Finance Team Apprentice | London

About our Finance team at Odgers

Our internal finance team makes sure the business runs smoothly by managing money matters. They handle everything from paying invoices and processing expenses to preparing budgets and financial reports. The team works closely with all parts of the company to keep track of costs and ensure we follow the right rules and processes.

Joining this team means you’ll learn how finance supports the whole organisation and helps us make good decisions

​About the Role

​This is a great chance to join our Finance team, working predominantly across credit control, where you’ll play a key part in supporting the finance function at Odgers.

​You will help manage important tasks like monitoring finance mailboxes, handling supplier forms, updating payment records, and supporting the team with day-to-day admin. You’ll learn how to use finance systems, communicate with colleagues and clients, and help keep our accounts running smoothly.

​This role is ideal for someone who is organised, keen to learn, and ready to build strong working relationships in a busy, friendly team.

You will be a self-starter who is diligent and has high attention to detail. The ideal candidate must have a positive can-do attitude with a commitment to success. Strong communication skills, including an excellent telephone manner, are essential for this role.  A confident team member who can work alongside key stakeholders in a fast-paced professional environment. Other attributes will include:

• Excellent time management skills with the ability to prioritise workload
• Build and maintain key relationships both internally and externally
• Attention to detail and advanced proof-reading skills
• Articulate and able to express information clearly and confidently with all levels of personnel
• Be cooperative, flexible and a team player who can collaborate with others
• Able to take initiative but happy to ask for help when required
• Excellent IT skills with an aptitude to learn & develop. MS Office suite – Outlook and Excel specifically
• Professional and courteous at all times
• Proactive and energetic in nature with a passion for problem-solving
• A high attention to detail, ensuring work is produced accurately and of the highest possible standard

Odgers is one of the world’s leading Global Executive Search firms. Our reputation for excellence and integrity has been established over 60 years and we are a partnership-driven by the client, candidate, and employee experience. We function as trusted advisors to our clients and candidates and engage with a diverse range of leaders for the most influential roles across a wide variety of industries. The service we deliver is creative, insightful, and most importantly, in partnership; we pride ourselves on maintaining personal relationships.

At Odgers, we are proud of our progressive, diverse, meritocratic, and collaborative culture where you will find support, training and career development working with colleagues striving for excellence in all they do. We are UK headquartered with colleagues across 58 Offices in 32 countries specialising in over 50 sectors and functions. 

Hybrid Working

Our Hybrid working policy is based on the principles of empowerment, mutual trust and flexibility, recognising that we work best when we make choices about when, where and how we work.  At the same time, we are reminded that time together is so important.  We are a client-service business in which our relationships and our culture provide a significant advantage. Our offices remain critical to how we work; they are a place for collaboration, learning, and support and an anchor for the culture of which we are so proud.

We operate a hybrid working model which would typically see you spending a minimum of 2 days working from the office and the rest remotely. Your work pattern will be reliant on business demands, and we would expect you to manage your time accordingly.

At Odgers, we are committed to fostering a work environment that is safe and respectful of all individuals. We have and will always stand with and support the inclusion and equity of our colleagues, candidates and clients and are committed to improving diversity in all its forms within Odgers.

Unlimited embodies this philosophy and our commitment to inclusion.

We have several initiatives that ensure equity is practised at all levels of our organisation, including our Allies programme, an equitable recruitment process designed to ensure opportunity, our Next Generation council and a meritocratic promotion process.

Sustainability

Modern businesses have a duty to be environmentally responsible and operate sustainably. We believe this represents not only sound commercial sense but also recognises our ethical responsibility to minimise the impact of our activities on the environment and to leave a positive legacy for future generations.

We have committed to, and set, science-based decarbonisation targets, and have received verification of these goals from the Science Based Targets initiative  (SBTi). These targets will hold us accountable to our sustainability strategy while enabling us to measure our progress. This is complemented by us continuing to provide sustainability insight to our clients and cultivating a track record within sustainable businesses and in placing sustainability leaders.

Corporate Social Responsibility

We take Charity seriously – but like to have fun too. Our CSR team are always thinking up new events and activities to get involved in and raise funds for our chosen charity British Heart Foundation. 

We also have a variety of social clubs and learning opportunities to suit everyone such as the Brunch and Learn Session, Odgers choir, the book club or one of the many sports clubs

Whats on offer?

A competitive base salary, supplemented by our benefits package and discretionary bonus

• 25 days Annual leave + 3 gift days for the Christmas closure + bank holidays
• Private Medical Insurance with Bupa and cash plan with Simply Health
• Group Company Pension
• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to work scheme
• Give As You Earn
• Group Income Protection
• Group Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Charity Day
• Wellbeing Programmes, support and speakers
• On-boarding, induction training and ongoing professional development
• Corporate member discounts and benefits available through Bupa and Simply Health including Gyms Discounts 

Applications

We are committed to ensuring everyone can access our website and application processes. This includes people with sight loss, hearing, mobility and cognitive impairments. Should you require access to these documents in alternative formats, need to apply in a different format or need any reasonable adjustments made for any interview please contact our Talent Team at careers@odgers.com 

If you have any comments and/or suggestions about improving access to our application processes, please don't hesitate to contact us at careers@odgers.com

Eligibility

You must be eligible to live and work in the UK