GE Aerospace
GE Aerospace Finance – 12 Month Placement
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Over your 12-month Placement you'll work in a Finance business environment gaining invaluable skills and experience. The opportunities available will cover all areas of finance from financial planning and analysis to order execution.
About GE Aerospace
Are you ready to see your future take flight? At GE Aerospace, we are advancing aviation technologies for today and tomorrow. Your work will contribute to the production of advanced jet engines, components, and integrated systems that power commercial and military aircraft. You’ll be part of a team that embraces your drive, your curiosity, and your unique ideas and perspectives. Most importantly, you’ll share in our pride and purpose that affects the lives of millions around the world!
Finance
Whether you want to work at one of our facilities as the site leader's right hand helping to make business decisions or at headquarters on a larger finance team, we have an opportunity for you. You’ll get to work with budgets of various sizes and complexities, while collaborating with others. Our finance and accounting teams span the globe, providing unmatched learning, development, and career growth opportunities.
Roles And Responsibilities
Over your 12-month Placement you'll work in a Finance business environment gaining invaluable skills and experience. The opportunities available will cover all areas of finance from financial planning and analysis to order execution. You could be preparing key reports, analysing data, working on simplification projects, reviewing assets, or supporting the preparation of quarter end accounts.
We Have Several Opportunities
Finance (Caledonian)
- Offers exposure across all areas of finance, from financial planning and analysis to order execution.
- You will support key activities such as preparing reports, analysing data, working on simplification projects, reviewing assets, and helping prepare quarter-end accounts.
- Day-to-day responsibilities include overhead cost management (approvals, spend analysis, accruals, variance reporting), overtime data submission, account analysis and reclasses, cost allocation, ad hoc finance tasks and projects, month-end close activities, and standard daily work.
On Wing Support Finance (Wales)
- Managing indirect costs for the London, Doha, and Dubai sites, including approving and overseeing indirect budgets and invoice requests, and ensuring budgets finish on plan each month, quarter, and year.
- Involved in cost-out initiatives and perform financial analysis to support decision-making by analysing data, preparing reports, and identifying trends.
- Daily activities include posting TL journal entries and reclassing costs, recharging invoices for materials and transport, processing IPS invoices, manipulating and compiling WIP reports for billing and trailing charges, posting direct labour approvals, and consolidating trial balance, stock, sales and margin.
Supply Chain Finance (Cheltenham)
- Partner closely with Supply Chain and engage with the wider finance organisation to understand how finance impacts daily business operations and production.
- Set up projects and resources in the ERP system, support the capital expenditure process (including asset tagging, reviewing capital requests and returns on investment, and periodic asset reviews), and perform part cost analysis to support Tollgate reviews.
- Responsibilities will also include month-end close analysis and reporting, finance audit test counts for stock take and cycle counting, running reports for Supply Chain hours and inventory transactions, and contributing to problem solving and continuous improvement projects related to capex and Supply Chain financial metrics.
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Finance - FP&A Team (Wales)
- Support a broad range of finance and business activities, gaining meaningful hands-on experience while adding value to the team.
- Responsibilities would include supporting daily productivity reporting, providing finance support to operations teams, assisting with expenses, cost analysis, and cost management, contributing to continuous business improvement projects, completing the intern curriculum, and performing monthly reporting and analysis.
- This role offers strong exposure to day-to-day finance responsibilities and wider business operations, helping the student build technical capability, business understanding, and cross-functional experience.
You will be guided by structured goals and objectives and will have responsibility to deliver on inspiring projects supported by your People Leader and team around you. We will guide you throughout the year to ensure you make the best of your GE Aerospace experience. Your People Leader will offer coaching and mentoring, and you will be provided with the opportunity to connect with other placement students across the UK.
This opportunity is offered in our Cardiff, Caledonian (Prestwick, Scotland), and Cheltenham sites, during the process we will ask you to share your location preferences.
GE Aerospace Wales
GE Aerospace Wales specialises in the maintenance, repair and overhaul of a range of commercial jet engines. The facility, based in Nantgarw, just north of Cardiff, occupies over 1.2 million square feet of workshop space and has two state-of-the-art aircraft engine test facilities, along with a significant repair capability – known as Component Repair Wales.
