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2025 Finance Graduate Program (Feb 2005)

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  • Australia

    Australia

    • Victoria

      Melbourne

Location

Melbourne

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Opportunity details

  • Opportunity typeGraduate Job or Program
  • SalaryAUD 75,000 - 85,000 / Year
  • Number of vacancies5-10 vacancies
  • Application open dateApply by 4 Apr 2024
  • Start dateStart date 11 Feb 2005

About the Program:

From day one as a Coles graduate, you’ll feel the connection your work has to our purpose, to "helping Australians eat and live better every day". You will be accountable for making decisions in providing food, drink and home solutions that are delicious, sustainable and healthy for our customers and ensuring to deliver a consistent experience for our customers every day, both in-store and online.

Our Store Support Centre (SSC), based in Hawthorn East in Melbourne, is the engine room of Coles Group and a dynamic and rewarding place to work.

Why become a Coles Graduate? 

At Coles, we understand that when you’re included, trusted and supported by leaders who genuinely care, you can do your best work for the team feeling like you belong. 

During the three-year* Finance Graduate Program program, you’ll be working on real deliverables with clear ownership and accountability as you learn and grow through functional rotations, a tailored development program and a tight-knit support network. You will also be able to work in cross-functional groups to complete an Innovation Project, where the top teams present to our Executive team on a genuine business challenge.

We will support your passion and graduate journey with experiences and opportunities, with each rotation expanding your knowledge as you continue to discover Coles and yourself. 

Discover our Finance function:

Our Finance team makes it easier for us to win together as a business.  We work side-by-side with every other team to help bring commercial thinking into what they do and make moves that support our strategic business decisions.  

With a team of over 400, Finance offers large scope for personal development and career opportunities. Working with key business units you will gain insight in to how our business runs and be part of key strategic initiatives.

You will handle all sorts of questions such as: How do you ensure reliable and accurate financial reporting to the wider business?; and How do you determine the best course of action to drive Coles’ sales and profit? 

The three-year Finance Graduate Program commences in February 2025. 

Applications will open Wednesday 6 March 2024 and will close Thursday 4 April 2024 midnight, APPLY NOW!

Eligibility Criteria: You’ll be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or hold permanent residency at the time of application For our Store Support Centre Graduate Program, you’ll have completed a bachelor's degree before commencing the program.

*The length of the Finance program is three years as Graduates will be supported in completing a CA/CPA qualification throughout the program.

Work rights

The opportunity is available to applicants in any of the following categories.

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Australia
Australian CitizenAustralian Permanent Resident
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New Zealand
New Zealand Citizen

Qualifications & other requirements

You should have or be completing the following to apply for this opportunity.

Degree or Certificate
Qualification level
Qualification level
Bachelor or higher
Study field
Study field (any)

Hiring criteria

  • Experience requirementNo experience required
  • Working rights
    New Zealand Citizen
  • Study fields
    Business & Management
  • Degree typesBachelor or higher
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Reviews

user
Graduate
Melbourne
3 months ago

Depending on your rotation it will vary, currently working with microservices written in java and spring boot.

user
Graduate
Melbourne
4 months ago

Mostly happy with the type of work i am completing. i am able to get through all my tasks and support my team where they need. i have a set of daily and monthly tasks.

user
Graduate
Melbourne
4 months ago

Our main role is to learn new skills and take on new challenges. each rotation you complete will have different day-to-day responsibilities. this could range from reporting to creating presentation packs, or engaging with stakeholders, project management, site visits etc.

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About the employer

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Coles

Rating

4.1

Number of employees

> 100,000 employees

Industries

Retail & Consumer Goods

Choose a job you love! Be part of a unique, two year, accelerated development program!

Pros and cons of working at Coles

Pros

  • Coles is extremely flexible and caters well to the cohort in the office.

  • There are many development and growth opportunities available to graduates to continuously improve and enhance their career.

  • Line managers and leaders are always willing to give you time to upskill and grow.

  • The flexibility of the role is a definite highlight, allowing me to not only thrive in my role but also put myself first.

  • The culture here is great and people are willing to help me when I ask.

Cons

    • Being such a large organisation can be daunting and learning how it operates to be able to complete your role can be frustrating at times.

    • The systems are a little outdated.

    • It's such a large business it can feel not very personable.

    • Of course, this is heavily influenced by the individuals that make up a respective intake of graduates, but there is great opportunity and breadth of graduates from different departments to be exposed to and build meaningful connections with.

    • Can be very fast paced and complicated to navigate such a large organisation.