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Safran Hiring for Finance Assistant – 6 month FTC Job at London, England Full Time

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Job description

The Finance Assistant will supports the Finance team & wider company employees in preparation & reporting of Financial Statements, including Credit Control / Accounting / Controlling / Travel Management.

1. Controlling

  • Weekly Inventory reporting to business stakeholders.
  • Daily tracking of MRO report writing activity (warranty flags) & Time tracking activity.
  • Supporting bid work with business development including cost queries (adhoc)
  • New material creation & master data maintenance.
  • Supporting daily sales refreshes (OE, Spares & MRO) at a transactional level. Look for missed billings, especially on MRO.
  • Support Month end. Inventory WIP reporting & small number of journals including Ontic. Includes running orderbooks and Fracas extracts for month end reporting.

2. Accounting

  • Balance sheet reconciliations on specific accounts : training on the job provided
  • AR and AP master data analysis (duplicate accounts, errors, trading partner checks)
  • Fixed assets inventory: identifying and labelling assets, helping updating fixed assets register follow-up
  • Travel expenses conformity checks : analyse staff expenses claims, check compliance with internal policies, check provided back-up, liaise with operationals to resolve any issue, escalate to Manager when identifying issues, coordinate payment runs
  • Parked invoices : helped resolve parked invoices due to no good receipts, liaise with SSC AP team and operationals
  • Assist external audit campaign

3. Credit control :

  • support the credit control team in the cash collection, reporting (Chase customers, reconciling customer statements, assist with month end tasks, assist credit control team in ad-hoc queries)

  • Propose improvements of tools and processes within the Group.
  • Attend meetings and training at other locations as required.
  • Undertake any other duties as reasonably required within your competency.
  • Adhere to all Group policies and procedures.
  • Undertake any training and development activities at the request of your line manager.
  • Take care of your own safety and the safety of others at all times by complying with the Health & Safety Policy at all times
  • Represent the company in a professional manner at all times.


Job requirements

  • Graduate or equivalent
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Ability to problem solve
  • Good communication skills
  • Highly computer literate (Strong Excel skills a prerequisite, experience of Power BI, SAP an advantage)
  • Experience of working in a manufacturing environment an advantage
  • Good communication skills (both verbal and written) essential
  • Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
  • Good time management
  • Flexible “can-do” attitude and ability to work under own initiative


Specificity of the job

As required.

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defence and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 76,800 employees and sales of 15,3 billion euros in 2021 and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets. Safran undertakes research and development programs to maintain the environmental priorities of its R&T and innovation roadmap.

Safran was ranked as the world’s third best employer in its sector by Forbes magazine in 2021.

Safran Electrical & Power is one of the world’s leaders in aircraft electrical systems. The company is a key player in the equipment electrification and in the electric and hybrid propulsion sector. It has 11,500 employees across thirteen different countries.

Job Overview

  • ID: 293635
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  • Job Title: Safran Hiring for Finance Assistant – 6 month FTC Job at London, England