Graduate Scheme: Start Your Career In Education Finance

Graduate scheme: start your career in education finance

We're hiring four graduates into one programme: two in Application Support and two in Technical Projects. You don't need to choose a path yet. Show us how you think, and we'll match you to the role that suits you best. Fully remote, £28,500 a year, starting January 2027.

About IMP

IMP Software builds the only finance platform made from the ground up for multi-academy trusts, independent schools and colleges. Our team includes former education finance professionals, so we know our customers' work because we've done it. Most large trusts now run their budgeting, forecasting and reporting on the IMP platform.

We're an AI-first company of around 125 people, fully remote, with an office in Exeter. AI is part of how every team here works, and you'll use it from day one. We look out for each other, fund your learning, and give you real responsibility early.

Two pathways, one programme

Everyone applies to the same programme and goes through the same assessment day. We confirm which team you join when we make an offer, based on your strengths and what you enjoy most.

Both pathways are a great starting point for a career at IMP. You'll get to know the IMP platform inside out, and how our customers use it. That knowledge is the foundation for growing into other roles across the business.

Application Support Consultant

You'll be the first person our customers talk to when they need help. Over live chat, you'll answer questions from school business managers and finance teams, solve problems, and help them get the most from the IMP platform. You'll use AI alongside your own growing knowledge to resolve queries quickly. You'll learn our products inside out, which sets you up for a career in customer success, product or consultancy.

Junior Technical Consultant

You'll join our Technical Projects team, helping trusts move their data onto the IMP platform. That means migrating, standardising and cleaning staff contract and budget information as new schools join a trust, or as a trust moves to a new chart of accounts. You'll work with data every day, using a range of tools, including AI, to get it right quickly. With support, you'll grow into being the main point of contact for customers through their project.

Who we're looking for

You'll have completed a degree in any subject and be ready to start in February 2027. Finance, accounting, economics, maths and business are a natural fit, but we care more about how you think than what you studied. AAT, part-qualified and qualified-by-experience candidates are welcome too.

• You stay curious. You keep learning, bring new ideas, and like working out why something doesn't add up.

• You think like the customer, and you genuinely care about getting the work right for the people on the other end.

• You're comfortable with numbers and confident analysing data, whatever tools you use. For the Technical Projects pathway, this is at the heart of the role.

• You're excited by AI and already use it, or want to use it, to work smarter.

• You get stuff done, and you do what you say you'll do. If something's going to slip, you say so early.

• You own it. No "not my job", no blame, no ego. You're honest, you welcome challenge and you share the credit.

• You communicate clearly and you're brilliant to work with. You ask "How can I help?" without waiting to be asked.

• Experience in a school, a finance office or a customer-facing job is a bonus, not a requirement.

We hire against our Legend definition: We care. We deliver. We don't do BS. It's about how you work, not how many hours you put in.

What you'll get

• £28,500 a year

• 27 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 more

• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

• AXA health insurance, including dental, optical and mental health

• Life assurance at 4 times your salary

• Broadband allowance and a home office stipend

• Funded training and CPD, with real career progression

• Institute of Leadership qualification

• Fully remote and flexible working, with regular socials

How to apply

Apply with your CV and a short video answer of up to 200 words: What excites you most about this programme, and what would you want to have achieved by the end of your first six months?

Screening call (20 minutes). A conversation with our Talent Acquisition Manager about you, your motivation and your strengths.

Graduate assessment day, virtual. A group workshop on a real education finance problem, a short data exercise and a presentation. Shortlisted candidates then meet a member of our exec team in the afternoon.

Offer. We aim to make offers within two days of the assessment day, and we'll confirm your pathway then.

We'll send you everything you need to prepare before the day. If you need any adjustments at any stage, tell us and we'll make it work.