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We’d like to remind you that you must ensure you are eligible for this scheme before applying. Please read through the eligibility criteria below carefully and ensure that you are eligible before applying.
Please note: We only allow one application for any of our Graduate schemes per year. Any subsequent applications will be withdrawn.
TfL plays a key role in shaping what life is like in London. Our transport infrastructure and public transport network is admired around the world. We are literally changing London for the future – making it one of the best cities to live, work and visit. Around 3.6 billion journeys were made across our transport network in 2025/26 and we do all that we can to keep our city moving, growing and working. To meet the needs of our customers, now and for the future, we’re providing the modern and affordable transport network London needs. To support this, our multi billion-pound programme to make our services more reliable, frequent and accessible includes modernising the Piccadilly Line, improving Step Free Access at stations, and investing in congestion and air quality initiatives on our roads through our healthy streets approach.
As a Finance graduate, you will have a pivotal part to play in the delivery of many projects, working to generate an operating surplus to reinvest in our services. You will work with stakeholders to make commercial business decisions together; challenging, driving and guiding them to reduce costs and increase income.
As a graduate, this three-year programme will develop your holistic understanding of all the different aspects that make up Finance as a business function. You will complete several placements in different parts of Finance, whilst studying for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) professional qualification through the Level 7 Accountancy or Taxation Professional apprenticeship.
Our aim is to equip you with the range of skills and breadth of experience you need for your successful career. Your journey through the scheme will allow you to build up knowledge in transactional accounting, apply that knowledge and gain partnering experience across all of TfL’s major business units in a finance business partnering role, before transitioning into a strategic finance placement and contributing towards TfL’s significant strategy publications, assisting with our treasury management or seeking innovative funding solutions for some of our most interesting projects.
We also understand that everyone’s career and ambitions are different, so every graduate’s journey with us is unique. We have designed a rotational placement structure, with core and elective placements to allow you to shape your career to your own ambitions. Here is an example of what your development journey could look like:
London/Hybrid - Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a four-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
After completing the scheme, you will roll-off into a permanent role that best suits the skills you have developed over the three-year programme, balanced with the needs of the business. Potential roles include finance business partner, financial reporting accountant, and corporate finance analyst. TfL has an excellent track record in continuing to support our graduate alumni with very high retention and promotion rates, and many of our graduates have gone on to hold senior management roles within the organisation. There are many opportunities to move between finance teams to get a breadth of experience in operational, project and commercial functions.
Our award-winning teams will support your ongoing development, through a wide range of on-the-job practical experience and placements.
We’ll support your technical development through practical training with our industry leading experts. There will also be the opportunity for training in topics such as presentations skills and project management. We'll support your professional development through a combination of mentoring opportunities, structured networking opportunities with other graduates and alumni as well as the external transport modelling and analysis community.
You'll also receive one-to-one guidance throughout the programme from your:
A minimum of 2:2 degree in any STEM subject
Successful candidates must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the scheme, as at the start date. This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa scheme. If you do not have the right to work in the UK or only have a right to work here for a limited time which is lesser than the duration of the scheme, you should be aware that TfL will be unable to sponsor you for this role.
Our core values are extremely important to us, and we desire candidates who are:
You will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:
Successful candidates must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the scheme, as at the start date. This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa scheme. If you do not have the right to work in the UK, or only have a right to work here for a limited time which is lesser than the duration of the scheme, you should be aware that TfL will be unable to sponsor you for this role.
£32,250, rising to £33,500 in the second year.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve. We believe that a diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum essential criteria for skills, knowledge and experience has been met. In some circumstances, it may not be practical to offer an interview or assessment to every candidate who applies through the scheme and meet the minimum essential criteria; in these situations, we select candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job rather than interviewing all who meet them.
Across all recruitment activity, we recognise that selection methods may vary depending on the nature and scale of the campaign and will be applied fairly, consistently and proportionately in line with our Disability Confident commitments.
In High Volume campaigns including Graduate, Apprentice and Intern recruitment the minimum criteria we set is achieving a pass mark in our first stage assessments, adopting a proportionate approach to the Disability Confident Offer an Interview scheme.
Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments for any stages of the application process.
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