Finance Intern

Crane Company; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Druck Ltd designs and manufactures sensors and instrumentation with a large team at North West Leicestershire. As a Finance Intern in FP&A and Commercial Finance, you will be exposed to reporting mechanisms and key financial metrics while working with leaders across Finance to grow your knowledge and technical skills.

You will contribute to daily metric updates, variance analysis, and dashboard development, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to build your soft skills.

Qualifications

• Working towards a Degree or equivalent in Accounting & Finance.
• Solid understanding of core accounting principles (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow).
• Basic Excel functions (VLOOKUP, IF, PivotTables).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide daily updates on key financial metrics such as orders, sales and convertible orders.
• Perform variance analysis on orders and revenue for stakeholders.
• Produce Sales Price Index, Orders Price Index & Backlog Pricing reports.
• Analyze product contribution margin to support profitability decisions.
• Run Capital Expenditure Reporting across sites with insights on spend.
• Collaborate with Global Services to analyze weekly sales and cost performance.
• Maintain and develop Power BI dashboards for commercial reporting.
• Perform ad hoc finance tasks as requested.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Verbal and written communication

Time management

Microsoft Office knowledge

Education

Accounting & Finance degree in progress

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Druck - Finance Intern

Druck Ltd design and manufacture a range of sensors and instrumentation products that are utilised in a vast array of market segments. We have a Team of 600 employees on our site in North West Leicestershire. As an intern in the Mechanical Design team, you'll find yourself in a dynamic, goal-oriented environment, working with the newest and most innovative technologies in the energy industry.

Our pressure sensors and instrumentation products are market leaders across the globe. Whether you're flying in the stratosphere, drilling on the sea bed, or somewhere in between, Druck has the sensor technology our customers trust.

Your ideas and expertise will enhance our business. All of our sensors and instrument products are developed in house, and you'll be exposed to the whole development lifecycle, as well as getting the buzz of seeing your products manufactured and sold to our customers.

With a desire to attract a range of interns who value varied team work and being challenged in technical problem solving, we are offering an attractive salary & benefits package and development opportunities.

For further information see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwp3X5TGpfw

Essential Functions (Responsibilities):

As a finance intern, you will gain exposure to a range of FP&A, Commercial Finance & Supply Chain Finance related activities. You will have the opportunity to work with leaders across these areas of Finance to develop your knowledge base and technical skills to help enhancing reporting mechanisms, and providing timely insights to key financial metrics. As a finance intern, you will have the opportunity to connect with cross functional leaders outside of finance to develop your soft skills.

• Provide daily updates on key financial metrics such as orders, sales and convertible orders metrics for the Druck business
• Perform variance analysis on orders and revenue for key functional stakeholders, helping to explain changes in product mix vs. plan and vs. prior periods
• Produce the Sales Price Index, Orders Price Index & Backlog Pricing metric reports to help business product line leaders make informed decisions regarding price/discount decisions
• Product contribution margin analytics to support product profitability performance analysis - Helping to make decisions on pricing, discounts and also new product development
• Run the Capital Expenditure Reporting Analysis for the Druck business (across multiple sites), which clearly tracks the running spend vs. plan - Clearly providing insights on over/under spend on multiple running projects
• Collaborate with the Druck Global Services leader to provide weekly analysis on sales and cost performance across multiple global service centres
• Maintain and develop multiple Power BI dashboards for commercial reporting analytics
• Perform various other adhoc finance tasks as requested

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Working towards a Degree or equivalent qualification in Accounting & Finance
• Basic knowledge of Excel functionalities such as VLOOKUP, IF Functions & Pivot Tables
• A solid understanding of core Accounting principles such as double entry, P&L structure, balance sheet and cash flow statement

• Strong analytical & practical problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience.

• Good people and time management skills
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Software packages (Word, Excel, Power point etc)
• Proven ability to work to deadlines and respond effectively to requests