Placement Student - Plant Finance

Job Description

Our culture believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL . We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work with today’s most innovative thinkers to solve the world’s toughest problems.

We believe in adaptability for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce. That’s what #LifeAtCummins is all about.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Finance Placement Student to join our team specializing in Finance for our Engine Business Segment in UK, Darlington. During your placement with us, you will learn how a major global organization operates, gaining the tools and exposure you will need to become an expert in the industry and power your potential!

This role is available to candidates who qualify for a placement year and will commence 7th July 2025.

External Qualifications and Competencies

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Opportunity to work within different accounting areas depending on business requirements.
• Liaising with other Cummins entities and other functions across the plant to effectively resolve queries.
• Responsible for Customer invoicing, ensuring invoices are accurate, raised timely and compliant with business controls.
• Complete and own month end journals, reconciliations, and processes
• Responsible for ensuring suppliers are paid on time by resolving invoice discrepancies, answering queries, and reconciling statements.
• Opportunity to manage projects within the finance function and implement improvement initiatives.
• Collaborative work with students across the site to complete cross functional community engagement projects.

Additional Responsibilities Unique to this Position

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Working towards a degree in Accounting, Finance, or related subject
• Excellent IT Skills, in particular Excel and Microsoft
• A willingness to challenge the norm and constantly look for improvements.
• Competent in using collaboration tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams.

Working at Cummins

At Cummins, we are dedicated to diversity in the workplace and our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, colour, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, and/or expression or other status protected by law.

CLOSING DATE: Monday 4th November 2024, 11:59pm

About Us

At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, colour, disability, national origin, age, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Visit EEOC.gov to know your rights on workplace discrimination.