Job description
Closing Date:
17/04/2023
This vacancy may close at any time, if this role is of interest to you we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
The Opportunity
Do you want to work on real-time projects alongside leading scientists and engineers within a globally renowned company?
Leonardo is an international leader in electronic and information technologies for defence systems, aerospace, data, infrastructures, land security and protection, and sustainable ’smart’ solutions. We are a continually expanding company, offering exciting opportunities to talented individuals who want to work at the forefront of technology. With Leonardo, you can look forward to a career working alongside highly skilled professionals who are passionate about their work.
Leonardo’s Industrial Placement Programme offers you a paid placement to develop your knowledge and skills in our innovative and practical environment. In addition to working with our highly skilled engineers and business professionals, successful completion of an Industrial Placement can often lead to an offer for a permanent graduate position and securing your place on our industry leading Graduate Development Programme.
The 6 month – 1 year Industrial Placement Programme
Our Industrial Placement Programme is designed to offer you the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills you require to become an engineering or business professional of the future. On our programme you will engage with challenging and exciting project work, and deliver innovative business or technical solutions as part of a team of subject matter experts. Throughout the programme you will receive coaching and support from your team to achieve your objectives as well as your personal development goals. You will gain a wide array of experience on your placement that you can apply to your academic studies and future career.
At Leonardo we value individuals who continuously demonstrate a dedication to their personal development, and successful completion of an Industrial Placement with Leonardo can lead to an offer on our Graduate Development Programme. We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are willing to take on a challenge to fill our industrial placement roles, and we will demand a high degree of customer focus and work performance from you in order to meet our operational challenges. If you are willing able to commit to giving your best performance, you will find Leonardo a very rewarding place to work!
What you will do
At Leonardo, we have a fantastic new opportunity for a Finance Industrial Placement. Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 7,000 are based in the UK.
The Finance Industrial Placement will join the Central Finance Team with Leonardo UK Ltd at our site in Edinburgh.
The placement will assist overhead cost control of the Edinburgh cost base and complete various management reporting requirements. The role can accommodate custom working with a mixture of on-site (to conduct functional review meetings) and home working expected.
Process monthly accruals and prepayments and reconcile various cost overhead accounts- Provide information to the functions and support them in queries relating to expenditure of salary and controllable costs for their cost centres
- Regularly review and challenge the functions at face to face meetings with regards to their expenditure and forecasts for headcount, salary and controllable costs, seeking to ensure that all functions spend within their individual budgets
- Produce cost base and headcount reports for monthly management reporting purposes
- Provide input to the Integrated Business plan and annual budgets in relation to headcount, salary and controllable costs.
- Provide accurate and timely adhoc management information when required
Leonardo values their people and we reward commitment with a competitive remuneration and flexible benefits package including:
Competitive starting salary & relocation allowance (subject to eligibility)- Generous holiday entitlement and flexible working arrangements
- Contributory pension scheme
- Private healthcare options
- Employee discounts with selected suppliers (including gym membership)
- Discounted coffee bar & restaurants at each site
- Free on-site parking
To find out about all of our Company benefits please visit:
http://www.uk.leonardocompany.com/people-careers/people/company-benefits
What we are looking for
Mandatory
Please note that in order to apply for this opportunity you must be eligible for UK Security Clearance. Normally this is to the level of Security Check (typically known as “SC”) for our business which includes having a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in the UK.
Qualifications
All of our Industrial Placement roles require a minimum of a predicted 2:1 grade in a relevant degree discipline. For this vacancy, a degree such as Business, Finance or any numerical based subject is ideal if you are looking to gain work experience prior to completing academic studies.
You should be/have:
- Computer literate
- Able to work on own initiative
- Numerate
- Has a desire to learn new skills
Life at Leonardo
Discover life at Leonardo – a company for extraordinary people
Our UK locations
We have offices around the UK, including Basildon, Bristol, Edinburgh, Lincoln, Luton, Southampton and Yeovil
Committed to Inclusion
We are committed to creating a working environment that is designed to provide everyone with the opportunity to succeed.
Leonardo
https://uk.leonardo.com/
London, United Kingdom
Alessandro Profumo
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
5001 to 10000 Employees
Company - Public
Aerospace & Defence
1948