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As an Apprentice in Global Finance & Business Management, you'll work with colleagues across various lines of business — driving growth, ensuring operational effectiveness, managing risk and maintaining our global reputation for excellence. You’ll gain insight into how our businesses come together to serve our clients around the world and will have the opportunity to contribute to firmwide success

Working here means joining a collaborative, supportive team. We welcome diverse perspectives that can help us provide innovative solutions for our stakeholders. We'll give you what you need to succeed including training, mentoring, access to senior leaders and projects that engage all your skills.

Through joining the 2-year Program, you will have the unique opportunity to sharpen your technical, analytical and leadership skills through a combination of in-depth industry training, mentorship and hands-on experience. You’ll build your foundational knowledge, professional skills and experiences in one of the following Finance teams:

• Product Control is responsible for ensuring overall integrity and validity of the risk associated to daily/weekly/monthly P and L and Balance Sheet. As a product controller you will provide crucial support to the trading desk, Financial Control, Market Risk, and other functions, fostering strong communication and collaboration. A rotation in PC is a mandatory part of the program.
• Legal Entity Control is responsible for financial oversight of their legal entity and is tasked with ensuring that a strong control environment exists as it relates to all businesses, products and operational areas that impact the Legal Entity financials and regulatory reporting of the firm.
• Financial Control is responsible for ensuring overall integrity and validity of the general ledger and controls over the transaction cycle; performing critical reporting and controls functions.
• Planning and Analysis create meaningful analysis and reporting in support of our businesses. Coordinate with partners across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis, and coordination of financial planning and forecasting.
• Regulatory Reporting and Capital Policy is responsible for the preparation and submission of reporting to regulators, monitoring of regulatory capital requirements, interpretation, application and implementation of rules and policies, in parallel to providing guidance to the businesses.
• Program Management contribute to programs that are large scale initiatives that drive cross line of business or firm-wide agendas for implementation of new regulations, standards or policies.
• Business Management are trusted advisor to business heads by identifying, escalating, and mitigating business risks. They optimize business performance by leading key initiatives. This role requires strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, as well as the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Top performing Apprentices have the opportunity to be promoted to Analyst level at the end of the 2-year Program In addition, after completing the Apprenticeship Program, high-performing Apprentices will have the opportunity to join the Global Finance and Business Management Graduate Program. The Graduate Program provides an opportunity to undertake 3 one-year rotations within Finance and Business Management, whilst completing the CIMA qualification. It also provides further opportunity for top performers to promote to Associate level.

• A minimum of 5 GCSEs, to include Mathematics at a grade 6 (B) & English Language at a grade 4 (C)
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• 3 A-levels at grades A, B, B or I.B equivalent (or equivalent qualifications that equate to 128 UCAS) predicted or achieved
• You’ll need a passion for data analysis and accounting, a willingness to learn and a can-do attitude in order to thrive in our dynamic and collaborative work environment.

Please ensure that you apply for the position as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. The closing date is a rough guideline as to when an advert will close. The advert may close before the given closing date if the employer has filled the position(s).

BPP have a dedicated team who support students with disabilities, learning difficulties, health conditions and wellbeing. Please contact us at apprenticeshipapplications@bpp.com if you have any queries or would like more details.