Finance Graduate Scheme

Tesco Ireland; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid study leave

CIMA qualification support

On-campus resources

Job summary

Tesco invites you to join a three-year finance scheme where you’ll develop financial expertise and work toward the CIMA qualification. You will be supported with paid study leave and hands-on experience, building proposals, forecasts, and stakeholder relationships across Tesco Group.

Salary is £36,000 with a start date of 6 September 2027. The role blends office and remote work, and welcomes a flexible approach as you learn and grow within the team.

Qualifications

• Interest in working with numbers or solving problems.
• Comfort spotting patterns or trends.
• Clear communication — sharing ideas clearly.
• No prior experience with Tableau or SQL required; training provided.

Responsibilities

• Use financial data to build proposals and forecasts for stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Tesco Group and build relationships with stakeholders.
• Explore how to automate and simplify processes to improve efficiency.
• Analyze data to drive store improvements, craft annual budgets, and contribute to the yearly report.

Skills

Numerical skills

Pattern recognition

Communication skills

Willingness to learn

Job description

Our finance function impacts 330,000+ colleagues and millions of customers. During our 3-year scheme you’ll learn to solve unique business challenges with your financial expertise. We'll support you as you work towards your CIMA qualification, offering paid study leave and hands‑on experience.

Salary: £36,000 Programme start date: 6 September 2027

Use financial data to build proposals and forecasts to influence stakeholders. Work with Tesco Group and build relationships with stakeholders, for example Booker, Ireland, One Stop Review how we can automate and simplify processes to enhance ways of working. Analyse data to drive store improvements, craft annual budgets, or contribute to our yearly report.

This section is here to help you get a feel for what each scheme is about and what might suit you best. Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills listed - we don’t expect you to. We’re looking for potential, curiosity, and a willingness to learn. We’ll support you to build the rest.

• An interest in working with numbers or solving problems
• Being comfortable spotting patterns or trends is something we value
• Clear communication — especially when sharing ideas or explaining your thinking
• You don’t need to have used tools like Tableau or SQL before — we’ll support you to learn

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award‑winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information.

And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.

Working at our Welwyn Garden City campus

Our leafy, green campus is just 10 minutes’ walk from the centre of Welwyn Garden City with its many shops, restaurants, pubs and sports facilities. Close to the A1, and with frequent trains running to Finsbury Park in just 20 minutes (free shuttle buses take you between the station and office), the campus is well connected to the surrounding area.

On campus, you’ll find subsidised restaurants and coffee shops, as well as a Tesco Express to pick up your lunch or last‑minute essentials. You can join the on‑site Nuffield Health gym, which has state‑of‑the‑art fitness equipment, two studios for group classes, plus treatment rooms (membership costs £23.50 per month).