We are a diverse team with a common goal, to do business the way that customers love.

There’s loads of really great stuff on our blog

Finance Student – Whistle stop overview

We can’t make a business decision without knowing the numbers!

As the finance student, not only will you be delivering monthly reports and analysing our business’s financial results, but you’ll be supporting our overall commercial decision making processes. You can expect exposure to vital financial processes including, budgeting, cost control and getting to grips with general analysis. You’re going to get experience working in a high performing finance division as well as nailing the fundamental accounting principles on the way.

We have 1 finance roles available within Toyota GB. You can find more detail about the each of the roles on the Job Profile at the bottom of the page!

You want in?

To be considered for this role, you’ll need to be :

• You’ll need to be completing a finance related degree (which includes a year in industry)
• Confident in communicating with a wide demographic of customers
• Positive outlook and problem solving mind-set.
• Really team focused and able to build relationships
• Passionate about customers & obsessed with delivering a service the way that customers LOVE!
• Residing in the UK and either living within or willing to relocate to within a commutable distance of our ECO HQ

What you’ll get - Great people deserve great things

• Our hybrid working policy, means you’ll split your time working from home and at our state-of-the-art Eco Campus
• £1k to support your relocation, to within a commutable distance of our EcoHQ if you’re joining one of our Emerging Talent programmes
• On site subsidised Café & Restaurant, gym & in-house Wellbeing Ambassador, all set within RHS Kew & the Surrey Wildlife curated landscaped gardens
• Access to attractive car schemes for you (& your family) for Toyota & Lexus cars
• 25 days annual leave (+ bank holidays), which increases with length of service
• Defined contribution pension scheme + the option to add Additional Voluntary Contributions
• Private Medical Insurance for you & your immediate family fully funded by TGB
• Death in Service at 10 x base salary & Income Protection
• Optional company funded health related benefits, including Dental Insurance HealthCare Cash Plan, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) & Flu Jabs – all at no cost to you
• Extended flexible benefits package including; cycle-to-work scheme, eye tests, holiday trading and Sports & Social Club (accessing annual ski trips, football tournaments, arts & crafts, discounted tickets to events & shows plus a whole lot more!)
• Long service recognition awards
• 2 volunteering days per year and various Corporate & Social Responsibility initiatives.
• Regular 121s with your manager, a personal development plan reviewed quarterly with a range of training & support (as per the TGB Management Deal)

Our TGB Community

TGB is committed to fostering a diverse & inclusive workplace where innovation thrives through diversity of thought. We believe in building a community culture that supports high performance by nurturing psychological safety, being mindful of barriers to inclusion, & encouraging allyship. We judge applications on merit, make no assumptions, & don’t discriminate against any protected characteristics. As a proud participant in the Disability Confident Scheme, we’re dedicated to creating an environment where everyone feels valued, supported and included.

If there’s anything outside of our standard recruitment process that we can do to enable you to be your best our door is open to have the conversation.