Finance Graduate ProgrammeEarly Careers

Ready to accelerate your Finance career? Join one of the UK's biggest retailers and gain hands-on finance experience while studying towards a professional CIMA accountancy qualification.

Our 3-year Finance Graduate role is functionally led, so you’ll develop deep expertise while rotating through a range of specialisms – including Controllership, Commercial Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis, and Specialist Finance teams such as Tax Treasury and Investor Relations. Through a series of structured placements, you’ll build your technical knowledge, commercial awareness and leadership capability, taking on significant responsibility as your career progresses.

At the same time, you’ll study towards your CIMA accounting qualification with Kaplan Financial, working towards becoming a Chartered Management Accountant while applying your learning in a real business environment from day one.

“Everything about Asda”

We are a values-led organisation. As such, we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone’s input. Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant. With annual sales of £26bn and websites that handle over 2 million transactions a month, we are a business with over 130,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

“Everything you'll love”

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• Company pension up to 7% matched

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking to theme parks and cinemas.

• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.

Plus much more!

“Find your role”

Finance plays a critical role in every decision we make at Asda. Whether that's helping us invest in growth, understanding customer behaviour, improving performance, or ensuring strong financial control, our teams are at the heart of the business.

Throughout the role, you'll gain exposure to a variety of areas, including:

• Commercial Finance – Partnering with teams across the business to influence decisions, support trading performance, and deliver great outcomes for customers.

• Controllership & Accounting – Ensuring financial accuracy, maintaining robust controls, and providing insight into business performance.

• Specialist Finance teams – where you can build expertise across areas such as Tax, Treasury, Audit, Pensions, and Investor Relations.

You'll also get to know our stores, depots and supply chain, giving you a first-hand understanding of our customers, colleagues, and operations, and helping you see how finance decisions impact our business every day.

What you could be working on:

• Supporting financial planning, forecasting and budgeting activities

• Providing analysis and insight to support key business decisions

• Partnering with stakeholders across the business to improve performance

• Supporting month-end reporting and financial control processes

• Identifying risks and opportunities through data analysis

• Contributing to finance transformation and continuous improvement projects

• Producing reports and presentations for senior stakeholders

• Helping to maintain robust financial governance and controls

This role is designed to accelerate your career.

Alongside valuable on-the-job experience, you'll receive dedicated study time, access to senior mentors and buddies, structured development opportunities, and support throughout your CIMA qualification journey.

We'll challenge you, invest in you, and give you the confidence, skills, and experience needed to progress into future leadership opportunities within Finance and beyond.

With Finance at the centre of Asda's ‘Formula for Growth’, there's never been a more exciting time to join. We’ve recently completed our technology separation from our previous owner Walmart, investing in new systems, processes, and ways of working that will shape the future of the business and create opportunities for talented graduates to make a real impact.

“Let's find out about you.”

We're looking for ambitious, curious individuals who are excited by business, motivated by learning and eager to make a difference.

Your degree discipline doesn’t matter to us. Whether you’ve studied Finance, Economics, History, Engineering, Languages or anything else, you’ll receive full technical finance training as part of your CIMA qualification, so no prior accounting knowledge or experience is needed. What matters most is your curiosity, your commercial mindset and your motivation to build a career in Finance.

You'll be:

• Passionate about a career in the retail industry

• A strong analytical thinker with excellent problem-solving skills

• Curious and keen to understand how businesses operate

• Proactive and willing to take ownership of your work and development

• A confident communicator who can build strong relationships

• Collaborative and committed to working inclusively with others

• Resilient, adaptable and focused on continuous improvement

• Commercially aware and interested in how financial decisions drive business performance

• Motivated to study towards a professional qualification

• Ambitious and excited by the opportunity to develop into a future leader

What you'll gain:

• A fully supported CIMA Accountancy qualification

• Dedicated study time to support your professional qualification

• Access to mentors, buddies and senior Finance leaders

• Experience across multiple areas of the Finance function

• Hands-on responsibility and exposure to real business challenges from day one

• Structured development focused on technical, commercial and leadership capability

• The opportunity to build a strong professional network across Asda

• A clear pathway into future Finance and leadership opportunities

“Find your everything at Asda”

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are passionate about creating opportunities for everyone to thrive. If you are successful at each stage, you will progress to the next.

This will include:

• A short, blended personality and numerical assessment

• Three, quick video interview questions

• A half-day assessment centre, where you will meet the team and find out more about the opportunity

If you are successful, we will ask you to come and join Asda in September 2027.

You will need to work a minimum of three days per week in Asda House, Leeds. The three-day office attendance requirement may vary based on the specific team and its operational requirements.

Applications may close before the deadline so please register your interest as soon as possible.

All candidates must have the continuous right to work in the UK and any offer of employment is conditional upon this requirement. Asda do not provide sponsorship for our graduate and apprenticeship opportunities.