Finance Intern Pathway 2025

Are you looking to develop your career in Finance? Do you want to work in a global business where you can develop yourself and your career? Are you looking for a 1 year industrial placement internship from summer 2025 in London?

If so, we’re looking for Finance interns like you! Apply below to share your details and CV with us. If we’re a match, we’ll be in touch to discuss more.

What will you be doing?

You could be working for any one of businesses in London:

• In our UK domestic market business (‘Pernod Ricard UK’), you’ll be part of a Finance team of 10, whose Financial Controllers look after our balance sheet, cash position, cost controlling and statutory reporting.
• In our global scotch business (‘Chivas Brothers’), you might be involved with global pricing strategy to optimise the profitability of our whisky portfolio.
• In our Global Travel Retail business (‘Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail’), you could support our Commercial teams on customer negotiations, build P&Ls or develop models and templates to ensure robust financial planning.

By applying to this stream, you could be considered for any of the above positions. You will be able to share a preference during the interview process.

Who are you? We’re looking for people who are:

• Completing a degree in any discipline from any UK university and with the ability to complete a year in industry from the summer of 2025.
  • We also welcome applications from recent graduates who are open to undertaking a year-long placement.
• Highly interested in pursuing a career in Finance, including analysis, budgeting and forecasting
• Curious, analytical and are excited by solving problems and improving how things are done
• Able to show high mental agility (intellectual curiosity, embracing complexity, managing multiple priorities) and high people agility (building relationships, working well with others, emotional intelligence)
• Able to demonstrate a track record of excellence or of achieving result. 

What do we offer?

• Fantastic opportunities to grow your career, in the UK and internationally – 50% of our UK positions are hired from within.
• A genuinely unique culture – we call it conviviality!
• Great benefits including private healthcare, 28 days’ holiday, free Wellbeing resources and a generous allowance in our staff shop!
• A socially-driven business, serious about Sustainability & Responsibility, Diversity & Inclusion and responsible drinking.
• A global organisation with world-leading brands – we are the world #1 in premium spirits with over 240 premium brands available in over 160 countries.

Why join us? Check out these links to see some of the great work we’re doing, in Finance and beyond

• Our recognition as a leading employer by Forbesand one of theWorld’s Best Companies by Time magazine.
• Our strong FY24 results.
• Our global brands and their leading campaigns such as Absolut, (here and here), Ballantines’ support of True Music in our partnership with Boiler Room, Jameson x EFL (here and here) and Malibu’sDon’t Drink and Dive campaignwith Tom Daley!
• Our Sustainability and Responsibility commitments.

Application process

• Stage 1: Online application and CV submission
• Stage 2: Blended assessment - includes a video interview
• Stage 3: Assessment centre

We operate a hybrid working policy and our experience has found that our interns get the most out of their time with us if they are spending minimum 3, ideally 4 days per week in the office. We therefore ask that all our interns agree to spend 3-4 days per week in the office.

At Pernod Ricard, we are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process—please let us know if you require any adjustments to support you through your application.