Function: Finance
Salary: £29,764
Role Type: Hybrid / On Site
Location: Manchester /York
At Northern, we are dedicated to developing and delivering a better rail service in the North of England, by employing driven and motivated people to improve what we do on a daily basis. We have an exciting opportunity for a Graduate to join our Finance team.
Northerns Graduate Management Scheme is a 24 month programme, designed to give you a unique insight into the Rail industry. During the programme you will work predominantly across one business function, but also get the opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills in other business functions too. The scheme will give you the change to gain highly valuable work experience and lifelong skills – helping you work towards becoming a great leader of the future.
You will have a unique chance to become a valued contributor to the business and its continued growth and development; as well as gain a strong understanding of the Rail industry. As part of the scheme, you’ll also be onboarded onto a Management course; so not only will you have on the job experience and working on various workplace project, you’ll also obtain a qualification in Management.
About the Placement
The placement will work across two key areas within the finance function – working with IS to support with Cyber Security and the Business Insights team to help the business utilise data more effectively to drive business decisions and efficiency.
Business Insights – You will be involved with:
- Building dashboards in Tableau to visualise data
- Supporting with data processing
- Designing surveys to collect data
- Engaging with stakeholders to understand data requirements
- Supporting Tableau users across the business
You’ll also get the opportunity to be involved in specific projects such as:
- Automating the productions of traincrew utilisation and advanced forecast reports – aimed to deliver time saving benefits of 4 hours per day and provide insight to improve on-the-day traincrew planning to reduce the likelihood of delays and cancellations
- Producing visualisations to monitor train delay and cancellations to drive decisions to improve performance.
- Improving Safety of the Line incident data collection process, to make it more efficient and allow for better understanding of incident causes to drive decisions to reduce them.
Cyber Security - You will be involved in:
- Understanding different ways of working at Northern and defining & producing ways of improving security education/awareness across the business.
- Ensuring security requirements are understood and implemented in IT projects.
- Exposure to the Onboards Systems team and understanding how security is addressed in operational technologies (as well as day-to-day IT systems).
- Developing and producing reporting that shows the improvements being made by the Security team.
- Reviewing the suppliers we use, how we use them, the systems they provide, mapping what these systems do and how they use data or connect to Northern to asses the risk they pose.
- Working with IT to look into the system/network vulnerabilities/weaknesses and how we might address them.
- Reviewing the current events in the industry and wider economy to assess the threat levels to Northern and if we need to take any additional actions.
You’ll be supported by the new Cyber Security Officer, who will provide on the job training. It’s also good to note, the Cyber team is growing. With Cyber Security an ever present risk to Northern and will remain a big part of Northern’s future.
About You
You’ll have an interest in cyber security, with an understanding of analysing data and producing your findings. As an ambitious and highly motivated individual, you have an appetite to learn and capacity to take ownership of everything you do. You’ll demonstrate the ability to be innovative and seek ways to improve what you do and how it’s done. With your excellent written and verbal communications skills, you’ll have the ability to effortless communicate with a wide variety of people. You should also be able to demonstrate the following:
- Some experience of data analysis and processing
- Be driven; demonstrating determination to succeed.
- A passion for building relationships with a wide variety of people from all varying levels.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- A global attitude for working in a multi-cultural environment.
- Have a high performance and achievement mentality; whilst also being creative and innovative.
- Step up when the challenges arise; show a desire for taking on responsibility.
- Be able to use MS Office.
- Some experience of using Tableau and Alteryx is desirable but not essential.
- Some experience of manipulating datasets and producing visualisations is desirable.
It is also essential that you have:
- Completed a 2:1 or higher Bachelor's degree or Master’s degree.
- Must have studied at a University in the North of England or live in the North of England.
You'll also need to share our values, too. They reflect what's important to the way we work, which means we look for the same in everyone who joins us...
Make it yours - We're proud to be who we are. We don't hide our personality, we let it shine and bring our best every day.
Make the difference - We never settle for okay. We pursue perfection, seek out better ways and always look to improve.
Make it last - What we do today affects tomorrow, so we look after the environment, our communities and each other.
Our Benefits Package
Because we value our people and reward hard work, we’ve created a benefits package that we think you’ll love. So, you’ll be able to make the most of:
- Opportunities to progress and grow - including comprehensive training schemes and a range of online learning courses.
- Agile working for non-train crew - many of our roles can now be based at both home and the office, which is great if you are looking for flexibility.
- Cycle to Work Scheme - save up to 42% on the cost of a bike, while also spreading your payments throughout the year.
- Free Travel on Northern services - everyone who works at Northern, plus their partners/spouses and dependents, can travel for free right across our full network of services. *Certain eligibility criteria will apply.
- 75% discount with other Train Operating Companies - after 2 years with us, you’ll also get discounted travel on many other rail services in the UK and Europe.
- Defined Benefit Pension Scheme - you’ll rarely find a pension as good as a Northern pension, and we top up your pension with a generous 1.5 times your contribution.
- A generous holiday entitlement - our incredibly generous holiday entitlements can help you feel like you can get away too.
- Exclusive benefits with Northern Perks - enjoy retail discounts, instant vouchers, cashback, wellbeing support and much more.
Plus so many more!
About Northern
At Northern, we play a vital role connecting millions of people to work, leisure and education opportunities.
We operate 2,500 services a day to more than 500 stations across the North of England. But our vision is about more than just train travel. It’s about setting a new standard for customer experiences. And that means building a different kind of workplace. One that values individuality and celebrates differences. Somewhere we can work together, have fun, and get stuck in to making our customers’ lives easier. A place that goes out of its way to create incredible opportunities for everyone to grow and be the best we can be every single day.
So, if you’re smart, forward thinking, passionate and full of fresh ideas like we are, you could play your part in making it happen.
Equal Opportunities
We’re an equal opportunities employer and a promoter of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are committed to encouraging and celebrating applications from different backgrounds, whatever their gender, ethnicity, race, religion, education, socioeconomic background, disability, or sexual orientation.
We also have Disability Confident status, which means we’re committed to making the most of the talents that disabled people can bring to the workplace.
Your on-line application
Ready to help our customers go do their thing? You can get started by telling us more about what your thing is.
The first thing you need to do is complete our online application form and tell us a little bit more about yourself.
Once we have all your details, we will be back in touch to let you know what to expect.
Important: Northern reserves the right to close the advert before the published closing date if high volumes of applications are received. In this situation partially completed applications will not be progressed forward or given extra time to complete.