Finance Student Placement

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.

You want in?

To be considered for this role, 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 focussed 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

About TGB – In a nutshell

You may already follow Toyota on social media or in the news and have heard about the great things that Toyota continue to achieve globally, well, what we do here at TGB 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 here.

What you’ll get - Great people deserve great things

Enabling you to be the best you can be is top on the list at TGB, so it’s more than just an externally benchmarked salary and bonus that puts smiles on the faces of people that work here:

  • Access to attractive car schemes for you (& your family)
  • Eco HQ, free parking & restaurant offering a fantastic working environment
  • Generous annual leave which increases with service and holiday trading option.
  • Flexible working initiatives*
  • 2 volunteering days per year and various Corporate & Social Responsibility initiatives.
  • Private medical healthcare, Employee Assistance Program & eye tests
  • Exclusive discounts & discount website
  • Onsite gym, Sports and Social Club, cycle to work scheme & flu jabs to keep you healthy
  • Regular 121s with your manager, a personal development plan reviewed quarterly with a range of training & support (as per the TGB Management Deal)
  • Annual events and random acts of kindness throughout the year (e.g, summer party, Green month BBQ)

*We don’t take a cookie cutter approach to working flexibly because this means different things to different people. Its best to talk to us about the flexibility you’d like at the interview and although we can’t promise that we’ll be able to give you exactly what you want, we will definitely promise not to judge you for asking. We love it that lots of our people work flexibly!

Toyota loves diversity -

To innovate, we need diversity of thought so a diverse and inclusive workplace is hugely important to us. We won’t discriminate against any protected characteristics, will judge applications on merit and won’t make any assumptions.

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