Placement Student- Plant Finance

Cummins Europe

The Role

Overview

Finance placement handling accounting, invoicing, month‑end and supplier processes at Cummins plant.

Key Responsibilities

  • supplier payments
  • customer invoicing
  • stakeholder liaison
  • community engagement

Tasks

-Responsible for ensuring suppliers are paid on time by resolving invoice discrepancies, answering queries, and reconciling statements. -Liaising with other Cummins entities and other functions across the plant to effectively resolve queries. -Collaborative work with students across the site to complete cross functional community engagement projects. -Responsible for customer invoicing, ensuring invoices are accurate, raised timely and compliant with business controls.

Requirements

  • month-end
  • accounting
  • excel
  • zoom
  • teams
  • degree

What You Bring

-Ownership of certain month end journals, reconciliations and processes -Working towards a degree in Accounting, Finance, or related subject -Excellent IT Skills, in particular Excel and Microsoft -Competent in using collaboration tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams.

Benefits

-Opportunity to manage projects within the finance function and implement improvement initiatives. -Opportunity to work within different accounting areas depending on business requirements.

The Company

About Cummins Europe

-The company has 17 manufacturing sites across Europe, establishing itself as a leading power solutions provider. -Engineers and manufactures advanced diesel, gas, and electric engines, power generation systems, and drivetrains for global markets. -Specializes in powering buses, trucks, marine vessels, and military vehicles, exemplified by projects from Darlington to Krakow. -Operates a unique European test facility in Darlington that develops fuel-agnostic powertrains, including hydrogen-capable combustion engines. -Delivers expertise across industrial, transport, marine, mining, energy, and defence sectors, offering both new builds and remanufactured power solutions.

Sector Specialisms

Automotive

Agriculture

Power Generation

Marine

Industrial

Rail

Mining

Fuel Cell Technology

Electrolyser Equipment