Finance Graduate

Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains; Brixworth; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ICAEW ACA training programme

Collective bonus

Company lease car scheme

Private healthcare and pension scheme

Onsite Gym

Staff discounts

Job summary

Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) in Northamptonshire (Brixworth) invites applications for a three-year graduate Finance scheme. You will work across multiple areas including Product Costing, Treasury, and Financial Reporting, gaining broad commercial exposure and developing strong analytical skills.

You will be enrolled in the ICAEW ACA training programme and supported by senior stakeholders to drive cost accuracy, budgeting and financial transparency across the business.

Qualifications

• Degree in accounting/finance/economics/maths/physics or numerate subject with First or 2:1.
• Strong A-Level maths/science background or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide product costing updates and budget implications with Engineering changes.
• Track, analyse and report weekly cost variances to senior stakeholders.
• Analyse actual vs budget variances to forecast powertrain costs.
• Support FP&A and audits; maintain consolidation tools and budgets.

Skills

Data analysis

Data cleansing

Communication skills

Excel skills

PowerPoint skills

Education

Numerate degree (Accounting/Finance/Economics/Maths/Physics)

Job description

Job no: 498339
Work type: Student
Location: Brixworth
Categories:

The Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) graduate role is the ultimate opportunity to start your finance career in one of the most exciting sectors whilst gaining commercial experience. Your passion can help push the boundaries of science and technology on the race track and the road.

The Finance function is closely aligned to overall business operations and works directly with senior stakeholders and engineering to providing accurate analysis and financial reports to our business partners both internally and externally. We deliver transparency, control and information to aid the decision making process.

The graduate role will be across three years and you will get exposure across multiple projects in the business, including:

• Formula 1 Product Design & Engineering
• Business Operations
• Automotive, Project One & Future Projects
• Treasury, Transactions and Financial Reporting

You will also be enrolled in the ICAEW ACA training program which you will complete during your graduate scheme.

When completing the graduate scheme you will:

• Work closely with the respective Programme Management to provide product costing updates and budget implications based on the latest Engineering changes;
• Work across different functional areas and develop your costing skills by tracking, analysing and reporting detailed weekly cost variances to senior stakeholders;
• Provide transparency of actual to budget variances and perform detailed analysis to find the underlying drivers, trends and forecast of future powertrain costs;
• Gain exposure to and optimise the Formula One financial regulations
• Maintain the company consolidation tools and company budgets;
• Support with the company’s business operations & investment team including month end tasks and work alongside business partners;
• Prepare weekly and monthly KPIs, ratio analysis and support with accruals and prepayments;
• Work closely with management to prepare cash flows, conduct month end Balance Sheet reconciliations and creditor/debtor analysis;
• Support with the company’s month end / year end tasks, including supporting audit documentation.

The candidate:

Qualifications

• Achieved a First or 2:1, in a (or combination of) Accounting, Finance, Economics, Maths, Physics or other numerate degree;
• A strong academic background in relevant A Level disciplines, for example maths or sciences (or equivalent qualifications).

Attributes

• Able to demonstrate pro-activeness, go getter, experience of process improvements and dealing with senior stakeholders;
• Solution driven and focused;
• Not afraid to collaborate with or challenge senior stakeholders;
• Adaptable to respond to ad-hoc requests for financial information in a quick and effective manner;
• Excellent communicator, not afraid to take responsibility and deliver to tight timelines;
• Team player and be adaptable to meet business demands;
• People who are willing to go the extra mile to help the team succeed.

Skills

• Data extraction, data cleansing and data analysis;
• Communication skills by reviewing your analysis conducted with senior stakeholders;
• Exceptional Excel and PowerPoint skills.

Experience

• Supporting stakeholders in identifying countermeasures to address issues which pose a risk or opportunity to the programme budgets
• Supporting business partners with a view to evolving and improving business processes with a particular focus on cost accuracy, increasing financial transparency and improving the efficiency of management reporting;
• Providing ad-hoc financial analysis of programme spending to senior stakeholders as and when required;
• Report writing to non-financial stakeholders;
• Influencing and challenging senior stakeholders;
• FP&A.

Additional information

We offer you the opportunity to work alongside and learn from the Finance team in a fast paced environment and become fully integrated into the team.

During this placement you will be given the opportunity to gain real responsibility for delivering support to the business whilst being encouraged to maximise your potential.You will be partnering with multiple different departments along the value chain and helping them achieve their business objectives and goals.
As a team we pride ourselves on sharing knowledge and developing our students during their three year graduate placement and helping you develop your key business skills.

We are based in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, in a state of the art research and development centre. This role is entirely onsite

Our benefits package includes

• ICAEW ACA training programme
• Collective bonus
• Company lease car scheme
• Access to private healthcare and generous pension scheme
• Onsite Gym
• A variety of other benefits and staff discounts

Remember when on completing your application; think carefully about the relevant skills you can bring to the role from your academic career, work experience or extracurricular activities. We want to find out about you and what you are passionate about. Use plain English and make sure you give full details of your degree modules, your input into all relevant projects and work experience. We will want to see what your strengths are, what you’ve done and how this fulfils what we are looking for.

Advertised: 23 Sep 2026 GMT Daylight Time
Applications close: 23 Nov 2026 GMT Standard Time

In August we will open our application window for our next intake of Early Careers vacancies! We have over 50 opportunities available, across all disciplines, for exceptional students to join our Eight-time World Championship winning team at our state–of-the-art Technology Centre in Northamptonshire.

Want to find out more about what our F1 Trackside Team do here at HPP, view the video below from Barney our Head of Product Validation to get an in-depth insight into the world of the F1 Engineering.

HPP team members and their partners gathered for an evening of appreciation and connection at Rushton Hall for our Long Service Celebration.