Commercial Business Performance Placements

by Volkswagen Financial Services

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Deadline: 31st December 2021
Salary: £17,500
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Banking, Data Science, Business Management, Financial Management
Location: South East
City: Milton Keynes

Commercial Business Performance Placements

Here at Volkswagen Financial Services, our mission is straight forward. We want to be ‘The Key to Mobility’. At the heart of that is our Risk & Controlling function, supporting us to achieve our business objectives by providing an enterprise view of our profitability and financial planning.

Joining as one of our Commercial Business Performance Undergraduates will give you the opportunity to support sales growth, increase margins and drive business development across both our Retail and Fleet customer portfolios.

We’ll support you to take on real responsibility and build valuable skills to support your future career. If you have an analytical eye, interest in automotive and are studying a Business or Finance related degree, this could be the perfect placement for you.

This is what your day might look like:

  • Design and develop scheduled and ad hoc reporting on profit and performance
  • Update and analyse reports and processes used to drive decision making across the business
  • Aid with the creation of business cases and growth plans to improve business performance
  • Conduct data collation, interrogation and analysis on specified datasets within the Contract Hire, Finance Lease, Corporate and Value Added Products areas in both Retail and Fleet
  • Support the Commercial Manager to track, review and evaluate Retailer Terms on a quarterly basis
  • Attend meetings with subject matter experts from across the business to create/update procedures
  • Carry out the auditing, reconciliation and invoicing of Tactical investments, exceeding c. £100m per annum

About you:

  • Studying towards a Business/Finance related degree
  • Be able to demonstrate research and analytical skills
  • Attention to detail and highly numerate
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to engage with large teams
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with a creative approach to process improvement
  • Strong IT skills, especially with MS Office applications (i.e. Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
  • An interest in the automotive sector

What you’ll get: (apart from a wealth of experience for the future…)

  • Earn whilst you learn and receive a competitive salary of £17,500 per annum plus discretionary bonus and access to company pension scheme.
  • A fun and sociable workplace to start your career - You’ll be joining a cohort of around 50 undergraduates so you’ll have a large group of colleagues so that you can support each other throughout your placement year.
  • Participate in LifeSkills workshops, designed specifically for our Undergraduates.
  • Access to a discounted loan car scheme which means driving 2 brand new vehicles during your placement (a great way to make your mates jealous when you visit them at Uni)
  • Chance to make a difference in the local community with various volunteering opportunities.
  • Onsite wellbeing centre – think lunchtime massages, onsite HIIT classes and health check-ups.
  • There will be a hybrid blend of working in our office based in Milton Keynes and working from home.

Volkswagen Financial Services is an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from everyone.

About Volkswagen Financial Services

Here at VWFS, we provide finance and insurance services to customers across the entire Volkswagen Group in the United Kingdom. The Group includes some of the world’s most iconic automotive brands, like: Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Volkswagen, Bentley, Lamborghini, Porsche, Bugatti, Ducati, Scania and MAN.

We strongly advise that you do not apply for more than one placement role to ensure that you are considered for the placement that you are more interested in and your skills are aligned to.

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