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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 flexibility 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 General Ledger Placement Student to join our team specializing in Finance for our Power Systems Business segment in UK, Daventry. 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 7 th July 2025.

Responsibilities

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

  • Working with various stakeholders and support multiple Power Systems markets, create networks and work with people from different cultures and backgrounds.
  • Supporting the team during the month end by preparing and uploading journals. Raising intercompany transactions.
  • Ensuring financial records comply with regulatory standards, reconcile and solve any issues relating to month end sales.
  • Prepare transaction register summary reports as well as prepare and distribute FX rates.
  • Reconcile bank transactions, prepare and submit VAT returns.
  • Updating price requests and maintain customer database, support annual audit and other financial professionals in their duties as needed.

Qualifications

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

  • Working towards a degree in preferably Finance/Accounting, Mathematics or Economics related although not limited to these subjects.
  • Strong analytical and Organizational skills.
  • Communications skills.
  • Ability to work with large amounts of data.

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, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, and/or expression or other status protected by law.