Finance Placement

by NATS

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Deadline: 29th December 2017
Salary: £17,500
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Aeronautical & Aerospace Engineering, Banking, Data Science, Financial Management
Location: South East
City: Fareham, Hampshire

About NATS

Nats is the leading Air Navigation Service Provider in the UK, providing air traffic control services for more than 6000 movements a day in the UK airspace and North Atlantic.

People working at NATS have long and rewarding careers. You can benefit from top of the range training and training facilities and advanced technology, along with a great benefits and an open collaborative working environment. We are also a friendly bunch, You can enjoy a wide variety of sports and social clubs, discounts on events ranging from air shows to theatre, and we encourage our people to network and get together whenever possible. There is even an on-site gym at our larger sites and subsidised canteen.

Finance Placement

NATS is offering an opportunity for an Industrial Placement within the Commercial Finance team. The team is accountable for accounting, monitoring and forecasting the performance of NATS’ commercial activities. NATS’ Commercial activities turnover c£220m per annum and employ c.1,000 staff.

The finance team work very closely with all levels of management to provide insight, guidance and analysis to support NATS’ commercial performance and growth aspirations.



The role will offer broad financial and commercial experience working in the day to day activities of the finance team. The successful candidate will also be given regular responsibilities within the team; including preparation of financial results, generating analysis and reports for departments and transactional processing within NATS’ SAP system.

Qualifications and Skills



Applicants should be studying for a degree with a specific focus on business, finance or accounting where there is a strong commercial focus and be competent in MS Office application.



Personal qualities required include excellent literacy and numeracy skills, self-confidence, an enthusiastic and positive approach, and the ability to both work as part of a team and to communicate effectively at all levels. The candidate should be well organised, self-motivated and able to take responsibility for their own workload including planning and prioritising to meet deadlines.



Although no specific experience is required, applicants should provide details of any work experience to date, together with the relevant personal qualities they have developed through extra-curricular activities.

How to apply:

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Your application needs to include your CV and a covering letter which must include answers to the following questions:




    1. What do you is the key information a business will require from its finance department?


    2. What behaviours would you associate with a high performing finance department?


    3. What key financial factors do you think have an impact on NATS’ Commercial activities?

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