Graduate development program

Take up the challenge – and join us as a controller

You’ve nearly completed your degree and have already set yourself career goals that you would now like to achieve. You are looking for a company that will value your flexibility and critical appraisal skills, give you the opportunity to learn a broad spectrum of tasks in a very short time and provide you with the chance to work abroad.

If this describes you, then we would be interested in meeting you.

Requirements

• University degree or PhD in an economics-based subject
• Areas of specialism: controlling, finance, accounting, corporate planning, auditing, trusts or taxation

Profile

• Very good academic grades, foreign degree or period of study abroad desirable
• Practical experience, e.g. through international internships and work experience (vocational training before degree an advantage)
• Fluent written and spoken English, preferably knowledge of other foreign languages
• High degree of flexibility and mobility for possible long-term international assignments within the Bayer Group

 

Start, content and duration of the trainee program

• Trainees can start at any time
• Individual assignment schedules are arranged with the controlling teams of the subgroups and service companies and with Group Controlling, Group Accounting and Reporting, Finance and Corporate Auditing
• Assignment to a foreign affiliate during the trainee program
• Integration into broadly based assignments (e.g. projects) or responsibility for specific activities
   
  

Employment opportunities on completion of program

• Group Controlling
• Controlling in a subgroup or service company
• Group Accounting and Reporting
• Finance

 There is the possibility of subsequent employment at affiliated companies in Germany or abroad

Applications
We require the following documents (please in five PDF-files maximum):

• Covering letter
• Curriculum Vitae
  
• University certificates
• School-leaving diploma
• Appropriate references in respect of previous employment 
  and internships etc. during university studies