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Join a leading delivery company as an Assistant Management Accountant in a 12-month student placement. This role offers exposure to various finance functions, allowing you to develop key business partnering skills while contributing to a dynamic finance team. Enjoy a competitive salary and numerous employee benefits, including holiday trading and enhanced parental leave.
Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK's most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service.
You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of nearly £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career.
DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible.
DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer.
We now have an excellent opportunity for you to begin your career in Finance with an Industrial Student Placement as Assistant Management Accountant based in our Head Office at Smethwick. The placement will be a 12 month fixed term contract starting Summer 2025.
In this role you will be fully immersed in the day-to-day activities of a busy Finance department where you will begin to develop business partnering and commercial skills. This is a great opportunity to gain exposure across a number of areas within Finance on a rotational basis.
During your time with the teams you will be encouraged to think innovatively, to challenge the status quo and will have the opportunity to bring creative and practical ideas to fruition taking full responsibility for their implementation and success.
Job specifics
As the successful candidate you will be able to evidence that you are on course for a minimum 2:1 classification in any degree discipline and currently in your penultimate year at university. Additionally, you will be required to meet the following requirements:
You will need to be on a four-year degree programme that features a sandwich placement element, in addition to the above educational requirements, the successful candidate must, by the start of their employment, have permission to work in the UK.
We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business; without them we wouldn't be able to deliver our award-winning service to all our customers.
Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.
If you identify with our aims and values and can deliver a best-in-class customer experience, then this is the job for you! Apply today.