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Financial Management Trainee

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Job ID 239963 Date posted 03/15/2023 Location : Mechelen, Belgium

Launch your career engaging in meaningful work!

Working at Cargill is an opportunity to thrive – a place to develop your career to the fullest while engaging in meaningful work that makes a positive impact around the globe. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. Every day, we connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with food. We combine our experience with new technologies and insights to serve as a trusted partner for food, agriculture, financial and industrial customers in more than 125 countries. We offer a diverse, inclusive and inspiring working environment where you will grow personally and professionally.

What is the Financial Management Trainee Program about?

We aim to develop top diverse talent towards future expert and managerial roles for our financial function at Cargill. The program offers access to accelerate development on the job and through other channels during a 24-month program which may include depending on your area of expertise:

  • Developing knowledge around the relevant processes to be able to support the country businesses. 
  • Participating and being involved in general finance activities in other countries.
  • Assisting the financial team with the Profit and Loss (P&L) preparation. 
  • Collaborating with the commercial and trading teams and developing into a business partner. 
  • Providing expertise in our SAP processes to meet the finance procedures. 
  • Learning on the job from experts, developing technical and soft skills and receiving coaching from your manager and peers.
  • Participating in structured learning (digital and instructor led) to develop your technical, professional and leadership skills with peers across Europe, Middle East and Africa, learning from each other during the different sessions of the Cargill European Graduate program.
  • Building a peer network across Cargill.

What you will bring to Cargill (REQUIRED)

  • Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Business. 
  • Entry level work experience (up to 2 years) and/or an internship in relevant areas.
  • Willingness and flexibility to travel in case required.  
  • Fluency in English. Dutch and/or French would be considered an advantage. 

What you will bring to Cargill (REQUIRED)

  • Proven natural leadership and excellent communication and analytical skills. 
  • Teamwork; ability to work in a multi-cultural and multi-functional teams.
  • High integrity and ethical standards.
  • Self-starter; highly motivated and able to work independently. Willingness to take responsibility and initiative. Demonstrated experience in prioritizing work and meeting deadlines. 
  • Fast learner and oriented to self-development: curiosity to learn and create new way of building and/or improving systems and processes. 
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to proactively identify and resolve problems. 
  • Flexibility; able to cope with fast changes within a growing company. 

Our Offer

We will provide a fast-paced stimulating international environment, which will challenge and stretch you. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest private companies in the world!
At Cargill, everyone matters and everyone counts. Cargill is committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. As such and in alignment with our Guiding Principles, Cargill's long-standing equal employment opportunity policy prohibits discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status, family status, citizenship status, veteran status, military status, union affiliation, or any other status protected by law. Cargill is also aligned with all applicable national and local laws and regulations pertaining to non-discrimination and employment.

Next Steps: 

Our usual recruitment process runs as follows: candidates meeting the criteria will be invited to complete a recorded video interview via the platform Modern Hire. If successful, you will be invited to have a conversation with the hiring manager.

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