The site has the capability to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services for a range of engine types – including the world’s most powerful commercial aircraft engine the GE90-115B and the world’s most popular commercial engine the CFM56.
As one of the largest commercial aircraft engine maintenance facilities in the world, with annual sales of over $2bn, the business works with over 90 customers worldwide, including Emirates, TUI, Lufthansa, Delta, United, ANA and British Airways.
In 2017, the Wales site was selected as the Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul facility of choice for the GE9X; which will become the world’s largest and most fuel-efficient jet engine when it launches into service. The business will benefit from a £5m investment from the Welsh Government to support the total £20m investment put forward by the business, to equip and upskill the facility to be ready to maintain the GE9X fleet when it enters service on the new Boeing 777X aircraft.
The Wales team places a strong focus on providing career opportunities for talented individuals. Our apprenticeship, internship and work experience opportunities have been built to ensure the long-term success of our business by developing the next generation of technical, engineering and problem-solving talent.
GE Aerospace Caledonian
GE Aerospace Caledonian is a purpose-built aircraft engine overhaul facility, adjacent to Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. The Caledonian site was officially opened in 1980 and has since grown into a centre of excellence for Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) of CF6 & GEnx engine types. After each overhaul, the engines undergo intensive performance testing on site in our bespoke test cell, before returning to our global customer base ready for service.
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Our vastly experienced and innovative workforce are passionate in the contribution towards the training of future engineers, leaders and surrounding talent in our organisation. At GE Caledonian, our Apprentices (Foundation, Modern & Graduate), XLP, OMLP and interns are key members of our team helping achieve the challenges of tomorrow. They continuously develop new skills to keep up with the pace of change in the Aviation Industry and become comfortable working in this ever-challenging environment which thrives on embracing change.
Our diverse team have a strong foothold in the local community, proactively seeking new volunteering opportunities to give back and deliver on our corporate responsibility. We have a dedicated affinity group on site who facilitate opportunities to the wider team, creating an inclusive culture we can all be proud of.
GE Aerospace Cheltenham
With over 1,700 employees, GE Aerospace based in Cheltenham is one of the largest sites outside the USA and a major contributor to the local economy.
Our heritage dates back to 1940 yet our technology is cutting-edge. Located in the heart of Gloucestershire, the Power Distribution & Controls (PD&C) site focuses on the design, development and manufacture of state-of-the-art aircraft power distribution and avionics systems for the global aviation industry. Our customers include all major aerospace manufacturers - covering commercial, business jet and military applications. The scale and complexity of engineering projects offer our employees unique opportunities to work on major international projects, developing critical aircraft systems that will be relied on by many people for decades to come.
At GE Aerospace we strive to be an employer of choice by offering internships, apprenticeships, mentoring and staff development programmes that create a workplace where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential.
Innovation, a commitment to engineering excellence and leadership development places GE Aerospace based in Cheltenham as a pioneering force in building the future of flight.
If you are passionate about Finance, we would like to hear from you.
This placement role is an intended pipeline to our Financial Management Programme (FMP) based across Europe and beyond. Towards the end of the placement year, we will open graduate applications for our current placement students with an aim to secure a role prior to the end of their placement year.
Meaning, you can head back into your final year at university with a graduate job offer in hand. All you need to do is secure a 2,1 degree or above!
If you are eager to be exposed to and learn diverse facets of finance such as commercial finance, supply chain finance, finance IT, financial planning and analysis, learn more about FMP. You can find out more here https://invent.ge/fmp.
Qualifications/Requirements
- Currently studying a Finance/ Accounting/ Economics related Bachelor’s or integrated Master’s degree
- On course to achieve 2:1 degree or above
- To be in your penultimate year of study and returning to education post placement
Desired Characteristics
- Able to roll up your sleeves and get involved in projects
- Organised & able to work towards deadlines
- Inspired and curious to learn
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Able to take ownership for projects
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Able to work as part of a team
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