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Start Your Career with Kinisla
Join the Kinisla Graduate Programme in a permanent, full-time role designed for ambitious graduates who aspire to become future senior leaders in our business. This is more than an entry-level graduate job: it is a structured two-year leadership development programme commencing September 2027. Your role will commence in Ossett and, as part of the Graduate programme, you will have the opportunity to gain experience across different areas of the Kinisla organisation. It combines formal learning, hands-on operational experience, meaningful projects, mentoring across the business. From day one, you will be challenged to build the commercial, operational and leadership capabilities needed to grow your career with Kinisla.
Assessment centres will take place during the week commencing 18 January 2027. As part of the selection process, you must be available to attend in person during that week.
Working in Finance at Kinisla:
Finance plays a critical role in shaping the future of Kinisla. As a vertically integrated dairy, nutritional ingredients and consumer foods business, our finance teams work across every part of the value chain from milk procurement and manufacturing to commercial strategy, performance management and sustainability investment.
On our two-year programme, you will have the opportunity to build experience across the Kinisla business, gaining exposure to different areas and developing a broader understanding of how we operate. Your responsibilities may include:
- Supporting financial planning and analysis, budgeting and forecasting activities across the business.
- Collaborating with commercial, supply chain and operations teams to provide insights that drive performance and profitability.
- Assisting with month-end close processes, variance analysis and reporting to senior stakeholders.
- Contributing to strategic projects such as cost optimisation, investment appraisal and sustainability-linked initiatives.
- Gaining exposure to systems such as SAP and Power BI to support data-driven decision-making
- Participating in internal audits, compliance reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.
Developing Kinisla’s Future Leaders:
Our Graduate Programme is designed to accelerate your development and prepare you for increasing responsibility and future leadership opportunities at Kinisla. You will benefit from:
- A permanent role with structured development over two years.
- Off-the-job learning modules, mentoring and group projects.
- Hands-on responsibility and meaningful project work from day one.
- Opportunities to build a broad network across Kinisla.
By the end of the programme, you will have built strong finance expertise, a broad understanding of the business and the leadership foundations to progress towards more senior roles at Kinisla.
Do You Have What It Takes?
- You are on track to achieve, or have recently completed, a degree with at least a 2:1 classification in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related discipline.
- You can demonstrate an interest in building a career in finance within an FMCG and/or food manufacturing environment.
- You are curious, open to learning and actively seek feedback.
- You are a self-starter who takes ownership, prioritises effectively and adapts to changing priorities.
- You can influence, listen and build trust with internal and external stakeholders.
- You are ambitious, challenge the status quo and look for scalable ways to improve the business.
- You are flexible to work across different sites and functions.
- You are eligible to work permanently in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
Discover Your Future with Kinisla:
Kinisla is a vertically integrated dairy, nutritional ingredients and consumer foods business, built on more than 50 years of expertise in milk processing, dairy and nutritional ingredient technology, and product innovation.
Working in close partnership with 2,600 family farms, we produce high-quality, low-carbon-intensity milk for dairy and nutritional ingredient solutions, alongside a strong portfolio of trusted, market-leading consumer products and brands.
With manufacturing operations across Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK, and a global customer reach, Kinisla is a trusted and forward-looking supplier of high-quality dairy products, ingredients and nutritional solutions. Our four business areas are Agribusiness, Dairy Ingredients, Nutritional Ingredients, and Consumer Foods.
Our purpose is to reimagine dairy for better food and a future worth farming for. Through expertise, innovation and responsible growth, we are helping to shape a more regenerative and climate-conscious future for our dairy.
Rooted in the South-West of Ireland, Kinisla combines deep heritage, global expertise and innovation to create exciting products, partnerships and careers. Our values are Together, Braver, and Further.
