The Financial Development Program (FDP) provides aspiring finance and accounting professionals with a range of unique experiences in corporate accounting and finance to help shape them into future business leaders. Over the course of the three-year program, accounting and finance professionals develop their careers through a series of four nine-month rotations designed to challenge them to quickly adapt and add value to each position.
As associates enter the program, each is assigned a peer mentor to help introduce them to Baxter’s corporate culture and the values and goals of the FDP. The cross-functional knowledge and breadth of experience associates gain enable them to pursue numerous career opportunities within Baxter. Through formal training and on-the-job experiences, the FDP is committed to developing associates’ financial, leadership and teamwork skills while exposing them to Baxter’s technologies, product lines and global markets.
Global Opportunities
Corporate Finance
Graduating from the FDP
The ideal candidate for the FDP
Apply Now
Global Opportunities
Baxter conducts business in more than 100 countries worldwide. This global presence is reflected in the FDP, with approximately 25 percent of rotations outside the United States. These rotations provide associates with hands-on international business and global finance experience.
Corporate Finance
FDP associates are typically involved in:
- Financial Reporting and Planning – where they budget, forecast and consolidate information reported to the external community.
- Business Analysis – where they analyze and consolidate financial statements for Baxter business units.
- Manufacturing/Cost Accounting – where they use general and cost accounting skills to process issues related to day-to-day business and manufacturing operations.
- Corporate – where they address a variety of high-level financial tasks and projects that span across business units and regions.
Graduating from the FDP
As associates progress through each rotation, they continue to build and develop their skills, and enhance their overall knowledge of Baxter. Prior to completing the program, associates typically begin planning their transition to a regular, full-time position within the company. As they do so, they have access to a variety of resources to help with the transition, including the FDP program manager, a career development steering committee and past FDP supervisors and alumni.
The ideal candidate for the FDP
- Is an Accounting or Finance undergraduate major with at least 12 credit hours in accounting. NOTE: All Analysts must have at least 15 credit hours in accounting upon graduation from the program;
- Has a record of academic excellence;
- Possesses strong interpersonal skills and can adapt to and work well with diverse sets of situations and people, including cross cultural adaptation;
- Is willing to travel when required. NOTE: Analysts are expected to move to a new business location every nine months;
- Speaks fluent English and ideally other languages; and
- Demonstrates behaviors consistent with Baxter’s short and long-term business needs: initiative/drive, critical/analytical thinking, flexibility, effective decision-making, and relationship building skills.