GE Aerospace Finance – 12 Month Placement in Cheltenham

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.

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

• Preparing key reports, analysing data, working on simplification projects, reviewing assets, or supporting the preparation of quarter end accounts.
• 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.
• 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.
• Performing financial analysis to support decision-making by analysing data, preparing reports, and identifying trends.
• Partnering closely with Supply Chain and engaging with the wider finance organisation to understand how finance impacts daily business operations and production.
• Supporting the capital expenditure process (including asset tagging, reviewing capital requests and returns on investment, and periodic asset reviews).
• Performing part cost analysis to support Tollgate reviews.
• 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.

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.

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.

Total Reward

• Flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice.
• Non-contributory Pension.
• Life Assurance.
• Group income protection.
• Private medical cover.
• Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible options to buy or sell.

Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role.

Company Culture

At GE Aerospace, respect for people is core to our culture and commitment to FLIGHT DECK, our proprietary lean operating model. We attract, develop, and retain industry-leading talent from all backgrounds and cultivate communities where people are respected and empowered to reach their fullest potential.