Finance Placement (12.5 months)

Job Description:

Start date: 18th August 2025

Location: Broughton, North Wales (please note that a similar position is available in our Filton plant)

Duration: 12.5 months

Application closing date: We encourage you to apply early to avoid missing out on this opportunity! Please note we will close adverts as soon as we receive sufficient applications.

Benefits:

Salary: 21,900

35 hours per week // Flexible working hours // Half day Fridays! // 25 days holiday plus bank holiday

About us:

Airbus is a forward thinking, high-flying and dynamic business, paving the way for the future of the aerospace industry. We are a driving force for innovation, working towards achieving a sustainable future. When you join the Airbus Finance Internship Scheme we recognise the importance of supporting high-achieving and talented undergraduates. We do this through offering challenging internship opportunities during which your skills and potential are fully maximised.

The Internship scheme within Finance at Airbus will provide you with a fantastic start to your career. The internship will give you the opportunity to gain hands-on financial experience within a manufacturing industry as well as develop professional behavioural skills such as leadership, organisational, presentation and communication skills. You will also be given an insight into working in a challenging, fast-paced environment with real responsibilities. As an intern you are treated as a full employee and given as much support as you may need to ensure that the transition from university to working life is smooth.

At Airbus there is a solid mix of youth and experience, with a large number of interns, graduates and apprentices on-site as well as well-experienced professionals to help guide your career from both a technical and behavioural perspective, to ensure you develop as fully as possible during the time with us and maximise your potential. You are able to build a wide network made up of people with a range of experience levels and who work in all different areas of the business.

There is the opportunity to get involved in activities outside of your role such as organising charity events, Generation Airbus and local team social events, showing the local community around the site and leading your own projects. 

Airbus encourages a healthy work life balance through flexi-time and a Friday half-day, ensuring positive wellbeing. There is also the potential to be fast-tracked onto the Finance Graduate Scheme, dependent on strong, exceptional internship performance. This will give you the chance to join the Airbus family long term, living and working around Europe in numerous placements whilst studying for your CIMA qualifications.

What you will be doing: 

In Broughton, Airbus is responsible for manufacturing wings that are then transported to the Final Assembly Lines around Europe. Therefore the Finance team in Broughton is responsible for preparing budgets, cost reports and forecasts for each wing type, to support the wing production in Broughton. As a member of the team, you are able to see the wings in production around the factory and see the Beluga flying in and out several times a day to transport wings which is an amazing sight!

During your internship in Broughton, some of the activities you may be involved in include:

• Financial reporting: preparing reports to look at actual costs and revenues in the month;

• Updating forecast models;

• Liaising with the Finance community and the Business Operations teams - key stakeholder management skills;

• Supporting projects aimed at continuous improvement to make the business more efficient/sustainable;

• Labour efficiency and effectivity analysis & reporting;

• Posting monthly accruals and journals;

• Risk and Opportunity reporting;

• Engagement in team building activities, assisting in Charity Challenge and helping to organise team events as required.

During your internship you will gain an insight into how a large, multinational company works and how your role connects to the overall strategy of the company. You’ll gain excellent working experience of financial concepts such as reporting, forecasting and budgeting. You will also quickly strengthen your softer skills and personal self-development such as organisational skills, leadership, autonomy, proactivity and team working. Airbus challenges you as much as possible for you to realise your full potential and to grow significantly over the internship.

Requirements:

Our placements are open to Undergraduates only. Therefore it is mandatory for candidates to be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement. Please inform your graduation date on your application.

Please ensure you include your CV and a cover letter for your application to be considered.

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

• ​Studying towards a degree in Finance, Accounting, or equivalent (must have completed a minimum of 2 years);

• Good understanding of Google Suite and its applications, i.e. Sheets, Slides, Docs, or their MS Office equivalents;

• Strong teamwork skills;

• Ability to work autonomously on own initiative;

• Good interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written;

• Drive to develop yourself and others;

• Logical and analytical approach to problem solving;

• Curious to understand why and the bigger picture;

• Ability to explain accounting concepts to Non Finance;

• Ability to work in accordance with tight deadlines and maintain quality of output.

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance OR You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check). 

Contact:

Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments. Examples of this may include (but is not exclusive to) accessible facilities; additional time for written exercises; auxiliary aids; room layout; dietary requirements etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

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Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom&64;airbus.com.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.