Our Story 

Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of thirteen clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what “City” football has meant to people for over a century.

Our Winning Team

Our purpose is to empower better lives through football. We are proud of the role City Football Group clubs play in their localities, delivering positive economic, social and environmental impact through our operations and through programmes and activities that bring about meaningful, lasting change.

The City Football Finance Graduate Programme is designed to build core capability and skills to platform you for a successful finance career within our organisation.  Each placement is designed to develop key skills, knowledge and behaviours that will support the business and your long-term career.

You will work across selected Finance teams to learn our core financial systems and apply that knowledge to support the business during key processes throughout the year.  For example, financial planning and analysis for future acquisitions and business ventures, annual budgeting cycle and forecasting. The programme provides experience of working in a leading global sporting organisation and the opportunity to see and feel what the industry has to offer. You will have access to all functions within the finance department including management and technical accounting, Treasury, Tax, Financial processing, Business Partnering and International Finance. Whilst being supported through in-role development and on-rotation mentoring, the role is perfectly placed to experience and contribute to a high-performance culture.

Over a two-year period, you will undertake an initial induction and onboarding period followed by 2 rotations into different departments within CFG’s Finance functions: each rotation lasting approximately 11 months.  The Graduate programme is intended to be a route into a permanent role within the Group, having honed your skills and experience to launch a successful career in finance at CFG.

This is Your City

CFG have some unique benefits such as free breakfast and lunches as well as free access to the gym, running clubs, padel court, onsite yoga and bootcamp.  All of which are situated on campus with modern and collaborative working spaces and free car parking. The core benefits package includes 26 days holiday plus your birthday, private medical insurance, employer pension contribution, private health insurance, dental plan, cycle to work scheme, give as you earn and life assurance. There are also lifestyle and partnership discounts on offer.

Your Impact

- Finance Project Planning & Management: You will learn how to support and ensure the smooth delivery of finance projects in a large and complex business. This will involve working closely with the Financial Planning and Analysis team involving financial modelling and preparing analysis for key financial and non-financial stakeholders. Support and ensure the smooth delivery of projects outcomes, identifying key milestones, monitoring and managing workflow, task/activity completion and manage and organise own day to day activities.

- Data & Insights: Organise, input, and manage internal and external data / documentation to produce relevant reports and insights relating to football finance.  Identify trends and themes to support decision making on projects and business cases.

- Presenting & Communication: Create well formatted, effective business presentations for use by teams / other group stakeholders, based on manager guidance regarding structure and key messages in readiness for distribution to the wider business.

Key Competencies:

• Minimum grade 2:1 at degree level.


• Ability to adapt to new situations and working environments


• Self-motivated and willing learner, with strong motivation for self-development


• Seeks and uses feedback / training opportunities to improve performance


• Results & quality focussed and able to meet internal deadlines for providing work outputs


• Well organised with the ability to prioritise & manage multiple deadlines


• Strong analytical, process and problem-solving skills


• Good attention to detail to produce robust reports and analysis


• Use of data and analytics to inform decision making


• Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Email)


• Able to produce clear, concise, and well formatted information with structure & key messages

Foundational knowledge in:

• Business & Strategy concepts


• Sporting Industry


• Finance and Accounting