FLDP PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

To ensure that your experience is structured and best assists your personal development, there are a number of stages to the FLDP. To help you understand some of the steps you’ll encounter, we’ve outlined the main ones below:

YOUR BUDDY

As soon as you accept an offer of employment at BAE Systems and are allocated your first year role, you’ll then be assigned a ‘buddy’ – someone on the FLDP, and usually based at your first year placement location, who’ll be there to help you settle in and find your way around. You’ll also have the chance to visit the location of your first FLDP placement and meet the team there.

YOUR INDUCTION

Prior to the start of your first placement, you’ll benefit from a week-long residential induction. This includes some IT and finance training, business simulations, team building activities and a chance to meet both existing FLDP graduates and senior finance personnel.

YOUR PLACEMENTS

Then, it’s into a great five-year programme, which will give you three year-long placements followed by a two-year placement within different Business Units. This will ensure you gain a breadth of experience across our many sites, projects and cultures, all of which will contribute to your portfolio of skills and experience.

YOUR TRAINING

In the first three years, your training will be focused on helping you attain your CIMA qualification. During this time, you’ll also attend workshops aimed at developing your interpersonal skills and allowing you to network with other finance professionals.

YOUR MENTOR

You’ll be allocated a corporate mentor, who’ll be there with all sorts of advice and guidance regarding your career.

YOUR WORKSHOPS

Enabling you to share knowledge as you go along is extremely important to us. So, you’ll be attending our annual FLDP Conference and also individual year group workshops – and perhaps you’ll even take responsibility for organising one of these events in a small team!

OTHER ACTIVITIES

You’ll also get the chance to attend university careers fairs and presentations. And once you’re in your fourth year and beyond, you will be trained as an assessor. Here you will have the chance to get involved in recruiting the future talent of the FLDP.

All in all, you’ll find it a programme packed with benefits and opportunities.