Growing responsibility

• You will take on more ownership and a wider business partnering role as you progress. Progression in pay and responsibility are part of the programme and linked to your progress with the qualification and your performance on the job over the years.

Key responsibilities

Our finance partner on site

• Be Finance’s visible, approachable partner for Operations and Product, building trusted relationships across the teams.
• Spend time on the shop floor, in the warehouse, and with product teams to understand what is happening and how it affects costs.
• Connect teams with finance colleagues, bringing back the context behind the numbers and answering or directing finance questions.
• Gather key information for budgets, forecasts, and projects, and explain costs clearly to non-finance colleagues.

Supporting the monthly finance cycle

• Support the Operations Accountant with month-end, making sure the costs of building our bikes are recorded accurately and in the right period. You will take on more as your experience grows.
• Help record and understand the parts, consumables, and labour that make up the cost of each bike.
• Review product parts lists, production activity, and cost implications with the right teams.
• Investigate scrap, freight, duties, warranty claims, and other cost movements to understand their causes and impact.
• Support stock checks and keep records of machinery, equipment, and tooling accurate.
• Learn how investment in new products, including engineering time and tooling, is recorded over the product’s life.

Detective work: checks and investigations

• Complete monthly checks, compare records with independent sources, and investigate any differences.
• Trace unusual cost movements to their root cause and clearly record what you checked, found, and resolved.
• Help provide the evidence and explanations needed for external audits.

Improving how we work: process, systems, and data

• Keep finance process guides clear, current, and easy to follow.
• Spot slow, manual, or error-prone processes and work with teams to improve them.
• Use SQL, Power Query, Power Automate, ERPs, and AI to improve data and automate repetitive work.
• Help teams capture accurate information and work with Data & Analytics and Purchase Ledger to improve how it flows into reports.

The ideal candidate

Essential qualifications and experience

• A bachelor’s degree in any subject, recently completed or about to be completed.
• No prior accounting or business studies required: we will teach you.
• An interest in how businesses work and achieve their objectives, and in how teams and organisations interact.
• Comfort with numbers and with Excel.
• The right to work in the UK, and eligibility to start a Level 4 apprenticeship in England (we will help you check this).
• Willingness to be based on site in Greenford, West London, 4 days per week.
• Some experience in data tools such as SQL, Power Query, or Power Automate, or any coding, is helpful but not essential, but you need interest and comfort navigating and interrogating data.

Essential skills and attributes

• Analytical mindset: You break problems down and follow the evidence.
• Rigour and method: You are organised, careful, and know when good is good enough.
• Curiosity and investigation: You keep asking why until you find the real answer.
• Business acumen: You are interested in how businesses operate, make money, and achieve their goals.
• People skills: You build trust, listen well, explain clearly, and raise difficult points constructively.
• Creative use of technology: You use new technology creatively to solve problems.
• Strong foundations: You value reliable processes, systems, and data, and want to improve them.
• Resourcefulness: You find smarter, sustainable ways to do more with less.
• Fast learner: You learn quickly and are motivated to study alongside a full-time role.
• Initiative and ownership: You spot what needs doing and follow it through.
• Integrity and discretion: You handle sensitive financial information carefully.
• Adaptability: You enjoy variety and thrive in a changing environment.

What success looks like

Success in this role means:

• Operations and Product colleagues know and trust you as Finance’s helpful onsite partner.
• The context you provide helps the Operations Accountant and Operations Finance Analyst work faster and better.
• You take on more monthly tasks accurately and on time, explaining what is happening and why.
• You trace every difference to its root cause and document it clearly.
• The process library is current and used, with meaningful improvements delivered in your first six months.
• You identify ways to simplify or automate repetitive tasks and put some into practice using our data tools.
• You pass the CIMA Certificate in your first year and progress steadily towards the full qualification.
• Colleagues bring you questions early, before decisions are made.
• Your responsibility and impact grow each year.

Please Note: As Brompton is making a significant investment in your development, we expect you to stay with us for at least one year after completing the programme. If you choose to leave sooner, you may be asked to repay part of the funded costs, in line with the terms agreed at the start of the programme.