Finance Graduate Programme

Choose a finance career that really counts

As a finance graduate at SSE, you’ll gain experience across a range of finance disciplines, including process automation, financial control, financial reporting, internal audit and internal controls. As the profession continues to evolve through AI and automation, you’ll also spend time in SSE’s Finance Centre of Excellence, exploring new technologies and innovative ways of working.

Over the course of the three year programme, you’ll build practical experience, develop a strong professional network and gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to shape a successful finance career.

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Do you want to become a finance leader of the future? Take your career prospects to the next level by training and developing with a large FTSE 100 company! Operate at the heart of our critical and ever evolving finance functions whilst attaining the prestigious Chartered Accountant (CA) professional qualification.

In your first year, you’ll complete a placement in the Finance Centre of Excellence, where you’ll make a real contribution from day one. You’ll build your understanding of financial reporting, controls and systems, while gaining insight into how finance is evolving through AI and automation. You’ll be supported by a strong network of colleagues and have the opportunity to collaborate across the business, expanding your professional network. You’ll also kick-start your ICAS block studies and exams on your pathway to chartership.

In your second and third year, you’ll complete placements across SSE’s core business units, including Renewables, Transmission, Distribution and Thermal, with the opportunity to gain experience in Group functions such as Group Finance, Internal Controls and Internal Audit.

By the end of your third year with SSE you will be expected to become a fully qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) with ICAS. With the networks that you’ve built from your work placements and equipped with your CA qualification, you will be able to take your career to the next level in a diverse and inclusive company that offers an abundance of opportunities for career development. Follow the pathway of previous ICAS SSE Graduates who have achieved strong positions within the SSE Group including ‘Commercial Finance Manager’, ‘Financial Controller and ‘Head of Corporate Finance’,

The UK's ambition to deliver clean, affordable and secure electricity relies on strong commercial and financial expertise, and you can play an important role in making it happen. Finance is at the heart of SSE's plans to invest around £33bn in the UK's electricity infrastructure. Your ideas, fresh perspective and innovative thinking will help us make better decisions, create long term value and support our purpose to make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.

Careers in finance at SSE

Finance plays a vital role at SSE, helping us make informed decisions that support our strategy and our purpose of making electricity clean, affordable and available for all. That’s why we’re looking for ambitious graduates who want to build a rewarding career and help shape the future of our business.

Join our Finance Graduate Programme and work towards your chartered accounting qualification with our support. Along the way, you’ll gain valuable experience, develop specialist expertise and build a strong professional network. Previous graduates have progressed into roles including Commercial Finance Manager, Financial Controller and Head of Corporate Finance. With the right opportunities, support and development, you could do the same.

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Meet our finance graduates

What’s it like to work at SSE? Well, we could tell you about the training opportunities, the exciting projects, career progression routes, our commitment to your personal wellbeing, fantastic benefit packages, and the opportunities to socialise at work.

But life at SSE is all about our people, so let’s hear straight from our rising stars.

Catch up with some of our graduates talking about how they’re making an impact with SSE – and imagine what you career could look like with the UK and Ireland’s green energy champion.