Finance Graduate (Stanley Black & Decker Leadership Program)

Maidenhead, UK (Hybrid)

1st July 2026 Start

Come build your career.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 43,500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

Why SLP?

The Stanley Black & Decker Leadership Development Program (“SLP”) is a fast-track rotational program that is an integrated process for accelerating the development of our future leaders. It is geared toward recent graduates with Finance & Accounting internship experience and a relevant business degree who have a passion for a long term career in Corporate Finance & Accounting.

Finance SLPs will work in approximately 4 X 6-month rotations in different Finance functions across SBD businesses in Europe. Each rotation has project assignments that allow participants to become familiar with how we do business and contribute to the success of that facility. The program offers invaluable experiences for early career associates seeking challenging developmental opportunities to jump-start their careers. This high profile opportunity will provide a great deal of company-wide exposure and professional growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, manage and provide deliverables on projects as assigned.
• Work closely with functional business groups to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of solutions deployed in support of business goals and objectives.
• Lead projects and ensure that the functionality is developed in a way that complies with business requirements and established methodologies and practices.
• Monitor and report to management on the status of project efforts, anticipating/identifying issues that inhibit the attainment of project goals and implementing corrective actions.
• Facilitate structured training programs to support business transformation.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change.
• Leading key Finance and Accounting projects to streamline processes and increase working capital turns.
• Gather and report necessary Key Performance Indicator (KPI) metrics globally.
• Report out/present to the Executive Team your project deliverables on a quarterly basis.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance or Accounting or other related business field.
• Must have demonstrated leadership experience.
• Must have a passion for excellence and leadership.
• Executes with the highest degree of integrity and accountability.
• Must be able to communicate well across all levels of the organisation.
• Must be interested to rotate, and possible relocate across Europe every 6 months
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the business beginning with the shop floor and ending with senior management.
• Self motivated individual who strives for excellence and continuous improvement through the use of analytical problem solving skills.
• Facilitating, interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to interact effectively with executives.
• Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills.
• Experience using various computer applications including Microsoft Excel, Access and other applications included in the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Basic knowledge of accounting and finance.
• Must have a “can-do” attitude – the desire to go above and beyond in all you do!

How You’ll Feel

We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:

Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our Lean Academy, Coursera® and online university.

Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks

You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development:

Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:

We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:

You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.