Finance graduate programme

Choose a finance career that really counts.

As a finance graduate at SSE, you’ll work across several finance functions, including process automation, financial control, financial reporting, internal audit and internal controls. As finance continues to evolve through AI and automation, you’ll spend time in SSE’s newly established Finance Centre of Excellence, gaining exposure to innovative ways of working. Throughout the three-year programme, you’ll gain hands-on experience, build an invaluable network, and develop a unique set of skills to shape your 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 global ambitions to drive a greener net zero world can only thrive with strong, conscious and adaptative financial expertise and you can play a big part in contributing to the SSE’s and the UK’s delivery of a world changing plan. The SSE Finance functions plays a critical role in the £17.5bn Net Zero Acceleration Plus Programme. Your ideas, new skills and innovative thinking will be valuable contributions that will help us to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come.

Careers in finance at SSE

Finance is a critical function in SSE, allowing us to drive towards our ambitious net zero goals. That's why we need talented, ambitious graduates to join our team and help us power change.

Join our programme and gain your chartered accounting qualification with us. Previous graduates have progressed their careers within SSE to take on roles such as Commercial Finance Manager, Financial Controller and Head of Corporate Finance. You could too.

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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.