Graduate Analyst - Finance in Wakefield

Department: FSC (Finance, Sustainability & Corporate)

Location: Wakefield (5 days per week at our head office)

Type of contract: 18-month fixed-term contract, with the opportunity to move to a permanent full-time role based on performance

Salary & benefits: £30,000-£35,000 with an annual performance bonus of up to 15%. Workplace pension scheme and private health and dental insurance.

Reporting to: Finance Manager

The energy transition needs people who can make the numbers work. Commercial transport is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition challenge. It’s complex, fragmented, and moving fast, and the infrastructure to support it barely exists yet. That’s exactly why we’re building it at Aegis Energy.

Aegis Energy is developing a network of 50+ clean energy hubs across the UK, giving truck and van fleets genuine, practical access to electric charging, hydrogen, HVO and bio-CNG. We’re not waiting for the transition to happen. We focus on meeting the demands of the commercial vehicle sector.

We’re looking for an exceptional graduate to join our Finance team — someone numerate, curious and organised, ready to build a career in finance and do work that genuinely matters from day one.

About the role:

This is a Graduate Analyst role, at entry level, reporting directly to the Finance Manager. It is a development role for a recent graduate looking to build a career in finance and accounting, giving you a direct line of sight into how a fast-growing company is run.

You will spend time on the overall general finance function rather than sitting in a single niche. On any given week you might be supporting the month-end close, maintaining budget trackers for our hub sites, helping with a grant claim, or improving how our finance systems talk to each other. You’ll start as a Trainee and progress into a Finance Assistant, taking on greater ownership of recurring deliverables over time.

You’ll work closely with the Finance Manager and gain visibility across the business, including engineering, development, operations and commercial teams who deliver our hub sites, giving you an unusual perspective on how priorities are set and how capital is allocated. You’ll be expected to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion and good judgement.

You will join us alongside our incoming graduate cohort and take part in the same structured training programme and development plan. Whilst not a rotational programme, you’ll be embedded in the Finance team and gain exposure to engineering, development, operations, business development and commercial teams.

Some examples of initiatives that you’ll be working on:

• Month-end & reporting: support the month-end close, including preparing and posting journals (accruals, prepayments, payroll, depreciation) in NetSuite, reconciling balance sheet accounts, and helping prepare monthly management reporting and supporting schedules.
• Budgeting & site/project tracking: maintain budget-versus-actual trackers for our planned hub sites and departments, build monthly tracking workbooks from NetSuite exports, monitor open purchase orders and committed spend, and help flag variances against budget.
• Systems & integration: help develop and maintain our finance systems landscape – supporting NetSuite ERP configuration and integrations, connecting and automating data flows between NetSuite and other tools (e.g. payroll, banking and reporting systems), building and testing automated workflows, and improving the reliability of our finance data pipelines.
• Grants & innovation funding: assist with grant claim preparation and reconciling innovation income against claims and GL codes (e.g. Innovate UK–funded projects), and help track milestones, claims and reporting against awarded funding.
• Audit & compliance: help compile audit support schedules, respond to auditor sample requests, and maintain accurate, well-organised, version-controlled working papers.
• Tax support: provide supporting analysis for corporate tax, VAT and other compliance workstreams.
• AI & ways of working: identify and adopt AI tools, automations and improvements that make the Finance team faster, lighter and more accurate.

You’ll thrive here if:

• You’re numerate, detail-oriented, and genuinely interested in a finance and accounting career.
• You have strong Excel skills and a willingness to learn new systems (we use NetSuite as our ERP).
• You’re well-organised and accurate, think clearly, and know how to prioritise across multiple deadlines.
• You’re genuinely excited by the energy transition, not just as a career move, but as something worth getting right.
• You’re curious about how technology, data and AI can unlock better ways of working.
• You come with a strong academic background in accounting, finance, economics, maths, or a related field, though what matters most is how you think, not what you studied.

Please note, this role requires the right to work in the United Kingdom from the start date of the job and for the duration of the 18-month contract. We are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.