Are you eager to grow your career in a global Corporate Finance team?
RELX is looking for its future CFO – could this be you?
About our Team: RELX is a global company that develops information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers in various sectors. As a FTSE 100 company with over 36,000 employees, our objective is to provide valuable insights and solutions to our clients.
About the Role: As a finance program participant, you will gain a well-rounded foundation in finance. You will have the opportunity to explore different areas and kickstart your career. The program spans three years, providing a comprehensive learning experience. RELX will support you in the completion of either the ACA or CIMA qualification.
Find out more from others who recently completed the programme: https://stories.relx.com/finance-graduates/index.html
Responsibilities
* Exploring various finance functions through three 12-month placements
* Completing tasks related to financial planning and analysis, reporting, audit, tax, and business partnering
* Supporting decision-making processes and ensuring financial compliance
* Engaging in accounting activities and providing financial support to different teams
Requirements
* Have achieved or are expected to achieve a 2.1 or above
* Be a new alumnus or set to complete studies in 2025
* Have obtained a minimum of 3 A levels (or equivalent), as well as a A* or A in GCSE Maths (or equivalent)
* Be proficient in standard office software, especially Excel
* Be passionate about learning and open to on-the-job training for additional software packages/platforms
Work in a way that works for you: We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working for you: We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
* Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
* Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
* Wellbeing programs
* Life assurance
* Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
* Save As You Earn share option scheme
* Travel Season ticket loan
* Electric Vehicle Scheme
* Optional Dental Insurance
* Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
* RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
* Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
* Access to extensive learning and development resources
* Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
About the Business
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.
Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.
We continuously strive to ensure our work is sustainable and since the start of the year, RELX has achieved a AAA MSCI ESG rating for a sixth consecutive year; moved up to first in its industry sector in Sustainalytics ESG rankings; and improved its ranking to third in the Responsibility100 Index, which measures the FTSE 100 against the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Find out more about what we are doing here.
Career development is highly important to us and we take our professional development process (the “Enabling Performance” process) very seriously; we want you to learn and progress quickly in the direction you want to go and we will provide you with the training and support to achieve that at the right pace. The great thing about RELX career-wise is that we’re a business made up of leading providers of information and analytics for a wide array of customer and markets. This breadth will enable you to develop in several dimensions: vertically through the business, across different products/markets, and across different functions within finance. We’re also a global business and on occasions we are able to offer overseas opportunities either as secondments or on a permanent basis.